Anterior Cervical Discectomy & Fusion (ACDF) or, My Big Bike Crash and Surgical Adventure
On July 26 I had a nasty cycling crash. I’m fond of telling people that cycling is a low-impact sport, unless you impact the ground, which...
Read MoreAnterior Cervical Discectomy & Fusion (ACDF) or, My Big Bike Crash and Surgical Adventure
On July 26 I had a nasty cycling crash. I’m fond of telling people that cycling is a low-impact sport, unless you impact the ground, which...
Read MoreConspiracies & Conspiracy Theories: What We Should and Shouldn’t Believe—and Why
Audible Inc., the world’s largest producer and provider of downloadable audiobooks and other spoken-word entertainment, in conjunction...
Read MoreConspiracies & Conspiracy Theories: What We Should and Shouldn’t Believe—and Why
Audible Inc., the world’s largest producer and provider of downloadable audiobooks and other spoken-word entertainment, in conjunction...
Read MoreStein’s Law and Science’s Mission
The case for scientific humanism This column was first published in the January 2019 issue of Scientific American. In the April 2001 issue...
Read MoreStein’s Law and Science’s Mission
The case for scientific humanism This column was first published in the January 2019 issue of Scientific American. In the April 2001 issue...
Read MoreKids These Days
A looming crisis and how to avert it This column was first published in the December 2018 issue of Scientific American. Something is amiss...
Read MoreKids These Days
A looming crisis and how to avert it This column was first published in the December 2018 issue of Scientific American. Something is amiss...
Read MoreThe Fallacy of Excluded Exceptions
Why the singular of “data” is not “anecdote” This column was first published in the November 2018 issue of Scientific American. For a...
Read MoreThe Fallacy of Excluded Exceptions
Why the singular of “data” is not “anecdote” This column was first published in the November 2018 issue of Scientific American. For a...
Read MoreA Mysterious Change of Mind
Why do people die by suicide? This column was first published in the October 2018 issue of Scientific American. Anthony Bourdain (age 61)....
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Why do people die by suicide? This column was first published in the October 2018 issue of Scientific American. Anthony Bourdain (age 61)....
Read MoreAbortion Facts
Education and birth control are slowly making the politics less relevant In May of this year the pro-life/pro-choice controversy leapt...
Read MoreAbortion Facts
Education and birth control are slowly making the politics less relevant In May of this year the pro-life/pro-choice controversy leapt...
Read More23 and We
The limitations of personal genome service testing Like a lot of baby boomers, I find myself gravitating to newspaper obits,...
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The limitations of personal genome service testing Like a lot of baby boomers, I find myself gravitating to newspaper obits,...
Read MoreThe Final Mysterians
Are consciousness, free will and God insoluble mysteries? In 1967 British biologist and Nobel laureate Sir Peter Medawar famously...
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Are consciousness, free will and God insoluble mysteries? In 1967 British biologist and Nobel laureate Sir Peter Medawar famously...
Read MoreSoul-Searching
Google as a window into our private thoughts What are the weirdest questions you’ve ever Googled? Mine might be (for my latest book): “How...
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Google as a window into our private thoughts What are the weirdest questions you’ve ever Googled? Mine might be (for my latest book): “How...
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