As I wrote in the story, the geography of the current outbreak means it's at a critical inflection point. We don't have enough sterile flies.

Well, yesterday, the USDA announced a new sterile fly facility in Mexico. Will it be enough? www.usda.gov/about-usda/n...

Other brain-injury patients have appeared to answer yes/no questions correctly in an fMRI machine, despite having no ability to communicate otherwise.

Like many people, probably, I came in knowing little beyond the Terri Schiavo controversy, and I found the boundary between consciousness/unconsciousness to be less absolute than I thought.

Vegetative patients, for example, have temporarily "awakened" and started speaking on Ambien.

this big bloomberg investigation into the global supply chain for human eggs is incredible, and this scene about a fertility drug purified from the urine of postmenopausal women is especially wild

www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

give it up for the scrawny city boys

5 years ago, I interviewed a woman with a severe allergy to corn, which turns out is hidden EVERYWHERE: table salt, bagged salads, frozen fish, etc.

Even allergy pills contain cornstarch.

Recently, she started a food allergy drug that's changed her life:

www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

this is a tarantino movie

the small, small world of extreme travel: this travel company that opened a luxury camp on Antarctica had also worked with one of the billionaires on the Titanic sub

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/07/antarctica-tourism-overcrowding-environmental-threat/674600/