The Gender Reveal That Doesn’t

Whatever happened to secondary sex characteristics? You know, those shapes and appendages we develop after puberty as an anatomical signage, an aid to evolution. Kardashians aside, the cultural appetite seems to be waning not only for visible gender difference but also the exaggerated tell. This is perhaps one of the reasons behind the continued success…

The Glorious Absurdity of Paris Fashion

It was the giant floating dachshund spaceship that did it. It drifted over an expansive Art Deco coliseum — site of the 2132 Lunar Games, an intergalactic extravaganza supposedly taking place 239,000 miles from earth as men and women in 50 shades of intricately worked sporting whites flew the flag of hope — to close…

Get to Know These Black Bridal Designers

Black bridal designers have been at the forefront of innovation in the bridal fashion industry for years, yet many of them have failed to receive the recognition that they deserve. Most famously, when Ann Lowe, a Black woman who created gowns for debutantes and society brides, designed Jacqueline Bouvier’s gown for her wedding to John…

COVID-19, climate change, and global crises among topics at NAM Annual Meeting – Oct. 18-19

COVID-19, Climate Change and Human Health, and Responding to Global Crises Among Topics at Meeting of Nation’s Top Health Leaders and Scholars – Oct. 18-19 The National Academy of Medicine’s (NAM) virtual 50th Annual Meeting will include a scientific symposium on Monday, Oct. 19 — Confronting Urgent Threats to Human Health and Society: COVID-19 and…

COVID-19- to COVID-20

From Covid-19- to COVID-20 – the evolution of COVID-19 in terms of its overall medical and socio-economic impacts is examine through a comparison of cases and deaths in the two successive waves we have experienced. Peak comparisons show that although the number of cases has doubled the number of deaths has decreased by 50 percent…

Study to explore if impaired metabolic pathways lead to MS progression

BUFFALO, N.Y. — University at Buffalo researchers have received a $957,000 grant from the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command to explore the progression of neurodegeneration in multiple sclerosis (MS). The study will investigate whether changes in metabolic pathways (a series of chemical reactions that supply energy and provide structural building blocks for the…

Tracking the trackers: uOttawa researchers launch COVID-19 Global Pandemic App Watch

Contact-tracing and exposure-notification apps are a new technology rapidly developed and launched to respond to the COVID-19?global health crisis. The development of such applications is placing governments, corporations, and citizens around the world into an ongoing ethical design experiment resulting in potentially life-saving outcomes but also potential risks. During the summer of 2020, design teams…