Please check out my article “Neurofibromatosis survivor: Please wear a mask to prevent COVID-19” on Cancerwise a blog with the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. It continues to amaze me that people don’t understand that if we could… Read More ›
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Pale Blue Dot (Carl Sagan Cover)
Please check out my latest video editing project. A reading from Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot with music and video footage added. Thanks! Dr. Andrew Joseph Pegoda
Microblogs: What it means when we say sex is a social construction
Since J.K. Rowling’s (yes, that J.K. Rowling) transphobic tweet last week, conversations on Twitter around topics of sex, gender, and trans individuals have been going on nonstop. Far too many of these conversations are transphobic and show stubborn disregard for any… Read More ›
Neurofibromatosis Survivor: Snapshots from an MD Anderson Patient Who Doesn’t have Cancer
Good morning! My most recent publication is now live. This one is published on the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center’s Cancerwise. Neurofibromatosis Survivor: Snapshots from an MD Anderson Patient Who Doesn’t have Cancer I hope you enjoy! Dr. Andrew… Read More ›
Notes on: “They” as a Gender
Just as with countless other words in English and in other languages, the word “they” does not have any one meaning, nor is its meaning fixed in time. The dictionary defines they as follows: And as will be clear to more… Read More ›
Retraction: Brains, Politics, and Essentialism
In three previous blogs (here, here, and here), I made statements I can no longer stand by. (I should have made this post a long time ago, but until a conversation in the past few weeks, I had forgotten I… Read More ›
Book Review–“Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know About the Emerging Science of Sex Differences”
Last night I read Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know About the Emerging Science of Sex Differences published by Penguin Books. The author–Leonard Sax–has a Ph.D. and a M.D., so I expected a monograph of quality. However, I’ve never… Read More ›
Difference, Intelligence, and Life
Crows, scientists say, are as smart as the typical five-to-seven year-old. Any comment about the “intelligence” any kind of “life” has or does not have is immediately problematic–and human-centric. The more we learn about other forms of life, the more… Read More ›