Interview: Did Scientists and the Media Get Covid All Wrong?
March 7, 2025 by Sara Talpos In March and April of 2020, more than 50,000 people in the United States died from the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2. Doctors were forced to…
Book Review: The Neurological Roots of ‘Sinful’ Behavior
February 7, 2025 by Emily Cataneo James was in his late 30s and weighed more than 500 pounds when he fell in the bathroom and found himself wedged between the…
We Need Greenland. But Not in the Way Trump Thinks.
January 23, 2025 by Paul Bierman Donald Trump has a thing for Greenland. First, he wanted to buy the Arctic island. Then, his son visited for a photo-op. Now, he…
Book Review: How Much Do Animals Think About Death?
January 3, 2025 by Dan Falk Our relationship with death is a complex one. At an intellectual level, we understand our mortality, yet we go to great lengths to banish…
Podcast: Cannabis and Severe Mental Health Disorders
December 2, 2024 by The Editors Welcome to Entanglements. In this episode, hosts Brooke Borel and Anna Rothschild ask: Is cannabis safe for people with severe mental health disorders? The…
In Genetic Data, Gaps That Affect Indigenous Communities
October 2, 2024 by Claudia López Lloreda When Andres Moreno-Estrada began studying genetics back in the early 2000s, the high cost of sequencing DNA was the biggest barrier to understanding…
The Fuzzy Science on Whether Fido Is Actually Good for You
June 24, 2024 by Michael Schulson For more than a decade, in blog posts and scientific papers and public talks, the psychologist Hal Herzog has questioned whether owning pets makes…