TV Golden Age – Writers Face Severe Health Problems and Stress
TV Golden Age A hospital stay may be an extreme manifestation of the stresses of the TV writing life, but...
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New Civil War – Charlottesville and the Trouble with Civil War Hypotheticals
New Civil War Jelani Cobb is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of “The Substance of Hope:...
Male Infertility – Researching a Taboo Topic – Why Some Men “Shoot Blanks”
Male Infertility By ISABEL TEOTONIOLiving reporter Sat., Aug. 12, 2017 Daren and Joanne Herbert tried for six years to have...
Gerrymandering – Maths To Reduce Unfairness in the US Election System
Gerrymandering Moon Duchin, an associate professor of mathematics and a Tisch senior fellow, started the Metric Geometry and Gerrymandering...
Henry Waxman – Finding solace in ugliness – can homeliness pay?
Henry Waxman In jobs where there’s a premium on looking good, if you see a funny-looking person there, they’ve...
Alexey Kondrashov – What if Sex Is Just a Garbage Dump for Genetic Mutations?
Alexey Kondrashov When researchers looked at the DNA of a human population, the mutation rate taught them something about the...
