While You’re At School – Children’s Book Review
September is the beginning of the school year in many parts of the world. Some caregivers had to ease the ...
Tag: Edmund Weisberg
Transcendent: Coming into One’s Own by Coming Out as Trans
In gay culture, the expression “coming out” was initially borrowed from the world of debutante balls. But in the 1960s, ...
IMPAKTER ESSAY: Water, Water: Everywhere, Nowhere, and Such High Prices
Water is life’s matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water. –Albert Szent-Györgi, 1937 winner of ...
IMPAKTER ESSAY: Vaccination, Medical Tourism, and the Expansion of Global Bioethics
In 2003, the Concorde stopped ferrying international passengers across the Atlantic Ocean at supersonic speeds, while metaphorically demonstrating how much ...
Impakter Essay: Angel of Equity — Questioning Motives and the Need for Global Bioethics to Regulate Big Pharma
Bioterrorist? Bane of “Big Pharma”? Angel of equity? Industry gadfly? Unrealistic idealist? I have no doubt that some pharmaceutical industry ...
It’s Never Too Late to Come Out
Multi-pronged civil rights movements during the last few decades have managed to chip away at prejudice An interview with John Siegfried ...
Impakter Essay: The Obesity Epidemic
Convergence of Culture, Commerce, and Communications An epidemic of obesity has been acknowledged for several years in the US, with ...
Still Craven After All These Years
It was tantamount to a Friday afternoon “news dump.” On Monday, December 21, 2015—amidst the final build-up to Christmas and ...
Change Is Inevitable, But Need it Be Lethal?
Heraclitus, a Greek philosopher who lived circa 535 to 475 BCE, is credited with the statement, “No man ever steps ...
Like the Pope, Climate Change Will Not Be Ignored
Though Pope Francis had speaking engagements and meetings in the United States commercial capital of New York City and its ...
