Senior Editor, Aeon+Psyche
Pam is an editor and writer specialising in psychology, neuroscience and the sciences. She has previously worked as executive and features editor at Discover, where her acquisitions were widely anthologised and received numerous national awards; a consulting editor at Psychology Today; and in a range of roles at Omni magazine, from senior editor and editor-at-large to founding editor of Omni online. She is author of 16 books on medicine, psychology and lifestyle, including Cure Unknown: Inside the Lyme Epidemic, which won the American Medical Writers Association book award in 2009. She can be found on Twitter @pam3001.
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Neuroscience
Rethinking the homunculus
When we discovered that the brain contained a map of the body it revolutionised neuroscience. But it’s time for an update
Moheb Costandi
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Evolution
Kinship
Science must become attuned to the subtle conversations that pervade all life, from the primordial to the present
David Waltner-Toews
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History of technology
Indexing the information age
Over a weekend in 1995, a small group gathered in Ohio to unleash the power of the internet by making it navigable
Monica Westin
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Stories and literature
The best stories smell
When scents are used to intensify a narrative, they heighten young readers’ emotions and enrich their memory banks
Natalia Kucirkova
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Philosophy of language
Metaphors make the world
Woven into the fabric of language, metaphors shape how we understand reality. What happens when we try using new ones?
Benjamin Santos Genta
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Information and communication
Beware climate populism
The most ardent deniers of anthropogenic climate change today will become the climate conspiracy theorists of tomorrow
Ákos Szegőfi
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Genetics
Artists of our own lives
The genome is the starting point for a performance we enact over a lifetime, not a blueprint we’ve got to follow
Richard O Prum
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Space exploration
Capturing the cosmos
When self-replicating craft bring life to the far Universe, a religious cult, not science, is likely to be the driving force
Jay Olson
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Psychiatry and psychotherapy
Trauma on a loop
I was the victim of a carjacking. The trauma from that experience was unendurable. Then I discovered eye movement therapy
Madison McLoughlin
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Space exploration
The skyhook solution
Space junk surrounds Earth, posing a dangerous threat. But there is a way to turn the debris into opportunity
Angelos Alfatzis
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Ageing and death
Witness the pain
When loved ones are traumatically lost, bereaved families become accidental activists by turning grief into grievance
Chris Bobel
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Race and ethnicity
Battling implicit bias
Training is a cheap solution to a hard problem. It is the systems that allow for biased behaviour that need to change
Jeffrey To