Papers by Josie Glausiusz
East End Women's Museum , 2016
My grandmother Amelia (Millie) Harris was born on January 23, 1906 at City of London Lying-In Hos... more My grandmother Amelia (Millie) Harris was born on January 23, 1906 at City of London Lying-In Hospital at 228 Old Street, the daughter of Russian immigrants. She died in January 2004, at the age of 98, after a long and rich life as a garment worker, insurance agent, and co-owner of a dressmaking business.
Nature, 2024
Scientists, tech entrepreneurs and educators on both sides of the border describe the devastation... more Scientists, tech entrepreneurs and educators on both sides of the border describe the devastation of lost homes, destroyed laboratories and slain colleagues.
Nature , 2024
Review in Nature of The Burning Earth: A History, by Sunil Amrith
W. W. Norton (2024)
Nature, 2024
My review of "Unrooted: Botany, Motherhood and the Fight to Save an Old Science," by Erin Zimmerm... more My review of "Unrooted: Botany, Motherhood and the Fight to Save an Old Science," by Erin Zimmerman.
A moving, beautifully-written and illustrated memoir of botany and motherhood.
Reader's Digest , 2024
When my sunny 12-year-old son was ill with a rare form of brain cancer, I opened a Whatsapp group... more When my sunny 12-year-old son was ill with a rare form of brain cancer, I opened a Whatsapp group called "Poetry is Medicine" where I shared poems with friends. The poems and the support of the group offered me an anchor, even as my son died tragically in March, 2023.
Nature, 2024
On 30 January, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed that the plan to flood tunnels under the... more On 30 January, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed that the plan to flood tunnels under the Gaza Strip, a strategy that has been the subject of rumours since December, is being implemented at a number of undisclosed locations.
However, some water researchers are warning that flooding tunnels with seawater could have a devastating effect on Gaza’s already scarce freshwater supplies.
Nature, 2024
An interview with molecular biologist Elisabetta Citterio, who explains why she felt compelled to... more An interview with molecular biologist Elisabetta Citterio, who explains why she felt compelled to photograph 57 women who work in STEM fields.
NZZ am Sonntag, 2023
When my treasured 12-year-old son died in March 2023 from a rare form of brain cancer, friends of... more When my treasured 12-year-old son died in March 2023 from a rare form of brain cancer, friends often found it difficult to know how to react. Here is my personal guide on what to say and what not to say.
Nature, 2023
The deadly 7 October Hamas attacks on Israel, and Israel’s bombardment of Gaza, have upended live... more The deadly 7 October Hamas attacks on Israel, and Israel’s bombardment of Gaza, have upended lives — including those of researchers throughout the region.
Nature, 2023
The female perspective is often missed in evolutionary tales, but it is at the centre of what mak... more The female perspective is often missed in evolutionary tales, but it is at the centre of what makes us human.
Washington Post, 2023
A month before my treasured 12-year-old son died from a rare form of brain cancer, I started a po... more A month before my treasured 12-year-old son died from a rare form of brain cancer, I started a poetry Whatsapp group in which I posted a daily poem. The poems offered me an anchor and a community of friends.
Nature, 2023
Could fresh water dragged from the poles slake the world's thirst? By Josie Glausiusz Some are al... more Could fresh water dragged from the poles slake the world's thirst? By Josie Glausiusz Some are already at it-and not just epicureans quaffing Svalbarði. In Newfoundland, Canada, Birkhold interviews "iceberg cowboy" Ed Kean, who wrangles bergs from the frigid sea, selling the water to cosmetics companies and breweries. In Qaanaaq, Greenland's northernmost town, Birkhold notes, the public water supply includes filtered and treated iceberg melt. There's more where that came from. By one estimate, some 2,300 cubic kilometres of ice breaks off from Antarctica every year. More
National Geographic, 2023
Planted in the 1960s by the Jewish National Fund (JNF), a non-profit land development agency that... more Planted in the 1960s by the Jewish National Fund (JNF), a non-profit land development agency that manages more than a tenth of the country, Yatir is Israel’s largest planted forest. Had these hillls been left alone, they might be covered in low shrubs like Jerusalem sage and hairy bread-grass. Instead, four million trees, 90 percent of them hardy Aleppo pine, spread over almost 12 square miles of semi-arid land.
Nature, 2022
The lead palaeontologist “celebrated his eureka by kindling a fire with 45-million-year-old twigs... more The lead palaeontologist “celebrated his eureka by kindling a fire with 45-million-year-old twigs [found on Axel Heiberg Island] and boiling water for tea time,” writes historian Jared Farmer in Elderflora, his expansive global history of grand and venerable trees.
Granted, these plants had been dead since the Eocene epoch. Nevertheless, as the author describes, the incident is part of a troubling pattern in which scientists rejoice at their discovery of the ‘oldest’ tree of their time — and then destroy it.
Neue Zürcher Zeitung am Sonntag, 2022
If a child falls seriously ill, friends of affected families often lack the right words. I wrote ... more If a child falls seriously ill, friends of affected families often lack the right words. I wrote a guide from a personal point of view: "The most important words we need to hear are «we wish your son a speedy and complete recovery." But don't ask questions about the tumor type, such as, 'Is it malignant?'"
Neue Zürcher Zeitung am Sonntag, 2022
When your child is diagnosed with a tumor, friends are not always sure how to react. Although the... more When your child is diagnosed with a tumor, friends are not always sure how to react. Although they mean well, they sometimes say inappropriate things. Science journalist Josie Glausiusz has written a personal guide on what to say and what not to say.
BBC Future, 2022
More and more children are experiencing "eco-anxiety": a chronic fear of environmental doom. But ... more More and more children are experiencing "eco-anxiety": a chronic fear of environmental doom. But some are converting their panic into a force for good.
Nature , 2022
Global population is crashing, soaring and moving:
From Japan to Yemen, India to Ukraine, rates o... more Global population is crashing, soaring and moving:
From Japan to Yemen, India to Ukraine, rates of births, deaths and displacement are reshaping nations.
Nature, 2022
Indigenous peoples of the Arctic — including the Sámi of Finland, Norway and Sweden, the Chukchi ... more Indigenous peoples of the Arctic — including the Sámi of Finland, Norway and Sweden, the Chukchi and Nenets of Russia and the Inuit of Alaska, Canada and Greenland — have lived in the north for thousands of years. For others, especially racist eugenicists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the north symbolized Utopia, the incubator of a ‘master race’.
Bernd Brunner untangles the origin of these pseudoscientific ideas, from the veneration of the Vikings and Old Norse sagas to the doctrine of ‘Nordic’ superiority promoted by Nazi ideologues.
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Papers by Josie Glausiusz
A moving, beautifully-written and illustrated memoir of botany and motherhood.
However, some water researchers are warning that flooding tunnels with seawater could have a devastating effect on Gaza’s already scarce freshwater supplies.
Granted, these plants had been dead since the Eocene epoch. Nevertheless, as the author describes, the incident is part of a troubling pattern in which scientists rejoice at their discovery of the ‘oldest’ tree of their time — and then destroy it.
From Japan to Yemen, India to Ukraine, rates of births, deaths and displacement are reshaping nations.
Bernd Brunner untangles the origin of these pseudoscientific ideas, from the veneration of the Vikings and Old Norse sagas to the doctrine of ‘Nordic’ superiority promoted by Nazi ideologues.
A moving, beautifully-written and illustrated memoir of botany and motherhood.
However, some water researchers are warning that flooding tunnels with seawater could have a devastating effect on Gaza’s already scarce freshwater supplies.
Granted, these plants had been dead since the Eocene epoch. Nevertheless, as the author describes, the incident is part of a troubling pattern in which scientists rejoice at their discovery of the ‘oldest’ tree of their time — and then destroy it.
From Japan to Yemen, India to Ukraine, rates of births, deaths and displacement are reshaping nations.
Bernd Brunner untangles the origin of these pseudoscientific ideas, from the veneration of the Vikings and Old Norse sagas to the doctrine of ‘Nordic’ superiority promoted by Nazi ideologues.