The Mob, Vegas, and Tea

Most recently, I wrote an article, in which I interviewed Chris Mooney--author of Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future.

Mooney and his co-author Sheril Kirshenbaum explore how America has changed--becoming a place much less into science than it should be in order to prepare for a hyper-scientific future.

They write: "Americans built the bomb, reached the moon, decoded the genome, and created the Internet. And yet today this country is also home to a populace that, to an alarming extent, ignores scientific advances or outright rejects scientific principles."

Check out the entire interview here:
Bringing science back into America's sphere

I recently watched and wrote about a documentary about young people who are coping with the fact they have cancer at a tender age. Ranging from 19 to 29 years old, the subjects talk about their strategies for dealing with terminal illness. The film is called 'Chasing Rainbows' and I recommend it to anyone who has a friend in a similar situation. What is most striking about the film is that the entire group, for the most part, is positive about their lives--despite chemo, hair loss, and an unknown future.

A very hot topic in the news recently has been gender and sexuality. There couldn't be a better book to explain all the shades of gray. 'Between XX and XY: Intersexuality and the Myth of the Two Sexes' by Gerald Callahan sheds much needed light on a complicated topic. I reviewed the book for the Times.

Here are the full stories:
"Film: 'Chasing Rainbows' looks at young people living with cancer"

"Between XX and XY:Intersexuality and the Myth of the Two Sexes" by Gerald Callahan"