When the Liver King fell from grace, the leaked list of the drugs he was on raised many eyebrows. The Liver King, né Brian Johnson, is a buff social media influencer who pressed his followers to...
As medicine uses more and more complex tools to treat illness, I worry that these newer interventions will be seen as impenetrable black boxes. A pill is easy to understand, but gene therapy?...
Every year, I’m an invited lecturer at the University of Ottawa to talk to future science communicators about pseudoscience. I use a number of increasingly muddied examples to show these students...
In April of 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, a documentary film premiered on YouTube and its title could not have been more relevant: Stressed.
In virtually every film adaptation of Mary Shelley’s classic, Frankenstein, the Creature is brought to life with a jolt of electricity with sparks flying all over. Often there are also the...
Orlando Bloom might have the nicest dimples around, but glance at his chin and you’ll notice a lack of a dent. Look at Demi Lovato’s chin though and you’ll see a cleft, almost like an indent there....
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