Sunday, May 12, 2024
In the United States, a peculiar taboo stands firm. The taboo of people eating their pets, especially cats and dogs. This societal norm appears contradictory as various carnivore movements engage in elaborate and often provocative demonstrations of their indifference towards consuming animals such as calves or lambs, yet recoil in […]
A recent HBO series named The Last of Us received widespread acclaim among viewers. The show background describes the post-apocalyptic world after a fungus pathogen Cordyceps infects humans and controls their minds to assist the fungus’s reproduction. The same kind of fungus exists in the real world. Thankfully, it […]
Amidst the Covid outbreak, the Wuhan lab leak theory sparked extensive debate, speculation, and controversy. A key focus was the gain-of-function research conducted in the lab. The field of gain of function began in 2011 when researchers from the US, the Netherlands, and Japan investigated a type of virus, […]
On a cold morning in 1950, a truck carrying a stack of oil drums reversed onto a jetty. Soldiers dismounted and rolled the drums into the ocean. Despite their efforts, a handful of drums retained some air and refused to sink. The soldiers opened fire on the drums, allowing the […]
Vaccines, one of the greatest achievements in the history of medicine, trace their origins across a somewhat unconventional lineage. The practice of vaccinations had rather humble beginnings in ancient China and India, where variolation—the process of exposing individuals to smallpox scabs or pus—was used as a means of disease prevention […]