Articles in the Past Events Category
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When: Monday, June 21st 7-9 PM
What: The Decision Tree: Gameshow Version!
Who: Thomas Goetz, Executive Editor, WIRED. Author of new book “The Decision Tree”.
Where: Atlas Cafe, 3049 20th St @ Alabama St. in the Mission District
The Deets:
When it comes to our health, we’re often overwhelmed, scared and confused about how to mind it – so we don’t. Thomas Goetz will explain how personalized medicine isn’t just about tailor-made drugs; it’s about our personal data. We now have the technology to track and collect this valuable personal information, leading us to possibly …
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The study of sexual physiology—what happens, and why, and how to make it happen better—has been going on for centuries, behind the closed doors of laboratories, brothels, Alfred Kinsey’s attic, and, more recently, MRI centers, pig farms, and sex-toy R&D labs. I spent two years wheedling and conniving my way behind those doors to bring you the answers to the questions Dr. Ruth never asked. Is your penis three inches longer than you think? Is vaginal orgasm a myth? Can a dead man get an erection? Why doesn’t Viagra help women—or, for that matter, pandas?
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Molecular biologist Elizabeth Blackburn—one of Time magazine’s 100 “Most Influential People in the World” in 2007—made headlines in 2004 when she was dismissed from the President’s Council on Bioethics after objecting to the council’s call for a moratorium on stem cell research and protesting the suppression of relevant scientific evidence in its final report. Catherine Brady tells the story of Elizabeth Blackburn’s life and work and the emergence of a new field of scientific research on the specialized ends of chromosomes and the telomerase enzyme that extends them.
