Whisper networks[1] are informal channels that women use to warn each other about sexual harassment, abuse or assault. The reason they work isn’t because they are secret – they work because they are contextual.
The informal protective communication shared
An antibiotic discovered on Easter Island in 1964 sparked a billion-dollar pharmaceutical success story. Yet the history told about this “miracle drug” has completely left out the people and politics that made its discovery possible.
Named after the
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If you were lucky 74,000 years ago, you would have survived the Toba supereruption[1], one of the largest catastrophic events that Earth has seen in the past 2.5 million years.
While the volcano is located in what’s now Indonesia, living organisms across
For athletes across all sports, few experiences are as agonizing as being forced to leave competition with a sudden muscle cramp. These painful, uncontrolled spasms – formally known as exercise-associated muscle cramps[1] – have frustrated athletes, coaches
In “The Singularity is Nearer: When We Merge with AI[1],” the futurist Ray Kurzweil[2] imagines the point in 2045 when rapid technological progress crosses a threshold as humans merge with machines, an event he calls “the singularity.”
Although
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