BONUS: What Carl Zimmer Learned About DNA, Identity, and Heredity
The best-selling author and New York Times columnist shares stories, jokes, and lessons learned from writing his latest book about heredity.
BONUS: What Carl Zimmer Learned About DNA, Identity, and Heredity
Identity
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Power Players: U.S. Football and French Rugby
Sports have been tied to power as long as they’ve been played. For modern-day athletes, how does their power extend beyond the field?
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Closer to Home
What can squatting—occupying otherwise unoccupied buildings without any title, right, or payment—teach us about how cities work?
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Confronting the Specter of Cultural Appropriation
From Halloween costumes to haute couture, ethnic foods to movies, the danger of appropriating another culture seems to be everywhere. How do we weigh the difference between celebrating and stealing someone else’s culture?
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Ancestry Tests Pose a Threat to Our Social Fabric
Commercial DNA testing isn’t just harmless entertainment. It’s keeping alive ideas that deserve to die.
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Is Your DNA You?
Anthropologists wrestle with the complexities of commercial DNA testing.