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Sara Sybesma Tolsma

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Science Under Attack

The cuts to science risk the health and safety of Americans and people around the world—especially the marginalized and underrepresented.

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Biological Truth

Biological truth is that sex determination is a complicated developmental process, controlled by many genes

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Anxious People

I passed by Fredrik Backman’s newest novel, Anxious People, as I was perusing the browsing section of my institution’s library. I didn’t think that a

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Consciousness in a Petri Dish?

Early last semester a headline in the journal Nature caught my eye: Neanderthal-like “Mini-brains” Created in the Lab with CRISPR. I bookmarked the article and

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I Believe in Hairy Legs

On a hot, humid summer afternoon, my sons, then 4 and 7, came rushing, breathless, to ask me to watch the praying mantis they caught

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