SalonRace & Ethnicity Eugenics, racism and the forced sterilization of heiress Ann Cooper Hewitt verified_publisherSalonIn January 1936, San Francisco heiress Ann Cooper Hewitt shocked the nation when she claimed that, in order to deprive her of her inheritance, her mother, Maryon, had her declared "feebleminded" and then...
SalonPhysics A cosmologist throws light on a universe of bias verified_publisherSalonThis article originally appeared on Undark. Every community guards a creation story, a theory of cosmic origins. In much of sub-Saharan West Africa, for the past few thousand years, itinerant storytellers...
SalonHealth COVID spawns "completely new category" of organ transplants verified_publisherSalonThis article originally appeared on Kaiser Health News. In a year when COVID-19 shattered the pleas of so many who prayed for miracles, a Georgia man with two new lungs is among the fortunate. Mark Buchanan,...
SalonZoology Adorable sea otters are the latest animal to fall victim to the novel coronavirus verified_publisherSalonI wouldn't want to meet the person who'd wish harm on an Asian small-clawed otter. The diminutive furry creature, whose body length ranges from over 28 inches to under 38 inches, is indigenous to South...
SalonSpace After Ingenuity's success, NASA looks to Saturn's moon for its next rotorcraft flight verified_publisherSalonOn Monday, The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced that Ingenuity succeeded in being the first powered-controlled flight on another planet. The space agency's Jet Propulsion...
