Piller outlines the structural pressures that can lead to flawed or misleading research, from “publish or perish” incentives to the concentration of authority within funding agencies, journals, and ...

My place serves more as a free hostel than as a one-on-one guided tour of the city.” People make a request for your couch by ...

I do not want to grow old in the society that exists today. To be alive is to age, yet most humans are deeply uncomfortable ...

Science has an isolation problem. I tend to think of scientists as contentedly living on a deserted island, where we’ve ...

In San Francisco, eviction notices are usually discussed as legal disputes or housing market statistics. For the families ...

While other people have been achieving publications and awards, the highlight of my PhD so far is achieving the unthinkable - learning how to extract the components of human stool that glow under UV ...

Curandera tradicional Maria Ruiz Mendoza braids her hair every morning to honor the ancestral healing practices of her Zapotec Indigenous ancestors. Through braiding, she embodies intergenerational ...

This squirrel was happily munching on the green shrubbery growing along the coastline. The tips of these plants were a mix of green, red, and yellow. The squirrel kept picking up a new plant and ...

The month of March is notorious for political surprises. On the “Ides of March” Caesar was stabbed in the Roman Senate. On ...

Monotropa uniflora, also known as the ghost plant or ghost pipe, emerges from the forest undergrowth in Aokigahara Forest near Mount Fuji. A favorite plant of the poet Emily Dickinson, this ...

Paradise base area during the middle of summer 2024. We had an exceptionally clear day and were able to see several nearby volcanoes, including Mt Adams which is pictured. I hustled to frame these two ...

Another week, you got this. Keep it up. You can do it. It will be a great day. You will be great. Breathe, and let go. Ok, I got this. Let’s do it. We can do it. Breathe, and let go. Breathe, and ...