Virginia Hughes

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I am a journalist based in Brooklyn, New York. I’ll write about anything, but most of my stories involve genes, brains, or biotech, sometimes all at once. These are my latest.

The Most Beautiful Painting You’ve Ever Heard: Inside Synesthesia

The (Continuing) Tragedy of the Commons

A Varied Menu for Homo’s Cousins

The Super-Nurse

Lead Paint Studies: Finding the Problem, then Fixing It

Student Creates TB Drug Implant

Mutant Fruit Flies Have Genetic Resistance to Alcohol

Shot of Fear

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Only Human

My blog, part of National Geographic Magazine's Phenomena network, explores all things people: our genes, minds, behaviors, and cultures.

RSS Latest posts on Only Human

  • Could DNA Databases Curb Human Trafficking?
  • What You Do Is Who You Are
  • A Motivational Post for Exercise Procrastinators
  • The Jumping Gene: Friend or Foe?
  • Say What You Feel

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WinnerBadgeSmall  Re-Awakenings, a story about a strange sleeping sickness published on The Last Word on Nothing, was deemed best post of 2012 by Science Seeker.
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