Disability Futures
We can’t think about the future-of health, of technology, of community-without centering disability; it cuts across every other kind of experience. Disability is central to all of our lives.
Breaking the Cycle
The future of reproductive health in India, from early ideas about population control to on-the-ground interventions happening now, to a world where men and women share contraceptive responsibility.
Fowl Plague
Pandemics have threatened humanity in the past–and avian influenza may well be the next one due.
Beats: Disability
“Disable” is an active verb, and disability describes the social and environmental barriers that prevent access just as much as an individual body’s physical reality.
Beats: Health
Access to health care is as much a matter of public policy as it is the size of a person’s pocketbook; within a doctor’s office, many factors affect the quality of treatment.
Sugar Batteries and Fake Leaves Will Light Up Your World
We could combine technology and biology to produce clean, renewable energy–and lots of it.
Scientists Don’t Have a Monopoly On Objective Thinking
I wish that the STEM fields weren’t so cloistered from the rest of the academy, and by extension, I wish STEM professionals didn’t wind up sectioned off, in labs and on dev teams, separate from conversations about historical context, or ethics, or the way their work shapes society. But I want to make sure this doesn’t rest on an idea that science owns objective truth–or that the grey spaces of the world should be obliterated.