by Heather Zeiger | Sep 5, 2023 | Science in the News
In August, during my Science in the News spot on Mornings with Carmen, we talked about medical care for the frail elderly and The New Yorker article by Sunita Puri, author and palliative care and hospice physician, on the moral distress physicians experience...
by Heather Zeiger | Aug 11, 2023 | Science in the News
This summer’s heat wave across the U.S. Southwest, Mexico, parts of Europe, and China would have been virtually impossible without “human-driven climate change,” according to a study published by researchers at World Weather Attribution. The study...
by Heather Zeiger | Jun 11, 2022 | Science
Big Projects I took some time off from my regular writing at Mind Matters News on China and technology so I could finish a couple of long-term projects. The first was a special report on the ethics of fetal tissue research, published on The Center for Bioethics &...
by Heather Zeiger | Jan 4, 2022 | Science
Beginning Again in the New Year NFL quarter back Philip Rivers had a Latin phrase printed on hats, shirts, and the walls of the Chargers’ locker room: Nunc Coepi. Last year Rivers retired after playing seventeen seasons in the NFL. His favorite phrase Nunc Coepi means...
by Heather Zeiger | Dec 23, 2021 | Science
This Fall update comes out a little late as I am working on updating my website. I’ve made my publications page much more user-friendly, and in the coming months, I am going to add some creative pages for those, like me, who would like a little more art, nature,...