Rethinking pregnancy and the nervous system

Our entire understanding of pregnancy’s first trimester might need radically to change A deceptively calm but profoundly probing proposal essay was our first draft text this month. The essay spanned medicine, ancient philosophy, and motherhood-related personal traumas to ponder new interventions for the first trimester of pregnancy. The author wrote that the first trimester is…

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Using the old to explain the new

We kicked off the new year with another fantastic workshop, this time with an added bonus: an online art video presented by visiting student Eva Vu-Stern. The piece was inspired by a course at Columbia University, led by one of the world’s most successful living science communicators: theoretical physicist Brian Greene. We enjoyed hearing about…

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