by Heather Zeiger | Jun 11, 2022 | Newsletter
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 | Newsletter
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 | Newsletter
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,...
by Heather Zeiger | Jul 2, 2021 | Newsletter
Lately my projects have centered on China, Covid-19, or Fetal Tissue Research. Sometimes they overlap, like my three-part series on Covid-19 origins, which gets into why the lab leak theory has re-surfaced, gain-of-function studies, and the NIH’s role in funding...
by Heather Zeiger | Jan 27, 2021 | Newsletter
This winter I’ve written eight articles for Mind Matters News on China and technology. Most of them focus on using technology for censorship and surveillance, both online and in real life. The Chinese government has an extensive propaganda and censorship machine that...
by Heather Zeiger | Oct 27, 2020 | Newsletter
If there is one good thing about the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s online conferences. As a freelancer, conferences provide an opportunity to step out of the home office and be refreshed and encouraged by fellow scientists, writers, bioethicists, or creatives. Often...
by Heather Zeiger | Sep 9, 2020 | Science
“What will we do after the war?” Dorothy Sayers asked this of her readers in 1942 in her essay “Why Work?” ““The question that I will ask you to consider today is this: When the war is over, are we likely, and do we want to keep this...
by Heather Zeiger | Jun 14, 2020 | Society
To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.Martin Luther King, Jr. Racial injustice, viral pandemics, job loss–Is God there? Does he see? The Psalms have many prayers of lament that ask these very questions and then...
by Heather Zeiger | Apr 7, 2020 | Society, Technology, Uncategorized
U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams said, “It’s tragically fitting that we’re talking at the beginning of Holy Week because this is going to be the hardest and saddest week of most Americans’ lives, quite frankly.” I had been thinking about the restrictions placed on us...
by Heather Zeiger | Mar 13, 2020 | China, Society
I wrote two articles for Mind Matters on China’s censorship and surveillance practices amidst the coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak (here and here). After writing these articles, I had several people ask me about the coronavirus and whether I was worried. I said I...
