Perfect Pitch
New research shows perfect pitch is teachable to adults as well. Experts discuss the implications on all forms of learning.
Organ Thieves: The First Human Heart Transplant in the South
An investigative journalist explains how a black man’s heart was harvested without his family’s consent for the first human heart transplant in the South, and how incidents such as this help to explain ongoing African-American distrust of medicine.
Medical Notes: Week of October 18, 2020
The leaders of two of the nation’s leading science advisory groups are warning about what they call “Alarming political interference” in the government’s response to Covid-19. Then, one reason people oppose action on climate change is that it’s more expensive than doing nothing, at least in the short term. And finally… if you plan on having any trick or treaters this year… a word of warning about black licorice, especially if you figure on eating the leftover candy yourself.
