Pam Weintraub
Senior Editor, Aeon+Psyche
Pam is an editor and writer specialising in psychology, neuroscience and the sciences. She has previously worked as executive and features editor at Discover, where her acquisitions were widely anthologised and received numerous national awards; a consulting editor at Psychology Today; and in a range of roles at Omni magazine, from senior editor and editor-at-large to founding editor of Omni online. She is author of 16 books on medicine, psychology and lifestyle, including Cure Unknown: Inside the Lyme Epidemic, which won the American Medical Writers Association book award in 2009. She can be found on Twitter @pam3001.
Written by Pam Weintraub
Edited by Pam Weintraub
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Space exploration
Capturing the cosmos
When self-replicating craft bring life to the far Universe, a religious cult, not science, is likely to be the driving force
Jay Olson
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Psychiatry and psychotherapy
Trauma on a loop
I was the victim of a carjacking. The trauma from that experience was unendurable. Then I discovered eye movement therapy
Madison McLoughlin
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Space exploration
The skyhook solution
Space junk surrounds Earth, posing a dangerous threat. But there is a way to turn the debris into opportunity
Angelos Alfatzis
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Ageing and death
Witness the pain
When loved ones are traumatically lost, bereaved families become accidental activists by turning grief into grievance
Chris Bobel
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Race and ethnicity
Battling implicit bias
Training is a cheap solution to a hard problem. It is the systems that allow for biased behaviour that need to change
Jeffrey To
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Psychiatry and psychotherapy
Psychosis and psychedelics
In the 1960s, psychedelic research was driven underground. Now it’s re-emerging – with lessons for the study of psychosis
Phoebe Friesen
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Love and friendship
Loved, yet lonely
You might have the unconditional love of family and friends and yet feel deep loneliness. Can philosophy explain why?
Kaitlyn Creasy
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Work
Disengage
Modern life subjects us to all-consuming demands. That’s why we should reflect on what it means to step away from it all
David J Siegel
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Consciousness and altered states
Déjà vu
Have you been here before? The eerie sensation is the shadow of your mind searching inward for clues to its own survival
Anne Cleary
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Astronomy
Panspermia
It’s possible that frozen worlds with subterranean oceans are incubators of organic life. But then how did life get here?
Balazs Bradak
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Medicine
Physician, invade thyself
Eager for medical breakthroughs, some doctors take enormous risks experimenting on themselves. Should we celebrate them?
Tom Doyle
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Music
To the tune of dystonia
One day, my hand stopped speaking to my brain. As a doctor and flute player, I had to understand this strange affliction
Lynn Hallarman