Science & Technology

Equipping Educators for the Age of Artificial Intelligence

According to a recent survey conducted by the Cengage Group and Bay View Analytics, a mere 16% of educators feel…

Every day is Groundhog Day in the humanities

This time of year, a lot of people watch, or re-watch, the 1993 film Groundhog Day. TV…

OpenAI’s Lack of Gender Diversity on its Corporate Board Could Be an Existential Threat to Humanity

Sam Altman was recently fired as CEO of OpenAI by a board of directors that…

What Senator Cory Booker gets wrong about Black people and AI

Recently, Senator Cory Booker sat down with tech insiders to discuss equity, discrimination, and Blackness, as…

ChatGPT for therapy? Houston, we have a problem

The US Space Force has clamped down on its use of ChatGPT, citing security concerns and the…

Girls should be free to make messes and keep the science tidy

This October, astronomy enthusiasts in the northern hemisphere can spot a comet first seen by Pierre…

Ed Tech in the Post-Pandemic Times

I teach graduate education students on how to integrate educational technology in their future classrooms.…

Think Before You Spit: DNA Testing Can Disrupt Mature Families

In midlife, I suddenly became a middle child.  Two years ago, our parents sat my younger…

Calling all women in STEM: Let’s more consciously create and use our networks!

As an East Asian (Korean) woman in academic medicine, I am not statistically underrepresented, but there…

Medicine – Going Where It Has Never Gone Before.

In the Star Trek Voyager TV series, the ship’s doctor was a hologram devised by…

Toward curing cancer: What you must know as a patient about shared decision making

A new cancer treatment using a patient’s own immune system is effective even for malignant…

The dangers of social media filters for teen’s mental health

With the click of a computer key or smartphone app, anyone can erase their skin…

Science is Not Lying to You

The appearance of Omicron as the newest variant of COVID-19 is likely to further increase…

The Fight isn’t Over, Keep Going: Practicing Disability Justice in an Under-Vaccinated Nation.

“Everyone should get it for herd immunity.” “Masks don’t really work, they just make people…

Are We Facing a New Era of Medical Science? mRNA-Based Therapies beyond the Covid-19 Vaccines

I am a high school student who has been living the highs and lows of…