by Heather Zeiger | Feb 23, 2018 | Announcements, Bioethics, Ethics, Society
What does crowdfunding have to do with medical ethics? More than you would think. The number one type of crowdfunding campaign on sites like GoFundMe is medical expenses. Crowdfunding brings up several ethical issues such as medical privacy, emotional manipulation,...
by Heather Zeiger | Feb 23, 2018 | Announcements, Society, Technology
I recently wrote an article in MercatorNet about ways you can take back your time by taking control of your technology. This starts by recognizing that our smart phones and the apps that we seemingly can’t live without are designed to hook us. The goal is to get...
by Heather Zeiger | Feb 8, 2018 | Announcements, Salvo, Society
My latest Casualty Report has recent statistics on pornography and its affects on society. The title of the article comes from the hypothetical scenario I draw of an alien that visits Earth and found that in one year humans watched 4.6 billion hours of pornography....
by Heather Zeiger | Oct 25, 2017 | Announcements, Society
My latest article at MercatorNet, Taking Apart the News Cycle Merry-Go-Round, is on a topic that I had been thinking about for a while. The news media seems to thrive on keeping the viewer, or reader, in a constant state of anxiety as we are taken on perpetual guilt...
by Heather Zeiger | Aug 7, 2017 | Announcements, Society, Technology
I’ve written critically on how social media and the gaming industry uses psychological hacks to get people hooked, but is there a positive side to hacking our brains? Gamification is using gaming techniques to motivate users to do things they may not otherwise...
by Heather Zeiger | Apr 5, 2017 | Announcements, Book Review, Science, Society, Technology
This first of two articles I review Sharon Begley’s book Can’t Just Stop: An Investigation into Compulsions. Begley says that our need to check our cell phone every five minutes is not an addiction, but a compulsion. Begley is a science writer and has...
