Extra Links for Lectures

Mothers were reported after they were given medications used routinely for pain or in epidurals, to reduce anxiety or to manage blood pressure during cesarean sections.

Retirees are mobilizing to defend democracy—and the benefits literally show up in their DNA.

A classic book on UFO believers and their "cognitive dissonance" after aliens failed to land is called into question.

Denmark and Greenland agree to investigate traumatising birth control procedures on Inuit Greenlanders.

The Danish government has banned the use of parental competency tests, known as FKUs, on Greenlandic families after decades of criticism.

The science he helped pioneer consistently undermines his view that genes determine everything about us.

“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”

The Times tested the blast waves of several popular civilian guns at an indoor range and found that repeated firing could add up to potentially harmful exposure.

With cameras down their throats, metal singers show how they produce growls, screams, and squeals without damaging their vocal tissues.

New research shows how AI tools is making a Dunning-Kruger specimen out of everyone that uses them, no matter how smart.

A campaign against teachers who acknowledge realities of human biology forces a choice: Teach truth and risk your job, or lie and maybe keep it.

Do police interrogation techniques produce false confessions?

Over 21 days of talking with ChatGPT, an otherwise perfectly sane man became convinced that he was a real-life superhero. We analyzed the conversation.

The St. Louis socioeconomic and racial dividing line known as the Delmar Divide separates people, and new research suggests it also segregates wildlife.

When the extent of the university’s involvement with slavery was unearthed, a scholar tracking descendants of enslaved workers was suddenly fired

People experiencing "ChatGPT psychosis" are being involuntarily committed to mental hospitals and jailed following AI mental health crises.

Marriages and families are falling apart as people are sucked into fantasy worlds of spiritual prophecy by AI tools like OpenAI's ChatGPT

Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change.

The Pew Research Center looked at Americans' ability to identify factual statements as opposed to opinion statements. Success rates varied significantly, they found — and partisan bias played a role.

Patients with difficult-to-diagnose conditions like endometriosis are often sent home with diagnoses like anxiety or bipolar disorder

Manvir Singh reviews “Adaptable: How Your Unique Body Really Works and Why Our Biology Unites Us,” by Herman Pontzer, and considers the hidden cost of pediatric growth charts and other universal benchmarks in medicine and public health.

President Trump falsely claimed that Biden spent $8 million on 'making mice transgender,' but the real research was for human health.

The senator flagged thousands of National Science Foundation grants for using words like “female” and “diversify.” A ProPublica analysis found numerous examples of projects caught up in his crude method for identifying research he calls “woke.”

Doug Whitney was supposed to develop Alzheimer's by 50. Now scientists are trying to understand why his brain remains healthy at 75.

Researchers find that the more people use AI at their job, the less critical thinking they use.

The 33-year-old told Newsweek that she wasn't taken seriously, despite suffering from one major warning sign.

A host of factors figure into whether someone is female, male or somewhere in between

The farms will "reparent" them.

Facebook now allows attacks on immigrants and trans people, and posts like “Mexican immigrants are trash!” and “I’m a proud racist.”

The documents confirm Latino civil rights pioneers' long-held suspicions about surveillance.