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My Appearance on PBS’ The Open Mind Show
Appearing on The Open Mind to discuss my book was a huge honor! Host Alexander Heffner asked me about The Stronger Sex: What the Science Tells Us About the Power of the Female Body – but we also got into a bit of a political convo too, which was interesting. Especially proud as Alexander’s show is hosted…
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“Your BMI Can’t Tell You Much About Your Health, Here’s What Can” for New Scientist
It’s always exciting to have a cover story! The 14 February issue of New Scientist featured my story debunking BMI and sharing a variety of alternatives to that measure that’s so flawed, The Lancet special commission on obesity called it out as being problematic. LOVE to be in print!
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The Stronger Sex Named a Best Science Book of 2025 – Twice!
Both Library Journal (the publication for libraries and librarians that helps them pick books AKA the realest readers!) and the Next Big Idea Club named my book, The Stronger Sex as Best Books of 2025. Love that the Library Journal is called “Stellar Selections” as stellar of course means “relating to a star” and…. that’s…
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“The Fight to Change Women’s Sports Uniforms” for CNN
This piece, my first-ever for CNN Sports, came out of a pitch related to my book, The Stronger Sex, that didn’t quite work out in another iteration many months back. So I retooled the focus to put it on the worldwide phenomenon of sports uniforms and how most of them aren’t made for female athlete’s…
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Interview with Me in The Open Notebook
So happy to end the year on such a positive note with this interview feature in the prestigious The Open Notebook site, an incredible resource for science journalists or any journalist who covers health, animals, environment, etc. I so appreciated that Skyler Ware asked such smart questions about how I reported around the dearth of…
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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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