Weekly Digest #173

Something for the weekend:

1. Human hair grows through ‘pulling’ not pushing, study shows

2. A lot of population numbers are fake (Do we have any idea how many people there are in the world?)

3. Welcome to post-Darwinism: AI fires silver bullet for creating new life. In a breakthrough experiment, molecular biologists and tech entrepreneurs have teamed up to write the genetic code of a virus that destroys killer bacteria Link

4. How Generative AI in Healthcare Mobilises Its Assemblages

5. The housewife is a Victorian invention

6. ‘This might be the most important year of your career. Work accordingly’ Link and this

7. Addressing ableism in healthcare: integrating critical disability theory into health services research

8. India Cuts Healthcare Burden as Out-of-Pocket Costs Drop Sharply

9. ‘We need a government that can hold two truths at once: the immediate, visible urgencies (cost of living, housing, NHS waits) and the structural shifts already transforming what “work” and “opportunity” mean. These aren’t competing priorities — they’re the same priority seen from two distances’ Link

10. Sauna science and this

11. Reflections on Healthism and Medicalization 45 Years Later

12. Philosophy and Clinical Reasoning in Rehabilitation Sciences: Bridging the Gap

13. Critical Pedagogy in Health Education (2014–2025): A Scoping Review of Themes, Trends and Transformations

14. ‘Phenomenology and Medicine. Exploring the Lived Experience of Illness and Care’ – June 8-12, 2026. Palazzo Mauri in Spoleto

15. An interdisciplinary perspective of the built-environment microbiome