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Saloni's guide to data visualization • Why data visualization matters, and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful.
Saloni's guide to data visualization
Why data visualization matters, and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful.
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December 9, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Saloni's guide to data visualization • Why data visualization matters, and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful.
Proteins, weird blobs that do important things
Proteins, weird blobs that do important things
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November 18, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Proteins, weird blobs that do important things
What's new in biology: summer 2025 • The first gonorrhea vaccination program, contact lenses that see infrared light, the protein behind sweet tastes, a baby cured with gene therapy, and more
What's new in biology: summer 2025
The first gonorrhea vaccination program, contact lenses that see infrared light, the protein behind sweet tastes, a baby cured with gene therapy, and more
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November 18, 2025 at 10:32 AM
What's new in biology: summer 2025 • The first gonorrhea vaccination program, contact lenses that see infrared light, the protein behind sweet tastes, a baby cured with gene therapy, and more
Hard Drugs, my new podcast with Jacob Trefethen, and the story of a drug that could end AIDS. • How to speed up medical innovation, how to scale it up, and how to make sure lifesaving tools reach the people who need them the most.
Hard Drugs, my new podcast with Jacob Trefethen, and the story of a drug that could end AIDS.
How to speed up medical innovation, how to scale it up, and how to make sure lifesaving tools reach the people who need them the most.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Hard Drugs, my new podcast with Jacob Trefethen, and the story of a drug that could end AIDS. • How to speed up medical innovation, how to scale it up, and how to make sure lifesaving tools reach the people who need them the most.
What's new in biology • Return of the screwworm, new DNA vaccines, gene editing at scale, and more
What's new in biology
Return of the screwworm, new DNA vaccines, gene editing at scale, and more
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November 18, 2025 at 10:32 AM
What's new in biology • Return of the screwworm, new DNA vaccines, gene editing at scale, and more
The decline in cancer mortality is about much more than smoking • I respond to the claim that the decline in cancer mortality is mostly, or almost entirely, just because of the decline in smoking.
The decline in cancer mortality is about much more than smoking
I respond to the claim that the decline in cancer mortality is mostly, or almost entirely, just because of the decline in smoking.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:32 AM
The decline in cancer mortality is about much more than smoking • I respond to the claim that the decline in cancer mortality is mostly, or almost entirely, just because of the decline in smoking.
We don't have to sit back and just watch the horror unfold
We don't have to sit back and just watch the horror unfold
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November 18, 2025 at 10:32 AM
We don't have to sit back and just watch the horror unfold
Five medical breakthroughs in 2024 • It's December, and time for a retrospective on some breakthroughs in medical innovation this year.
Five medical breakthroughs in 2024
It's December, and time for a retrospective on some breakthroughs in medical innovation this year.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Five medical breakthroughs in 2024 • It's December, and time for a retrospective on some breakthroughs in medical innovation this year.
Four charts to understand causes of death across the lifespan: A dataviz walkthrough • The key question I ask myself while making data visualization: What question am I trying to answer?
Four charts to understand causes of death across the lifespan: A dataviz walkthrough
The key question I ask myself while making data visualization: What question am I trying to answer?
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November 18, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Four charts to understand causes of death across the lifespan: A dataviz walkthrough • The key question I ask myself while making data visualization: What question am I trying to answer?
#20: Many great things you missed this year • This week: Birth seasonality, causes of death across the lifespan, progress against HIV/AIDS & cystic fibrosis, very rare infectious form of Alzheimer’s, improvements in cholesterol, and more.
#20: Many great things you missed this year
This week: Birth seasonality, causes of death across the lifespan, progress against HIV/AIDS & cystic fibrosis, very rare infectious form of Alzheimer’s, improvements in cholesterol, and more.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:32 AM
#20: Many great things you missed this year • This week: Birth seasonality, causes of death across the lifespan, progress against HIV/AIDS & cystic fibrosis, very rare infectious form of Alzheimer’s, improvements in cholesterol, and more.
#19: Seven things you didn't know about life expectancy • Life expectancy is being pushed higher. What does this mean, and what does it tell us about the future?
#19: Seven things you didn't know about life expectancy
Life expectancy is being pushed higher. What does this mean, and what does it tell us about the future?
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November 18, 2025 at 10:32 AM
#19: Seven things you didn't know about life expectancy • Life expectancy is being pushed higher. What does this mean, and what does it tell us about the future?
Why we didn't get a malaria vaccine sooner (audio recording)
Why we didn't get a malaria vaccine sooner (audio recording)
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November 18, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Why we didn't get a malaria vaccine sooner (audio recording)
#18: A slice of great things you missed this year • This post: A brain cancer breakthrough, defeating dengue, women's employment, rabies elimination, personality and age, giant virus-like particles, and more.
#18: A slice of great things you missed this year
This post: A brain cancer breakthrough, defeating dengue, women's employment, rabies elimination, personality and age, giant virus-like particles, and more.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:32 AM
#18: A slice of great things you missed this year • This post: A brain cancer breakthrough, defeating dengue, women's employment, rabies elimination, personality and age, giant virus-like particles, and more.
#17: Why we didn't get a malaria vaccine sooner (bonus content) • This week: How to write a 9,000+ word article, fact-checking and history heuristics, and the path to scientific discovery.
#17: Why we didn't get a malaria vaccine sooner (bonus content)
This week: How to write a 9,000+ word article, fact-checking and history heuristics, and the path to scientific discovery.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:32 AM
#17: Why we didn't get a malaria vaccine sooner (bonus content) • This week: How to write a 9,000+ word article, fact-checking and history heuristics, and the path to scientific discovery.
#16: A fraction of great things you missed this year • This week: Death contours, the twin baby boom, good conversations, music and languages, blood pressure drugs, conspiracy theories, Tasmanian devil cancers, cheating viruses, and more.
#16: A fraction of great things you missed this year
This week: Death contours, the twin baby boom, good conversations, music and languages, blood pressure drugs, conspiracy theories, Tasmanian devil cancers, cheating viruses, and more.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:32 AM
#16: A fraction of great things you missed this year • This week: Death contours, the twin baby boom, good conversations, music and languages, blood pressure drugs, conspiracy theories, Tasmanian devil cancers, cheating viruses, and more.
#15: What does it mean when fewer people die? • This week: Different angles on the decline in mortality, clean water, easy ways to save lives, and more.
#15: What does it mean when fewer people die?
This week: Different angles on the decline in mortality, clean water, easy ways to save lives, and more.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:32 AM
#15: What does it mean when fewer people die? • This week: Different angles on the decline in mortality, clean water, easy ways to save lives, and more.
#14: How many people die from snakebites? • This week: Missing data – the most underrated problem in global health.
#14: How many people die from snakebites?
This week: Missing data – the most underrated problem in global health.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:32 AM
#14: How many people die from snakebites? • This week: Missing data – the most underrated problem in global health.
#13: The success of chickenpox vaccines • This week: Why not treat chickenpox and shingles as an avoidable problem? Plus, I have a PhD now.
#13: The success of chickenpox vaccines
This week: Why not treat chickenpox and shingles as an avoidable problem? Plus, I have a PhD now.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:32 AM
#13: The success of chickenpox vaccines • This week: Why not treat chickenpox and shingles as an avoidable problem? Plus, I have a PhD now.
#12: Everything great you missed since November, part one • This week: Declines in cancer, the significance of hospitals, climate & religion, bird maps, gender pay gaps, intelligence & personality, the pyramids of Giza, fun history podcasts, and more.
#12: Everything great you missed since November, part one
This week: Declines in cancer, the significance of hospitals, climate & religion, bird maps, gender pay gaps, intelligence & personality, the pyramids of Giza, fun history podcasts, and more.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:32 AM
#12: Everything great you missed since November, part one • This week: Declines in cancer, the significance of hospitals, climate & religion, bird maps, gender pay gaps, intelligence & personality, the pyramids of Giza, fun history podcasts, and more.
#11: Everything great I've read in the last fortnight • This week: The curve of death, eliminating HIV, the impact of cash donations, lemurs picking their nose, the spread of dumplings, trade, and some cool space photos.
#11: Everything great I've read in the last fortnight
This week: The curve of death, eliminating HIV, the impact of cash donations, lemurs picking their nose, the spread of dumplings, trade, and some cool space photos.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:32 AM
#11: Everything great I've read in the last fortnight • This week: The curve of death, eliminating HIV, the impact of cash donations, lemurs picking their nose, the spread of dumplings, trade, and some cool space photos.
#10: Everything great I've read in the past month • This week: A stream of new vaccines, deaths over the 20th century, how flu became milder, how children reduce crime, how to reduce stomach cancer, and happy capybaras.
#10: Everything great I've read in the past month
This week: A stream of new vaccines, deaths over the 20th century, how flu became milder, how children reduce crime, how to reduce stomach cancer, and happy capybaras.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:32 AM
#10: Everything great I've read in the past month • This week: A stream of new vaccines, deaths over the 20th century, how flu became milder, how children reduce crime, how to reduce stomach cancer, and happy capybaras.