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standplaatswereld , April 18th, 2022
By Herbert Ploegman; Didi Boldewijn, Maya Roettger and Lorenzo Horwitz; Alice Riva, Claudia Rapisarda, Elisabeth Jongmans and Jasper Schotte; Ashley Prather and Maira van Emden Two crumpled up…
Leyla Safta-Zecheria , January 28th, 2022
Upon entering the Orthodox Christian cemetery in Siret, a town on the Romanian-Ukrainian border, we were met with neatly kept marvel gravestones, occasionally adorned with plastic flowers and…
The Familiar Strange , December 5th, 2021
I am hospitalized while I am typing this, waiting to be seen for cervical vertebral disease, which is causing a daily numbing sensation in both hands. The wait…
Pascale Schild , July 7th, 2021
“Everything is research data.” As PhD students we must have heard this statement from teachers, mentors, and supervisors a hundred times. The advice points to the widely held…
Lisa Raeder , October 6th, 2020
What are hormones? While biomedical notions of hormones focus on their biological functions in bodies, hormones are also cultural artifacts, shaping understandings of health, normalcy, and what it…
Austin Duncan , September 29th, 2020
A Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is a common injury that occurs when a physical blow or force to the head damages the brain inside the skull—full stop. As…
Sonia Zakrzewski , June 11th, 2020
In the U.K., people of black, Asian, and minority ethnic backgrounds have been disproportionately hard hit by COVID-19. Tim Dennell/Flickr Around the world, there are reports that COVID-1…
Zaneta Thayer , May 21st, 2020
Zully, a COVID-19 patient whose last name was withheld for privacy, holds up a photo of her newborn baby, Neysel, on April 24 in Stamford, Connecticut. She gave…
María Florencia Blanco Esmoris , May 13th, 2020
The house and the body are the protagonists of isolation. In Argentina, staying at home is experienced as an unequal privilege. The coronavirus put on the table such…
Anna Goldfield , May 5th, 2020
Southwestern Finland isn’t a great place for archaeologists to find anything other than the sturdiest of remains. The pine needles that fall to the boreal forest floor make…
Gideon Lasco , April 8th, 2020
(no-caption) Malte Mueller/Getty Images Here in the Philippines, as in many parts of the world, there’s been an outbreak of hand sanitizers. Since late January, pump dispensers and…
Alan Goodman , March 13th, 2020
[no-caption] KTS Design/Science Photo Library/Getty Images Please note that this article includes an image of human remains. A friend of mine with Central American, Southern European, and…
Amanda Votta , November 26th, 2019
In the wake of a 2016 federal guideline, many chronic pain patients have had difficulty accessing their previous dose of opioids such as oxycodone (above). John Moore/Getty Images…
Anna Goldfield , November 12th, 2019
As I sit writing this column post, my sinuses feel like they are made of concrete, and my ears are aching and clogged to the point of causing…
Christopher D. Lynn , October 31st, 2019
A Samoan schoolteacher receives a full pe’a, the traditional tattoo generally worn by males. Christopher D. Lynn This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been rep…
Anna Goldfield , October 10th, 2019
If you’re like me, you view long-distance running as a somewhat unrealistic aspiration and see those people who do it well as remarkable creatures. The truth, though, is…
Dimitris Xygalatas , October 4th, 2019
During the kavadi attam ritual in Mauritius, devotees are voluntarily pierced, in some cases hundreds of times. Dimitris Xygalatas Inside a stuffy, overcrowded, and overheated room, a gro…
Nina Studer , September 25th, 2019
Today, coffee is consumed everywhere in the world. Despite its neo-colonial forms of production, it is a drink which brings people together, but the consumption of coffee in…
Anna Goldfield , September 12th, 2019
In a cave tucked into the limestone hills of the Asturias region of Spain, there lie the remains of a group of 13 Neanderthals that date to between…
Cay Leytham-Powell , August 27th, 2019
Down syndrome is typically caused by an error in cell division during fetal development, which results in an embryo with three copies of chromosome 21 instead of two. Marcel Hirshegger/SAPIEN…
Christopher Manoharan and Dimitris Xygalatas , August 15th, 2019
Devotees gather for the Sufi ritual of dhikr in downtown Istanbul. Dimitris Xygalatas In downtown Istanbul, Turks in religious garb filter into a large, multistory building. Behind the…