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Ear Infections and Traditional Chinese Medicine

The following is based on Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). TCM is based on the observation that everything is a combination of opposites: yin (cold, purifying) and yang (hot, uplifting), many of which we control through diet, exercise, sex, environment, thought, and so on. There are two types of ear infections, inflammation (otitis): external and internal. […]

Our COVID Vocabulary Needs a Reset

One of the best and toughest parts of being a science writer is acting as a kind of jargon liaison. Weird, obscure, aggressively multisyllabic words appear in scientific discourse; I, wielding nothing but a Google Doc, a cellphone, and the Powers of the Internet™, wrest these terms from their academic hidey-holes and try to pin […]