Suman Dhar
Is Your Destiny Written in DNA? A Review of Siddhartha Mukherjee’s “The Gene”
Whereas the twentieth century could be described as the age of the splitting of atoms and the creation of the digital bits...
Can You Eat Your Way to a Longer Life? A Review of Michael Greger’s “How Not to Die”
Should one be browsing the selection in the health and wellness department of a Canadian bookstore, "How Not to Die"...
Your Body Explained Like Never Before: A Fascinating Tour from Head to Toe
If you were to take your body to a hardware store in an attempt to price out the various elements within...
The Nightly Elixir: Why Sleep is the Billion-Dollar Secret to Living Longer
What if there was a tool, a biological tool, that was part of all of our makeup, which could improve your memory...
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down By Anne Fadiman
Midnight lights buzz at a pitch found only in hospitals. Inside Merced Community Medical Center’s ER...
The Emperor of All Maladies By Siddhartha Mukherjee
Cancer’s Biography: A Pulitzer-Winning Saga of Humanity’s Greatest Foe...
Book Review: “Do No Harm” by Henry Marsh
When the line between saving a life and ruining one is a single millimetre...
Book Review: Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
The room is lit by harsh fluorescent bulbs, the kind that wash colour from faces...
Book Review: ‘Bad Science’ by Ben Goldacre
A Tour Through the World of Quacks, Claims, and Questionable Cures...
One Year of Magazica: From a Spark to a Movement
A year ago, I couldn’t have imagined how one conversation between two instructors...
Book Review: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
Journey into the Mind's Uncharted Territories: A Neurologist’s Poignant Tales of...
“Being Mortal” by Atul Gawande
The Elephant in the Hospital Room: Why Longer Life Isn’t Always Better...
