“Late sleepers are tired of being discriminated against. And science has their back.”

“most striking to me wasn’t the health implications of messing with your clock. It was the stigma late sleepers feel in a society ruled by early risers. Simply put: These late sleepers…

“Stop Being a Freak and Just Look at Your Phone”

“Like one time I went to a San Francisco meditation class and some guy kept making passive aggressive requests that began “I would be grateful if…” Later, when he inevitably got into an argument, the guy kept saying the word “humbly,” as in “I…

“The science myths that will not die”

“This blind faith in cancer screening is an example of how ideas about human biology and behaviour can persist among people — including scientists — even though the scientific evidence shows the concepts to be false. “Scientists think they’re too objective to…

“Einstein v. Roberts”

“Issues related to race in the United States have created barriers since the nation’s founding, determining which citizens experience benefits, and which deprivations. This problem is not new for physicists. Albert Einstein’s essay “The Negro Question” includes “What…can the man of good…

“When Teamwork Doesn’t Work for Women”

“While women in the field publish as much as men, they are twice as likely to perish. And this higher rate for women being denied tenure persists even after accounting for differences in tenure rates across universities, the different subfields of economics that…

“The problem with a technology revolution designed primarily for men”

““Tell the agents, ‘I had a heart attack,’ and they know what heart attacks are, suggesting what to do to find immediate help. Mention suicide and all four will get you to a suicide hotline,” explains the…

“Looming question for medical students: Will they be shut out of advanced training?”

“Missouri, Kansas, and Arkansas have passed laws to allow unmatched graduates to work in medically underserved areas without doing a residency.
Otherwise, “a lot end up wasting all of…

“WHO DISRUPTS THE DISRUPTORS? WE NEED TO CHANGE THE WAY WE TALK ABOUT INNOVATION”

“The culture of disruption’s American Dream 2.0 — where you can both be the man and claim to be sticking it to him — glosses over the fact that the type of innovation venerated by disruption…

“Imagining Climate: How science fiction holds up a mirror to our future”

“Imagination is what speculative and science fiction have to offer in the conversation about climate change. It’s not that climate change is a figment of a possible future, but that its deep infiltration…

“We Suck (But We Can Be Better)”

“there are issues here that aren’t just about men and women; they’re about what kind of culture we have in academia generally, science in particular, and physics/astronomy especially. Not only did these things happen, but they happened over an extended period of time…