Sarah Zhang

@sarahzhang

staff writer , eukaryote // email: szhang@theatlantic.com

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  1. 3 hours ago

    The only thing worst than being stuck on a plane is probably being stuck with dozens of sick people

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  2. 9 hours ago

    Musk oxen were wiped out of Alaska in the 19th century, and the plan to bring them back was oh my god absolutely horrifying

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  3. 9 hours ago

    "I am ashamed to play Pokémon Go at an Unmarked Slave Graveyard, and I am also ashamed that without Pokémon Go, I may never have known that there is this small memorial in my neighborhood."

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    Sep 4

    Here’s what happens when Facebook infiltrates every level of a democracy. My feature—after a visit to my home country and many months of reporting—on Facebook and the Philippines

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  5. Aug 31

    "sometimes I’ll have dreams in the middle of the night. I’m standing there on Mars next to her, and wiping the dust off her lenses"

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    Aug 29

    "...Even today, hematologists will tell women, 'Well, hemophilia affects men. You’re just a carrier.'” Snippet from recent piece by that touches on gender bias in the doctor's office, check out my article to learn more!

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    Aug 29

    One quote that didn't make it in was a history teacher who had basically completely switched to using articles from the BBC to teach about American historical events, since students were unfamiliar w/ the UK outlet and wouldn't react with calls of bias

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  8. Aug 29

    "I am hemophilia. I don’t have it. I am hemophilia. So when they come to me and say, 'We’ve got a genetic cure for hemophilia,' to me, that’s just as weird as if you said you’ve got a genetic cure on the horizon for your left foot."

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    Aug 29
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    I think about this issue every time I see one of those videos of a kid with a cochlear implant hearing for the first time, and how it must make Deaf people feel.

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  10. Aug 29

    On related note, I've written about how members of the blind community reacted to the $1 million price tag of a gene therapy for inherited blindness. (It now costs $850,000)

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  11. Aug 29

    It reminds me of research suggesting that blindness simulations makes people judge disability people as *less* capable. Being newly blind is a different than living with blindness.

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  12. Aug 29

    Like this point about how the able-bodied think of disease or disability

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  13. Aug 29

    I spoke to a hemophilia patient about why he isn't interested in gene therapy or gene editing for a cure. He had some really thought-provoking things to say:

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  14. Aug 28

    "In 1873, the Japanese government abolished the samurai’s role in the imperial army...Several prominent former samurai became chicken farmers and successfully established large chicken operations"

    My article on the history of the chicken industry in Japan was just published in *Japanese Studies*. Lots of cool history in here: samurai chicken farmers, how chicken husbandry adapted to WWII, and the rise of KFC Japan. Here's a link to the article
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  15. Aug 27

    "Eliseo Cárdenas Sánchez was browsing Facebook late one night in March when he landed on a series of photos: snapshots of his father’s identification card and a small pile of bones."

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  16. Aug 27

    Let them eat poop

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  17. Aug 27

    "yeah mammals really had some weird situations going on for a while" "marsupials are wild" "tbh we think monotremes are weird but they make more sense" -

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  18. Aug 24

    the problems with using dogs to sniff out C. diff: - “The dogs found it hard to pass a toilet without drinking out of it" - "[Chase] was way more interested in the breakfast tray than he was in trying to find C. difficile spores."

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  19. Aug 24

    "Processed foods look wholesome compared to your processed data, scattered to the winds of a thousand databases. Everything you have done has been recorded, munged, and spat back at you to benefit sellers, advertisers & the brokers who service them" 🌭 🧀🍟

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    Aug 24

    Proving once again that is alive: It turns out, fog is positively teeming with microbes from the ocean

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