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Sara Sybesma Tolsma

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Go and Do Likewise

Sure, being vaccinated benefits us. It greatly reduces the chances that we experience severe illnesses. But, being vaccinated also benefits our neighbors.

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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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