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Why Whales Sing: Rethinking the Songs of the Sea
Reconceives whale songs as a sophisticated sonar system, revealing incredible insights into these creatures' intelligence and behavior.
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Lazy, Crazy, and Disgusting: Stigma and the Undoing of Global Health
Stigma is all around us – messages communicated about how you don’t fit, don’t belong, or have no value. Mostly though, unless you happen to be the one being stigmatized, it’s pretty much invisible. Think of the discomfort of flying. As a New Zealander who...
Five reasons why doctors shouldn’t ask their patients to lose weight (and five things they should do instead)
Years ago I was the dietetics department manager and proposed that we cease offering weight loss clinics. The dietitians were enraged and others viewed this as anarchic or frivolous but I was deadly serious. I haven’t recommended weight loss to a patient for...
