Emily Willingham
Writer, San Francisco Bay Area
Emily Willingham is an American writer. She is the author of Phallacy: Life Lessons from the Animal Penis (2020) and The Tailored Brain: From Ketamine, to Keto, to Companionship, A User’s Guide to Feeling Better and Thinking Smarter (2021). She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Written by Emily Willingham
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Technology and the self
Help! Brain overload
As tasks mount up, our brain’s ability to juggle goes down. Neuroergonomic tactics can relieve the cognitive burden
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Biology
The penis: a life
Boned, spined, spiked, corkscrewed or double-headed: why did so much variety arise when a simple tube would do?
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Medicine
The right to know, or not know, the data from medical research
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Gender and identity
The non-binary brain
Misogynists are fascinated by the idea that human brains are biologically male or female. But they’ve got the science wrong
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