Why does every film and TV series seem to have the same plot? | Aeon Essays The three-act ‘hero’s journey’ has long been the most prominent kind of story. What other tales are there to tell?

absolutely fascinating

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‘Femtech’ takes on the women’s health-care marketplace A fast-growing industry offers high-tech solutions for feminine health problems. Its many female founders say they’re tackling the age-old equity gap in health care.

I've thought a lot about whether new products/technologies for women's health are actually addressing health inequities or if they're just the latest way of exploiting women, and this article does a great job of laying out that issue

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Artificial Emotions How long until a robot cries?

really fascinating dive into the nature of human emotion

nautil.us/artificial-e...

F.D.A. Approves First At-Home Alternative to the Pap Smear

great to see options like this finally becoming accessible

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/w...

Reimbursement inequities lead to hospitals deprioritizing women’s healthcare, experts tell Congress Even if they’re essentially the same procedure.

great piece on how hospitals are financially discouraged from performing procedures on female patients—and horrifying how deeply medical sexism is baked into the system

www.healthcare-brew.com/stories/2025...

Trump vs. Science We explain the administration’s cuts to research.

really good explanation of the dangerous ways cuts to US research are reshaping science

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/b...

What Do You Remember? The more you explore your own past, the more you find there.

really interesting exploration of our memories and their often underappreciated value

www.newyorker.com/culture/open...

Long COVID Showed Me the Bottom of American Health Care Access to clinics has only gotten patchier as attention to the disease has faded.

really striking illustration of how horrible it is to navigate the US healthcare system with Long Covid

www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

Can emotion-regulating tech translate across cultures? | Aeon Essays Artificial intelligence promises ever more control over the highs and lows of our emotions. Uneasy? Perhaps you should be

absolutely fascinating

aeon.co/essays/can-e...

Medical Benchmarks and the Myth of the Universal Patient From growth charts to anemia thresholds, clinical standards assume a single human prototype. Why are we still using one-size-fits-all health metrics?

fascinating piece on the biases built into medical systems that apply the same standards to every patient

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

congrats to Disease, having a huge year

As I've said, Trump officials suggest it's no big deal to reduce access to health care since it's mostly other things that are making Americans sick, like toxic chemicals. But they're allowing more toxic chemicals too bsky.app/profile/cram...

Is Global Mental Health Missing the Point? Ethiopian Voices Challenge Western Models Interviews with people diagnosed with depression in Ethiopia highlight how social, economic, and cultural struggles shape psychological suffering, raising concerns about Western mental health…

Is Global Mental Health Missing the Point? Ethiopian Voices Challenge Western Models

Interviews with people diagnosed with depression in Ethiopia raise concerns about Western mental health interventions.

By Richard Sears

Gavin Newsom Is the Worst The former #Resistance darling has no problem politically sacrificing the most vulnerable Americans, like trans high schoolers, for the sake of his White House dreams.

I wrote about Gavin Newsom, who sucks newrepublic.com/article/1924...

I hate that wellness got co-opted by the right because there really is a good conversation to have about our food systems and what goes into foods that could be harming us, but instead of passing regulations on food companies like other countries it’s going to be “you can’t buy snacks with SNAP”

When Other People's Chewing Causes You Pain Social relationships might shape a neurological disorder

wrote this new piece on misophonia & social cognition for @nautil.us

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Is Micromanaging Teachers a Recipe for School Success? A new superintendent is trying to improve Houston’s public schools through strictly structured teaching. The district says it’s working. Many educators and parents hate it.

timing the events of an elementary class down to the second is just dystopian... what exactly are we trying to prepare kids for?

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...

Well this aged well from a week ago

To help people understand the importance of NIH, share what you’ve used their funding for (in easily understandable terms).

I’ll start: my NIH postdoc funding helped me develop and test AI tools that could identify skin cancer across diverse skin tones.

FDA purges material on clinical trial diversity from its site, showing stakes of Trump DEI ban Following the Trump administration's DEI ban, the FDA's move to scrub webpages has ensnared many pages focused on ensuring diversity in drug trials.

The scrubbing could affect the ways researchers and companies test drugs and medical devices

www.statnews.com/2025/01/23/f...

Chronic Pain Is a Hidden Epidemic. It’s Time for a Revolution. As many as two billion people suffer from it — including me. Can science finally bring us relief?

Amazing piece on chronic pain and the complications of treating it, living with it, getting people to even see it as real

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/m...

How I Learned to Cycle Like a Dutchman In the bike-friendly Netherlands, cyclists speed down the road without fearing cars. For an American, the prospect is thrilling—and terrifying.

In the bike-friendly Netherlands, cyclists speed down the road without fearing cars. For an American, the prospect is thrilling—and terrifying.

Best Psychiatry Podcasts [2025] Top Shows - Goodpods Discover the top Psychiatry podcasts in 2025. Listen, review and see what Psychiatry podcasts your friends are listening to. | Listen on Goodpods

The Mad in America #podcast is number 1 in #Psychiatry monthly podcast lists and number 8 in #Psychology according to Goodpods.

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Death of the Party | Raven Leilani I was embarrassed. To be grieving incorrectly, to be doing it publicly, to be preoccupied with whether I was doing it well. Dissonance was everywhere. The blunted, abject language of bereavement, and ...

12. what a powerful essay by raven leilani in @nplusonemag.com www.nplusonemag.com/issue-48/ess...

Drugmakers to raise US prices on over 250 medicines starting Jan. 1 Drugmakers plan to raise U.S. prices on at least 250 branded medications including Pfizer COVID-19 treatment Paxlovid, Bristol Myers Squibb's cancer cell therapies and vaccines from France's Sanofi at the start of 2025, according to data analyzed by healthcare research firm 3 Axis Advisors.

www.reuters.com/business/hea...

From Community to Commodity: The Global Takeover of Western Mental Health Models While promising healing, exported Western psychology often reinforces the very inequalities it seeks to address.

From Community to Commodity: The Global Takeover of Western Mental Health Models

While promising healing, exported Western psychology often reinforces the very inequalities it seeks to address.

By Liam Gehrig Bach

www.madinamerica.com/2024/12/from-community-t...