Is our Privilege Killing us?
Let’s check my health privilege: I have no allergies, I’m in possession of my tonsils, appendix, and wisdom teeth, and I have never been hospitalized or so much as broken […]
Author Archives: athenssciencecafe
Know Yourself, Know Your Supreme Court Justice Nominee
On June 27th, 2018 current Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy submitted his letter of retirement to President Trump, to go into effect after July 31st. On Monday, July 9th, President […]
Dead Zones… Are They a Problem?
Continuing from my previous post, I want to talk about real life examples of climate change and its effects on the world around us. The idea for this particular post […]
Fatal Attraction: The Truth Behind Mosquito Bite Preference
For as long as I can remember, they have come for me. They follow me everywhere, stealing a tiny drop of my life force and replacing it with poison before […]
Insect Riddles
Any true Athenian knows that summer means sweat, more sweat and (best of all) insects! Though summers filled with no-see-ums, mosquitoes, gnats and flies may cause you to despair of […]
Take two of what and call you in the morning?
While everyone may not know exactly what antibiotics are or how they work, most people have taken them at some point in their lives. Familiarity with antibiotics stems from the […]
The Science of “The Pill”
The story of oral contraception begins in the early twentieth century when Austrian physiologist, Ludwig Haberlandt, found that female rabbits and guinea pigs became temporarily sterile after the transplantation of […]
End of Net Neutrality is Inevitable, but Open Access is Not
Whether you’re checking your Gmail or streaming the finale of Handmaid’s Tale, your Internet usage is treated equally by the companies that have built the infrastructure of the internet, Internet […]
To vaccinate or not to vaccinate? It’s not just about you.
1.5 million. That number can represent many different things: the population of Philadelphia, the number of classified living species, or the number of tweets Taylor Swift’s Reputation album received in […]
A Tariff-ible Policy
There’s an old joke that goes something like this: teach a parrot to say ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve created an economist. And, honestly, there is some truth to this […]
