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Incredible Feedback from Stronger Sex Readers!
Image by Bianca Nogrady, a science journalist and a reader of the book. Hi Ms. Vartan, I just wanted to say that I discovered your new book “The Stronger Sex” in one of my local bookstores over the summer and after reading it I can confidently say that I learned SO much about female bodies…
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“Women have supercharged immune systems and we now know why” for New Scientist
My newest feature (which they pubbed w/out telling me, doh) for New Scientist is all about why and how women’s immune systems are so badass (there’s also a sidebar abt testosterone’s immune-dampening effects too.) It’s important to understand how hormones affect immune function in order to diagnose and create right treatments, including vaccines. Here’s how the piece…
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Interview with Me on the Australian Broadcasting Company (ABC)!
Well this is exciting! I was so honored to be interviewed on The Science Show with the redoubtable Robyn Williams of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)! Really proud of this one; something about being interviewed by someone with 50 years’ experience in broadcast brought out my best. I met up with Robyn at his home…
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Pregnancy and Endurance Athletics for CNN
In my latest piece for CNN Health, I wrote about how female bodies are built for endurance, a topic I covered in great detail in my book. For this piece, I expanded upon how that basic physiology has been ignored, especially in female athletes, who have been detrained when they followed the extremely conservative advice…
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Does AI Need a Body to Get Truly Intelligent? For New Atlas
I really did a lot of deep thinking both pitching and writing this piece for New Atlas, where I was given a wide remit in how to cover this topic by editor Rich Haridy. I talked to Chinese soft robotics experts, AI researchers, and one of the pioneers of robotics, Cecilia Laschi (quoted below), and…
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Science-led Startup Twelve for Nature Index
A truly inspiring article and my first for Nature Index. I covered the details of the technology behind the startup Twelve, which is doing some incredibly advanced work converting captured carbon dioxide from an ethanol facility to make critical chemicals. Namely, airplane fuels. This is the kind of work that may help humanity avoid the…
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New Book Debut: July 15th 2025
Preorder Now: My new book, The Stronger Sex: What Science Tells Us About the Power of the Female Body available on the Hachette site and at bookshop.org. Available July 15th, 2025 A myth-busting vindication of women’s physical strengths For decades, Starre Vartan–like most women–was told that having a woman’s body meant being weaker than men.…
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For National Geographic: Why Older Women Should Lift Heavy Weights
Proud that my first published piece of 2024 is this one for National Geographic about how older women can and should lift heavy weights to grow bone that was lost via osteoporosis. And also why starting lifting and getting stronger bone pre-menopause could stop bone weakness issues before they start. This information directly informed my…
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More Audio Adventures for SciAm: My Latest Podcast All About Puget Sound Kelp Forests!
Image Via Wikimedia Commons by Oliver Dodd I took my brand-new sound recorder out for a spin (more like a crash-course in recording in situ) at the shore of the Strait of Juan de Fuca to speak with Anne Shaffer about her new research on how salmon do indeed use kelp forests—and explored why these…
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