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The eastern black rail, a subspecies of bird that’s scattered in clusters along America’s eastern coastlines, is one of the most elusive creatures a wildlife biologist can choose to study. Adults are the size of a human hand, and are dark and shy,…

The Future of Conservation Is Basically Shazam for Wildlife

Chronic pain is both one of the world’s most costly medical problems, affecting one in every five people, and one of the most mysterious. In the past two decades, however, discoveries about the crucial role played by glia — a set of nervous system…

The Quiet Scientific Revolution That May Solve Chronic Pain

BEASTS BEFORE US The Untold Story of Mammal Origins and Evolution By Elsa Panciroli Richard Owen loathed small mammals, calling them “ratlike, shrewlike forms of the most stupid and unintelligent order of sucklers.” That wouldn’t have mattered if…

The Runty Prehistoric Mammals That Outlasted the Dinosaurs

BOTTLE OF LIES The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom Who would ever guess that Gandhi helped start an industry whose corruption now plagues us all? Yet here he is, early in Katherine Eban’s “Bottle of Lies,” barefoot in his Ahmedabad ashram,…

A New Book Argues That Generic Drugs Are Poisoning Us

As winters grow warmer in North America, thirsty ticks are on the move. We found the moose calf half an hour in. He lay atop thin snow on a gentle slope sheltered by the boughs of a big, black spruce, curled up as a dog would on a couch. He had…

Climate Change Enters Its Blood-Sucking Phase

Sheila Advento was not feeling well. It was July 6, 2003, and her mother’s house in northern New Jersey was filled with people. Sheila and her mom were there, along with Sheila’s boyfriend, sister, and brother-in-law—a slice of a huge extended…

The Devastating Allure of Medical Miracles

Some medical experiments are more daunting than others. The one that the neurologist Helen Mayberg came up with to test a model of depression she had developed over about 15 years involved drilling two holes in the top of a patient’s skull and…

Why a ‘Lifesaving’ Depression Treatment Didn’t Pass Clinical Trials

Feature stories, read aloud: Download the Audm app for your iPhone. I. The Fabric of Reality By the time Nev Jones entered DePaul University's esteemed doctoral program in philosophy, she had aced virtually every course she ever took, studied five…

The Touch of Madness

(“The Evolution of Beauty” by Richard Prum was selected as one of The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of 2017. For the rest of the list, click here.) For readers, Charles Darwin, born in 1809, apparently never gets old. Books by Darwin…

Survival of the Prettiest

A few years ago, Gene Robinson, of Urbana, Illinois, asked some associates in southern Mexico to help him kidnap some 1,000 newborns. For their victims they chose bees. Half were European honeybees, Apis mellifera ligustica, the sweet-tempered kind…

The Social Life of Genes

Frustrated by the failures in his field, Tom Insel, a former director of the National Institute of Mental Health, is now trying to reduce the world’s anguish through the devices in people’s pockets. Sometime around 2010, about two-thirds of the way…

The Smartphone Psychiatrist

David Dobbs extols a history of New York's Bellevue hospital, a crucible of discovery in medicine. To many Americans, the name Bellevue signifies 'psychiatric facility' as much as Bedlam does to Britons. The psychiatric unit of the New York City…

Public health: Gore and glory

From the day Christian Guardino was born, his mother, Elizabeth, knew that something was wrong with his eyes. They would jiggle and jerk and roll up into his head. One eye turned inward. When she fed him, instead of gazing up at her, Christian would…

Why There’s New Hope About Ending Blindness

Sara Bostock once sent me a picture of her and her daughter Cecily in happier times, and it’s a happy shot indeed: mother and daughter, 40-something and 20-something, outdoors in the sun, looking radiant. With their beaming smiles—the same smile,…

The Human Cost of a Misleading Drug-Safety Study

“Soon enough,” Alice Dreger writes at the beginning of her romp of a book, “I will get to the death threats, the sex charges, the alleged genocides, the epidemics, the alien abductees, the anti-lesbian drug, the unethical ethicists, the fight with…

‘Galileo’s Middle Finger,’ by Alice Dreger

Of Christine Kenneally’s father’s father — a man neither Kenneally nor her father ever knew, a man who did the deed requisite to reproduction and promptly vanished — she asks, “Did he leave anything more significant than the loud bang of a door shut…

Christine Kenneally’s ‘Invisible History of the Human Race’

In his 2007 book “A Farewell to Alms,” the economic historian Gregory Clark argued that the English came to rule the world largely because their rich outbred their poor, and thus embedded their superior genes and values throughout the nation. In her…

The Fault in Our DNA

To understand the violent criminal, says Richard E. Tremblay, imagine a 2-year-old boy doing the things that make the terrible twos terrible — grabbing, kicking, pushing, punching, biting. Now imagine him doing all this with the body and resources of…

Terrible Twos Who Stay Terrible

The United States Food and Drug Administration is not known for its prose. So the warning letter that it sent to 23andMe, the direct-to-consumer genetic-testing company, on November 22nd, was a surprise in more ways than one. “It reads like the…

The F.D.A. vs. Personal Genetic Testing

On average, about 700 Americans kill themselves each week — but in the fine-weather weeks of May and June, the toll rises closer to 800, sometimes higher. Every year, suicide peaks with the tulips and lilacs — increasing roughly 15 percent over the…

Clues in the Cycle of Suicide

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Wolf (Keltie) and Owl (Stan) The alluring beauty that nature offers often is captivated by the lens of many photographers. That's usually how all of us get a view of the serene and breathtaking views of nature and wildlife. Not many of us think of…

Back To Nature Apparel

Throughout the Canadian charitable landscape of today, many charities are still living in the past and trying to raise funds the old way, as they have done back in the 1990s. However, the world of philanthropy and fundraising has evolved so much…

The Evolution of Philanthropy

"Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind, and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open." -- B. K. S. Iyengar
If someone doesn't have their health, the other areas of their…

Dr. Candice Staniek

Happiness, good times, and great memories are often associated with delicious food. Everybody loves food that makes taste buds delighted.
​The Gourmet Pantry by Priyanka Malhotra is adding some zing to your meals by converting simple everyday meals…

The Gourmet Pantry

 Not many understand nature’s healing powers, much less take a total leap of faith when it comes to starting a new business. A famous quote by Benjamin Franklin states that: “Out of adversity comes opportunity.” Susanne Heaton had two…

Motivated By Nature

Fundraising for charities are an essential necessity as the bloodstream for humans. Throughout the Canadian charitable landscape, many charities are still living in the past and trying to raise funds the old way, as they have done back in the 1990s.…

Pounce Support Services™

 Bullying, sexual harassment, and workplace abuse are the multi-headed ‘Hydra’ beast pillaging our societies today. It affects workplace morale, decreases productivity, and puts victims into a pit of depression and despair. Ruining in its path many…

Harmony In The Workplace

Out of the womb of adversity, a star is born. Founded by DeeAnne Riendeau, due to personal childhood health challenges, ‘Your Holistic Earth’ launched in September 2014, based upon a vision of creating the first holistic health care system in…

Your Holistic Earth

​Opting for a career in the general insurance and brokerage industry is a challenging undertaking, but when you have the right mentors to guide you through and help you learn the ins and outs of the industry, then you could have a bright future ahead…

Advance Insurance Educational Services

 Horses have long been regarded as one of the most intelligent and sensitive animals. Most of us are used to horses being utilized mostly for transportation, sports, agricultural uses, and recreational activities. However, there's more to…

Centaur Wellness

They say, ‘if you do what you love, you’ll never work a day in your life’. However, most of us are not fortunate enough to make our income out of what we love to do. Maybe we don't have enough resources and opportunities, or perhaps we lack an…

2nd Floor Podcast

Every entrepreneur wants to see their business grow, elevate it to the highest peak, and generate big profits. However, without a clear direction and a clear goal, a business can stumble down in no time. This is where the services of “ready.set.go.”…

ready.set.go!

The alluring beauty that nature offers often is captivated by the lens of many photographers. That's usually how all of us get a view of the serene and breathtaking views of nature and wildlife. Not many of us think of giving back to nature though;…

 Our intense fast-pacing way of life today is affecting our mental health. Heightened levels of stress and numerous life challenges are causing immense mental strains on people. To make matters worse, when the pandemic hit the world, it exacerbated…

All Thrive

When the pandemic brought the world's economy to its knees, and many businesses closed their doors, a local newspaper in Chestermere, Alberta is still standing with high hopes against all odds.
They say 'desperate times call for desperate measures,'…

Chetermere Anchor City News

“You just get it all. We just give and give and give on top of the networking, so that's what you get when you join the CIBN Connect. You get a new family that wants to support you in business.”
With 2020 behind us (thankfully) come epic hopes for…

CIBN Connect

​What do you do when someone says they love something you’ve done - and can they maybe buy it from you? Well, for Kevin Chow and Jamie Mason, founding partners at Rawry and Pohly, their stylish minimalistic, hand-painted pop-art canvases morphed from…

NCP Consulting Services

 “We both value things that are highly creative and can help people, and provide a difference, and so that’s kind of the underlying of why we started this. We both had a desire to provide value, and a desire to be creative while we did it.” With…

Studio Spero

 “I think everyone who's an optimist is a senior-to-be. We all hope to grow old. We might not like the idea of aging, but it's a fact we accept, and we all want to live a good long life.”With this mindset, Jeff Gaye established “Respect”—a newspaper…

Respect Publishing

A recap of the American Society for Travel Advisors advocacy on Capitol Hill in 2022. 

What Advisors Should Known About ASTA's Visit to Washington

A brief intro to crypto for travel advisors, followed by a Q&A with an expert.

Understanding How Cryptocurrency Might Affect Your Business

In Tbilisi, a Black American woman attempts a new form of ethical tourism — with mixed results.

An Experiment in Nanotourism

I started somatic experiencing—an alternative therapy that remediates trauma through bodywork—at the recommendation of a friend who, like me, is a Black woman. Meds and talk therapy effectively treated my depression but did little to ease my…

On Becoming a Somatic Abolitionist

SHIRLEY PADEN shares her mission to nourish the next generation of knitwear designers. 

Purls, Passion and Purpose

Is legislation needed to protect against discrimination?

Black Hairstyles

The TFC Voices series explores the personal experiences of freelancers across a wide range of industries and lifestyles. Interested in contributing an essay? Pitch us here. It’s an understatement to say this past year has not been great for my…

How I’m Managing My Freelance Business While Dealing With Major Health Problems

Experts predict a future demand for seamless service through integrated tech, a rise in subscription travel and renewable tourism, and jet-setting to outer space.

The Future of Luxury Travel

"Luxury travel has always been over-the-top, but vacation-starved clients are now taking their requests to new levels."

Go Big or Go Home

Leadership As America reckons with issues of race and gender, many associations are re-upping their commitment to diversity and inclusion. Here are practical steps that leaders can take to create organizational cultures and safe, welcoming spaces for…

How to Activate Thoughtful Inclusion at Your Association

Sylvia Watts-Cherry reclaims and honors her Nigerian heritage through her knitwear designs.

Honoring An Inherent Culture

Amid the heated national controversy about CRT in schools, some Black educators are openly using the framework to help students better understand history and contextualize current events. Most American students graduate high school without ever…

Critical Race Theory Opens Up New Opportunities for Student Learning

Teaching About Racism

The best travel advisors do their utmost to ensure their clients stay safe while traveling. Historically this has meant ensuring travelers have all the right documents or verifying a hotel’s allergen-free menu options. Today, it’s wise to add another…

Tech to Know: A VPN Connection

Meetings For Hayley King, 2021 was an opportunity to spice up tried-and-true programming—and make creative pandemic-responsive changes to improve attendee experience. Our eighth planner of productivity is Hayley King, meeting planner for the…

Stay Creative and Adaptable for Innovative Events

Passengers exchanged nervous glances as they boarded a Southwest Airlines flight from Dallas to Albuquerque, New Mexico, this past February. Despite repeated requests (and a free mask) from the flight crew, an unruly passenger, as they are known in…

Taking Off: How The Association of Flight Attendants Sets a First-Class Example

Travel insights from Ruth Terry, contributor to The Compass For Universal Orlando Resort Senior Marketing Director Sonya Ballentine, working in travel isn’t just a job — it’s a calling. The Miami native’s 14-year career in the travel industry has…

How I Carry On: Authenticity, Success and Finding Joy

Meetings To continuously improve events, VP Blake Swango incorporates feedback from all American Sportfishing Association members and exhibitors. Our seventh planner of productivity is Blake Swango, vice president of trade and membership for the…

Highlight New Products To Up Excitement at Events

Travel insights from Ruth Terry, contributor to The Compass The travel bug bit Theresa Winters in 2016, when she embraced solo vacations after her divorce. Soon, when she began traveling with her two children, now 10 and 12, she quickly discovered…

Solo Parents Need Your Help. Here’s How to Serve Them Better

Within an arts ecosystem that often marginalizes people of color, Karen Smith found a nontraditional path to becoming a metal artist. Now she’s inspiring women like her do the same.
Karen Smith’s website bio opens with a deceptively straightforward…

Metalsmith Forges Opportunities for Black Women Artists

In a vote of confidence for the nascent field of quantum energy, Italian startup Planckian has raised €2.7 million in pre-seed funds to accelerate the development of quantum batteries. With the tantalizing promise of uninterrupted portable power,…

Quantum Batteries Promise Lightning-Fast Charging Speeds

In August, a 30-strong team of IBM Research scientists revealed a radically new chip, designed to drastically raise the energy efficiency of power-hungry deep learning inference while maintaining operation precision. The analog in-memory chip, dubbed…

Could IBM’s AI Chip Reinvent Deep Learning Inference?

In a move that could slash the energy consumed by data centers while overcoming bandwidth bottlenecks, Netherlands-based Astrape Networks has won €1.6 million in pre-seed funding to scale up its integrated photonics switching technology. Principals…

Astrape Networks: Greening the Data Center

Using super-resolution microscopy, researchers at the University of California, Irvine, and the University of Pennsylvania have for the first time observed electrical charge and discharge functions inside mitochondria isolated from cells. Professor…

Battery-like function of mitochondria uncovered

Microscopic moustache developed to support men’s health charity, Movember. Subscribe to the Wiley Analytical Science newsletter Stay up to date with analytical science product and industry news. Email Country or RegionSelect country or regionSelect…

Red blood cell gets moustache makeover

UK's Natural History Museum has received 100mg of the asteroid Bennu for study, which researchers are set to analyse to glean new details on how planets and the solar system formed. In the next two years, Professor Sara Russell, Senior Research Lead…

Bennu asteroid dust reaches UK museum

Overview Seit er die Neurowissenschaften für sich entdeckt hat, wollte der Direktor des Max-Planck-Instituts für Hirnforschung, Moritz Helmstaedter, die Großhirnrinde kartieren - 2019 hat er es geschafft. Rebecca Pool findet heraus, wie der Pionier…

Vom Kortex und darüberhinaus

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Understanding how 'promoters' kick-start catalysis

Solving a 400-year-old alchemy puzzle, chemists at the UK-based University of Bristol have discovered that gold nanoparticles are the reason why fulminating gold – the world’s first known high explosive – produces a purple smoke when it detonates.…

Mystery of purple smoke from early explosive solved

In October this year, Director of Advanced Imaging at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Janelia Research Campus, US, Teng-Leong Chew, and colleagues from Janelia and the University of Cape Town, South Africa, published bold plans to…

Africa's microscopy revolution begins

Germany-based researchers from Kiel University (CAU) and the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen have combined microscopy with metabolomics to shed new light on how microbes communicate with their host. The fascinating world of…

How microbes communicate with their host

Refeyn, UK, has appointed Gerry Mackay as new CEO of the company, effective January 1st, 2024. Over the Q4 2023 period, Mackay will transition into his new role working with Jonathan Flint, Executive Chairman and the Leadership Team at Refeyn. Mackay…

Refeyn names new CEO

Irish startup, turboTEM, has won the Institute of Physics Business Start-Up award for 2023. The University College Dublin spin-off is building ultramicroscopy equipment with a view to making electron microscopes more flexible and affordable. Its…

TurboTEM wins start-up award

Using long-term video imaging and computer vision, UK-based biologists have measured all of the observable characteristics of embryos of three species of freshwater snail. As Dr Oliver Tills and colleagues from Marine Biology and Ecology Research…

Video imaging to transform species studies

Using light sheet microscopy, Marine Biological Laboratory Central Microscopy Facility researcher, Derrick Kamp, has captured a stunning image of a hatchling Euprymna berryi squid (rainbow) with it’s bioluminescent bacterial symbiont, Vibrio fischeri…

'It takes two to tanglow'

To better understand the exotic properties of 2D materials, US-based researchers have developed a novel operating mode for interferometric 4D scanning transmission electron microscopy. Based on Bragg interferometry, the 4D STEM mode uses a defocused…

Probing 2D materials at the nanoscale

Micro-tomography reveals differences in dental tissue dimensions between human canines. Using computerized axial micro-tomography, researchers from France, Spain and South Africa have analyzed differences between the canine teeth of European and…

Are human teeth from Europe and Africa different?

In November, Finland-based small satellite manufacturer Kuva Space raised €16.6 million in funds to hone its imaging tech, launch an AI-based platform to process the Earth observation data it collects and, of course, launch more satellites. At a time…

Investment Frenzy for Small Satellites

A venture capital fund from PhotonVentures of The Netherlands launched this Summer with the clear aim of ‘super-charging’ early-stage photonic chip startups across Europe. At a time when integrated photonics development is rapidly rising across the…

PhotonVentures €100M Fund to Super-Charge Photonics

Since 1992, point electronic of Germany has installed more than 3000 standard and bespoke parts on electron microscopes – Managing Director, Christoph Sichting, charts company developments over the decades and reveals future plans. Subscribe to the…

Driving custom microscopy into the future

Financial history is littered with poor predictions and bad timing. Perhaps that’s all due to selection/survivorship bias: We only record and recall financial predictions gone wrong. The good or mediocre ones we usually don’t think twice about. After…

Check Your Economic Hubris

Print The Dutch are truly magnificent. Amsterdam had the first stock market, the first proto-central bank, and the first widespread ownership of a publicly traded company (although tradable shares in common ventures had existed before). Their Golden…

The Beginning of the Modern World: It Was Always the Dutch

Print In chapter six of Paul Seabright’s great Company of Strangers: A Natural History of Economic Life, we’re treated to an account of the monetary troubles of post-communist Russia. In a setting where inflation ran in the thousands of percent and…

On Monetary Premia

Print Music doesn’t have economic value. Now, that’s an eye-popping proposition if I ever saw one, so please allow me to flesh it out. The rhythmical vibrations that move into my ear canal as I write this depend on a combination of incredible…

Music Has No Economic Value

We were never going to reduce atmospheric carbon by appealing to people’s better judgement. When the kids are hungry and our subsistence and livelihood is on the line, concerns for a changing climate — today or fifty years into the future — go out…

Technology, Not Politics or Penance, Solves Climate Change

Lo maravilloso de la libertad, los derechos de propiedad y los mercados es que si algo no te gusta, no tienes por qué formar parte de ello. En el capitalismo puro y bello, los consumidores son soberanos: no se les obliga a consumir algo, y su…

¿Representan los monumentos destruidos un pasado que no merece defenderse?

The wonderful thing about liberty, property rights, and markets is that if you don’t like something, you don’t have to be a part of it. Under pure and beautiful capitalism, consumers are sovereign: they’re not forced to consume something, and their…

Do Destroyed Monuments Represent a Past Not Worth Defending?

Print About a decade ago, during a short period when geoengineering was hip and trendy, I remember a proponent of this unorthodox climate change policy saying that we wouldn’t have a choice. One way or another, we would have to geoengineer Earth’s…

Politicians Talk; Entrepreneurs and Scientists Do

Print There’s a scene in the 2004 film Troy where Nestor, the Greek elder and advisor to King Agamemnon, tries to temper the latter’s hatred for Achilles. “How many battles have we won off the edge of his sword? This will be the greatest war the…

Johan Norberg’s The Capitalist Manifesto: A Review

Print Twitter’s “Muted Words” function is a godsend. For a long time, every major event that takes place in the world — think wars, elections, politicking — has quickly generated a half-dozen new words that I ask Twitter to block from my view: “Gaza”…

How to Rationally Consume News

Quit College—or Better Yet, Don’t Even Start When I was in university a decade ago, this was some wacky, contrarian advice. It wasn’t unheard of for intellectual, middle-class youngsters to opt out of college, and it was still the early days of…

Ten Years Ago, I Discovered the Mises Institute. These Are the Things I Wish I Had Done Differently

Deja la universidad —o mejor aún, ni empieces Hace una década, cuando yo estudiaba en la universidad, éste era un consejo descabellado y contradictorio. No era inaudito que los jóvenes intelectuales de clase media optaran por no ir a la universidad,…

Hace diez años descubrí el Instituto Mises. Estas son las cosas que desearía haber hecho diferente

Print Fossil fuels get a lot of slack these days. Outside of geographic hubs where mining, drilling, and oil refinery dominate local labor markets, working in the oil industry is hopelessly unappealing to young people. It’s a horrific, evil sector;…

Transition This, Transition That

[El lunes 9 de octubre, la Real Academia Sueca concedió el Premio Sveriges Riksbank de Ciencias Económicas en memoria de Alfred Nobel a Claudia Goldin, de la Universidad de Harvard. Dos expatriados suecos reflexionan sobre el significado del Premio y…

Dos suecos sobre el nuevo Nobel de Economía

[On Monday, October 9, the Royal Swedish Academy awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Claudia Goldin of Harvard University. Two Swedish expatriates reflect on the meaning of the Prize and this year’s…

Two Swedes on the New Economics Nobel

Print On Monday, 114 climate activists were arrested in New York City after having made quite the spectacle outside the Federal Reserve building. The stunt came just days after tens of thousands of protesters gathered in Midtown to protest world…

How To Be Accidentally Right, Central Banking Style

Most people have quite the dire view of finance and markets. Unscrupulous bankers and pompous hedge funds place unsound bets on obscure and risky investments; greedy businessmen jack prices and fire workers at the first sight of recessions caused by…

Can Finance Save the Wolves?

Read this in English Cuando estaba en la universidad, una vez me opuse al perezoso uso que hacía un compañero de «bienes públicos». Lo había utilizado para favorecer su posición política, como sinónimo abreviado de lo que es bueno para la sociedad,…

Apropiación cultural: el no robo de algo que no pertenece a nadie

Lee esto en Español When I was at the university, I once objected to a classmate’s lazy use of “public goods.” He had used it to favor his policy position, as a shorthand synonym of what’s good for society—only a thinly veiled euphemism for what I…

Cultural Appropriation: The Nontheft of Something No One Owns

Print It annoys pundits that a handful of firms dominate every industry. It annoys tech regulators that the Googles and Facebooks of the world become unimpeachable giants that won’t be toppled by upstarts anytime soon. It annoys Bitcoiners that the…