Jeanette Beebe

Aging, health care, & tech: Forbes, Daily Beast, Fast Company, SciAm, NPR/WHYY.

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Oct 4, 2019

'You’re Not the Father': A Moral Dilemma in Genetic Testing

The child was critically ill. The treating team at Children's National Hospital in Washington, DC, was stumped and worried that time was running out. Every test was coming back negative. Genetics was called in to look for chromosomal mutations that…

Sep 27, 2019

You can now make money selling your own health data, but should you?

Selling your own health data is completely legal—if you wanted to, you could request a copy of your electronic health record from your doctor and post an ad on eBay, Craigslist, or even Facebook Marketplace. But unlike a used car or a work of art or…

Jul 14, 2019

The Wild West of Anti-Aging Medicine

In a remote fishing lodge in Soldotna, Alaska—a town of just over 4000 people along 2 million pristine acres of protected wilderness—Dr Robert Ledda leads a specialized medical practice designed to help his patients manage or even optimize aging.…

Apr 4, 2019

Princeton Alumni Weekly

Serving by Teaching

Across the state, from Trenton to North Jersey, a tenacious group of Princetonians is reporting for duty in a unique classroom. They’re students — and soon-to-be teachers. After years of coursework, fieldwork, and student teaching, this pack of…

Mar 22, 2019

What you don’t know about your health data will make you sick

This story is part of The Privacy Divide, a series that explores the fault lines and disparities–economic, cultural, philosophical–that have developed around data privacy and its impacts on society. Every time you shuffle through a line at the…

Feb 7, 2019

The Daily Beast

This Fusion Technology Could Make Clean Energy Drastically Cheaper

Getty The most ambitious clean energy option — fusion, a lesser-known type of nuclear power that could one day put a near-limitless supply of electricity on the grid — has faced one big problem for years: It's expensive. The research is expensive.…

Jan 3, 2019

Artificial Intelligence That Helps Doctors Predict When Patients Will Die

(Editor’s note: This story is part of a special report for The John A. Hartford Foundation.) Our final days are difficult because they are infused with uncertainty: We don’t know which meal, conversation, embrace or even goodbye will be our last.…

Dec 11, 2018

That Sugar Rush Is All In Your Head

We've all heard of the "sugar rush." It's a vision that prompts parents and even teachers to snatch candy away from kids, fearing they'll soon be bouncing off the walls, wired and hyperactive. It’s a myth American culture has clung to for decades—and…

Dec 11, 2018

mentalfloss.com

That Sugar Rush Is All In Your Head

We've all heard of the "sugar rush." It's a vision that prompts parents and even teachers to snatch candy away from kids, fearing they'll soon be bouncing off the walls, wired and hyperactive. It’s a myth American culture has clung to for decades—and…

Nov 29, 2018

Princeton Alumni Weekly

Alumni News New Films by Vasarhelyi ’00, Hartofilis ’03 Earn Critical Acclaim

Directors: Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi ’00 and Jimmy Chin. Vasarhelyi has made six full-length documentaries, beginning with A Normal Life (2003), which was inspired by her senior thesis on postwar Kosovo. A comparative literature major, she and…

Oct 31, 2018

How old-school silicon could bring quantum computers to the masses

The path forward in quantum computing is unclear, but for big governments and a range of companies, the destination isn’t: quantum advantage, or quantum supremacy, the point at which a quantum computer can outperform a classical computer at a…

Oct 30, 2018

Can a drone save your life? Possibly

Bloomberg This article is reprinted by permission from NextAvenue.org. It is part of the Strengthening Rural Health Care For Older Adults Special Report. Remoteness is what makes family worry about us. It’s true at any age — from a daughter who sets…

Oct 16, 2018

Drone Ambulances to the Rescue

(Editor’s note: This story is part of a special report for The John A. Hartford Foundation.) Remoteness is what makes family worry about us. It’s true at any age — from a daughter who sets off on a weekend hike into the deep woods to a couple who…

Sep 12, 2018

U.N. group calls on Iran to release Princeton graduate student

The U.N.’s Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has concluded that Iran had “no legal basis” for arresting and detaining U.S. prisoner Xiyue Wang, who has spent more than 850 days behind bars in Iran. Wang, a fourth-year graduate student in …

Sep 4, 2018

The Daily Beast

Rainforests Are Fast Becoming a Laboratory for Cancer Drugs

Djaja D. Soejarto has been trekking through the rain forests of Laos and Vietnam for over two decades in search of cytotoxic molecules—the anticancer drugs of the future. It's a quest—a biological prospecting—that depends on carefully-crafted …

Aug 3, 2018

The Daily Beast

Black Women Suffer From Eating Disorders, Too

GlobalStock Pop culture tells us one thing about eating disorders: It’s a ‘white girl’ disease. From The Bachelor to Natalie Portman’s Nina in Black Swan to Lily Collins’ Ellen in To the Bone, eating disorders seem to only affect affluent white girls …

Jun 22, 2018

Should You Put a Camera in Your Loved One’s Nursing Home Room?

At some point during her stay in the memory care wing of a large, long-term facility in Hamilton Township, N.J., Marie Tykarski started to complain of pain. Getting to the bottom of what happened — understanding how and why she got hurt — took …

May 21, 2018

Collaborative Journalism Summit: Projects to fight disinformation in elections popping up all over the world

Collaborative Journalism Summit: Projects to fight disinformation in elections popping up all over the world Grégoire Lemarchand shared how CrossCheck worked in France and how its lessons could be applied in the U.S. this year In his keynote …

May 21, 2018

Collaborative Journalism Summit: Mainstream media need to actively look for ways to partner with ethnic media

Collaborative Journalism Summit: Mainstream media need to actively look for ways to partner with ethnic media Daniela Gerson also emphasizes equitable collaborative efforts, investing in relationships during opening keynote session After a quick …

Apr 22, 2018

Princeton Alumni Weekly

Finding a Voice

Racial harmony. Understanding. Mutual respect. These values are central to the spirit of the Princeton Prize in Race Relations, a volunteer-led awards program celebrating high school students nationwide. First envisioned by Henry von Kohorn ’66, the …