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Business News > Mint Authors > Faye Flam

Faye Flam

ARTICLES BY FAYE FLAM

Just look at the meteoric rise of pickleball, another sport in which men and women commonly compete together, or the popularity of e-sports, which aren’t sex-segregated.

The world must welcome the ascent of mixed-gender sports

3 min read . 14 Sept 2023

Over the last several decades, “man the hunter” has been debunked many times. (Photo: Duncan Thomsen/SWNS)

Stone age myths about gender roles have been hard to dispel

3 min read . 14 Aug 2023

Scientists are worried about regional changes that tip into global catastrophes.

The Earth’s climate is getting too close to a hot tipping point

3 min read . 21 Jul 2023

Global ‘heating’ might be a better term than ‘warming’ for oceans (Photo: AFP)

El Niño amid heating oceans: We’re now in uncharted waters

3 min read . 12 May 2023

Let reliable insights guide the battle against misinformation

Let reliable insights guide the battle against misinformation

3 min read . 16 Apr 2023

AI is fast closing in on high-level tasks long entrusted to human beings (Photo: iStock)

Artificial intelligence can help us humans vet research papers

3 min read . 20 Mar 2023

Vaccines against viruses could possibly prevent some serious diseases (Photo: Mint)

Long covid studies may teach us how to take on Alzheimer’s

3 min read . 30 Jan 2023

Make Sunsets went ahead on its own to release stratospheric coolants

Private geo-engineers are just winging it to shade the planet

4 min read . 12 Jan 2023

Scare stories about covid jabs have again got circulated in the US

No, vaccines are not making variants of Sars-CoV-2 worse

3 min read . 08 Jan 2023

Covid has weakened the esteem in which experts are held by the public (Photo: Mint)

The divide between expertise and puffery is getting blurrier

3 min read . 09 Nov 2022

Sars-CoV-2 puts people at threat of blood clots, strokes and heart attacks (Photo: iStock)

Anyone who’s had covid must watch out for stroke symptoms

4 min read . 08 Nov 2022

Pandemic fatigue has meant we’re losing track of its status

Monitor wastewater for covid levels as testing rates drop off

3 min read . 31 Oct 2022

‘Gain of function’ virology research could be especially risky (Photo: Bloomberg)

Ensure that lab-grown viruses do not get a chance to escape

3 min read . 20 Oct 2022

The US death toll is at a plateau higher than what experts expected (Photo: AP)

Who is still dying from covid in America remains a mystery

4 min read . 21 Sept 2022

Denial of global warming has clearly fallen but that’s not saying much (Photo: AFP)

Covid and climate change pose similar behavioural challenges

3 min read . 23 Aug 2022

Public health guidance has turned fuzzy while people are fed up bloomberg (Photo: Bloomberg)

Confusion prevails over covid protocols as public fears wane

4 min read . 13 Jun 2022

Outdoors are far safer than indoor spaces from a covid perspective (Photo: Bloomberg)

The covid pandemic’s biggest mistake continues to haunt us

3 min read . 28 Apr 2022

It’s a reasonable assumption that masks help but it needs to be tested (Photo: AFP)

We lack research data on how masks help us keep covid away

4 min read . 21 Apr 2022

Human genetic diversity may work as a kind of bulwark against the pandemic (Photo: Getty)

The medical mystery of some people’s resistance to covid-19

4 min read . 14 Apr 2022

Covid alterations are too subtle for clear conclusions to be drawn (Photo: iStock)

We should not exaggerate the covid impact on human brains

4 min read . 22 Mar 2022