Whenever a mass shooting occurs, a debate about gun violence ensues. An often-cited counter to the point about the United…
Everyone knows that the word ‘best’ is subjective. That said, here are a few best-of-Humanosphere story lists for 2014 we…
Thirty years after Do They Know It’s Christmas? was recorded to raise money for the Ethiopian famine, the song is…
Editor’s note: Dr. William Foege is the physician-epidemiologist credited with devising the strategy that rid the world of smallpox, former…
Thea is a 12-year-old girl from Norway. On Saturday, she will marry her fiancé, Geir, a thirty-seven year-old man. The…
This week’s podcast features the Nobel Prize-winning scientist and AIDS activist, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, who was in Seattle this week for a…
I was called out for the ice bucket challenge two weeks ago. Until today, I did nothing. In this column, I…
Researchers from many corners of the world, including the Nobel Prize winning co-discoverer of the AIDS virus Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, are in…
This week, a drawn chimp features as the sole image on the cover of Newsweek. The article and cover image now…
The above video has been making the rounds the past few days. It is a segment from a Dutch online…