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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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Health Storytelling at Emory University
I had a wonderful conversation with renown journalist Maryn McKenna, as a part of the Emory University Health Storytelling series. It was livestreamed and is also available to watch in the YouTube video above.
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How Breastfeeding Prevents Breast Cancer for Nature
In my first piece for Nature, I was assigned an embargoed study (it hadn’t published yet) and had to put this story together over a weekend. I was able to speak with a principal researcher, Shirene Loi as she was on her way to Berlin for the prestigious ESMO conference, where she was presenting her…
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Not Every Women’s Midlife Health Issue is Perimenopause for New Scientist
The first of a couple of feature stories based on my book for New Scientist, this piece analyzes how both doctors and patients can make assumptions about healthcare for women in midlife. While it’s wonderful that perimenopause and menopause are receiving some (VERY!) long overdue attention, there’s also some pretty serious bandwagoning going on, with…
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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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