Cancer—a word that often strikes fear—is frequently discussed as if it’s something that can be cured as quickly as we produced the Covid-19 vaccine. However, cancer is not a single disease but a collection of related diseases, each with its own complexities. It is a...
We’re nothing but a footnote in the grand scale of evolution. As Jonathon Kennedy points out in his book Pathogenesis, Homo sapiens have existed for about 300,000 years, while Earth has been around for approximately 4.5 billion years. To put this into perspective, if...
In the late 1950s, under the iron grip of Chairman Mao Zedong, China embarked on a bold and almost fantastical socio-economic experiment known as the Great Leap Forward. This ambitious campaign aimed to catapult the nation from its agrarian roots into the industrial...
