Shocking the brain with electricity may bring to mind electroconvulsive therapy or James Whale鈥檚 seminal black-and-white adaptation of Frankenstein. But given that our brain cells use electricity...
As Robert F. Kennedy Jr. throws his hat in the latest American presidential race, it would be easy to confine his bad ideas to the label 鈥渁nti-vaccine.鈥� He is, after all, the founder and chairman...
Monster stories, like roller coasters, allow us to safely experience one of our most intense emotions: fear. The existence of vampires can alleviate our dread at the thought of dying, while...
As medicine uses more and more complex tools to treat illness, I worry that these newer interventions will be seen as impenetrable black boxes. A pill is easy to understand, but gene therapy?...
