Weekly Digest #176

Something for the weekend:

1. The Two Teabags bringing joy and connection to residents in aged care homes

2. Groundbreaking Brazilian Drug, Considered Capable of Reversing Spinal Cord Injury, Presented in São Paulo

3. ‘Once we discard the heroic scientist model and the myth of tech inevitability, the course of technological and scientific advancement looks less like a railroad track and more like foliage. It has roots and branches that extend in the direction of the resources that feed it’ Link

4. Lessons From Singapore: Small Healthcare Innovations With Big Impact

5. The brain is more like a forest than a circuit board

6. Talking Archives, Diseases, and History with Edna Bonhomme

7. The strangest doctor’s office you’ve ever seen

8. Between being and emptiness

9. Rethinking Educational Theory: Education as Expanding Dialogue

10. Being a Good Philosopher-Activist

11. Stop Meeting Students Where They Are (What I learned when I finally started assigning the hard reading again.)

12. Regenerative Biology’s Baby Steps

13. Compost modernity!

14. America isn’t exceptional — it’s the exception

15. Guarding the guardians - an evolutionary biologist’s analysis of what makes institutions work