Extra Links for Lectures

As conservative hysteria over LGBTQ "grooming" dominated the national conversation, a different sexual misconduct crisis was playing out in hundreds of schools nationwide.

As young Americans turn to TikTok for information on mental health, the T.H. Chan School of Public Health at Harvard is building its own team of influencers.

The discovery could lead to better treatments for severe nausea and vomiting during pregnancy.

I started thinking about killing myself when I was 3 or 4 years old. I've tried nine times. This is why I'm still here.

Research suggests that conditions in the workplace might be to blame.

How a scandal-plagued health care giant profits off a failing child welfare system.

"This means if someone dies while being restrained in custody ... people can’t point to excited delirium as the reason."

People who've been there before share their reasons for staying alive.

Dr. Katalin Karikó devoted her career to understanding—and evangelizing—the possibilities of mRNA. When the pandemic struck, her unheralded work became the basis for the world’s most effective vaccines.

Dan Ariely and Francesca Gino became famous for their research into why we bend the truth. Now they’ve both been accused of fabricating data.

Some neurosurgeons are testing an acrylic prosthesis that lets them peer into patients’ heads with ultrasound.

How eugenics captured the young conservative movement

(and Other Hard Truths about Journal Prestige)

One call to a harm reduction/overdose hotline, and everything that followed.

From lying about evidence to implying leniency in exchange for a confession.

Inside the soul-crushing, morally bankrupt, top-secret world of our most powerful consulting firm.

Few scenes are as emblematic of the barbarism of American capitalism as the now-routine “sweeps” in which police round up homeless people and destroy their belongings. By some estimates, it would be cheaper to just provide them with housing.

The Smithsonian’s human brains collection was led by Ales Hrdlicka, a museum curator in the 1900s who believed that White people were superior.

Anthony Gibson said his TikTok videos show “what people like me have to go through when they live in a nice neighborhood.”

Psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk’s once controversial theory of trauma became the dominant way we make sense of our lives.

A linguistics professor found that even Miamians who aren’t fluent in Spanish use or understand phrases that are direct translations.

Everyday tiredness is nothing like the depleting symptom that people with long COVID and ME/CFS experience.

Small studies suggest that psilocybin, the psychoactive compound in magic mushrooms, may reduce the severity of eating disorders and increase people’s motivation to recover from the condition

It might feel like rocket science, but scientists need to get better at explaining things to people outside academia.

Effectively relating science to the public is a science in itself, and expertise on a topic doesn't guarantee expertise in explaining it.

Multiple sclerosis was once seen as a “dead-end disease.” But lots of little interventions have added up to remarkable progress. Should that change how we take on other conditions?

Unlike in adults, suicide risk among children is lowest during the summer and higher during the school year. Understanding these patterns can help prevent and treat suicidality

This progressive neurodegenerative disorder robs us of our memories. Doctors detail the 6 stages of Alzheimer's disease, to aid in early detection.

Black women in Latin America, the Caribbean and the United States are more likely than their white counterparts to report denial of medication or physical and verbal abuse in health care settings.

Health equity experts say public and financial accountability, solutions-based research, political will and more are needed to narrow racial health disparities.