Confronting the Breast Cancer Mammography Dilemma
How to balance the risk of missing a cancerous tumor with the risk of treating — at substantial human cost — …
Why people keep writing “Gene for X” cowflop nonsense
I love this post at Genotopia. The ever-interesting Nathaniel Comfort reviews the usual frustrations about “gene for X” thinking, cites a few …
Watch NutJob Downhillers Almost Completely Out of Control
The clip above comes via a wonderful Nick Paumgarten post at The New Yorker. As Paumgarten notes, it’s rare that film or …
Tiger Parenting “a very exciting way to understand studying and piano lessons”.
To Joshua Rothman, over at The New Yorker, “The Triple Package” might not be convincing as an argument about “the rise and …
Bach Was a Bad Bad Boy
The thin documentary trail left by J.S. Bach, this rich review of a new biography notes, means that biographies of this peerless composer, …
Can Art Sell Climate Change?
“The wonky predictions of scientists affect everyone,” asserts this short film from The Economist — but can art convey that better than …