Category: TPWKY Book Club

For much of history, female reproductive anatomy has been studied only in the context of or in comparison to male reproductive anatomy. […]

Everyone’s got a favorite disease movie. What’s yours? Does it feature zombies like 28 Days Later (2002), or is it more grounded […]

In February 2012, Paul Volkman was sentenced to four consecutive terms of life imprisonment for his role in illegally prescribing and dispensing […]

We really don’t give fungi the credit they deserve. Over the years of this podcast, we’ve covered only a handful of fungal […]

When the Massachusetts Institute of Technology admitted in 1999 that they had discriminated against women on its faculty, it sent shockwaves throughout […]

How is it that we can’t remember where we put our keys or the name of the person we just met, but […]

Phosphorus is an element that wears many faces. Its overuse as a fertilizer has polluted freshwater ecosystems, transforming rivers and lakes from […]

In the pre-antibiotic era, tuberculosis was one of the biggest killers humanity ever faced. The specter of the ‘great white plague’ hung […]

Roads are essential to our modern lives, so much so that they largely exist in the background of our minds. When we […]

Going to the doctor is probably not at the top of anyone’s list of enjoyable activities, but when we do go, we […]