by Heather Zeiger | Feb 8, 2018 | Announcements, Salvo, Society
My latest Casualty Report has recent statistics on pornography and its affects on society. The title of the article comes from the hypothetical scenario I draw of an alien that visits Earth and found that in one year humans watched 4.6 billion hours of pornography....
by Heather Zeiger | Sep 28, 2016 | Announcements, Ethics, Salvo, Society
I have a new article in Salvo Magazine on Euthanasia. This is my second Casualty Report for Salvo and this time I provide the latest numbers on how many people have died as a result of euthanasia, where it is legal, and how physician-assisted suicide has changed over...
by Heather Zeiger | May 28, 2016 | Human Dignity, Salvo, Society
Salvo Magazine has a section called “Casualty Report” where they will report on current trends and statistics. I wrote this quarter’s report on sex trafficking. While the report is factual in tone, it was a difficult topic to research. I had to work...
by Heather Zeiger | Jan 19, 2016 | Ethics, Salvo, Science, Society
Check out my latest post at Salvo’s blog, Signs of the Times. I look at the Nuffield Council on Bioethics report on how the words “natural,” “unnatural,” and “nature” are used in the media, journals, and in other venues. In...
by Heather Zeiger | Nov 5, 2015 | Salvo, Science, Society, Technology
My latest post in Salvo’s Signs of the Times addresses a question posed by several researchers from Australia, The Netherlands, and the U.K. in a recent commentary in Nature Methods: What if stem cells turn into embryos in a dish? While it is not yet possible to...
by Heather Zeiger | Jun 4, 2015 | Salvo, Science, Technology
In my latest blog post at Salvo’s Signs of the Times I comment on the recently published research out of Nature that says scientists are very close to making a yeast strain that will convert glucose into morphine.
