Hannah Seo 서한나
@hannahseo.com
not a search engine optimizer | bylines @nytmag @guardian @theatlantic etc. | science journalist/writer/poet | 🇰🇷🇨🇦 raised in 🇶🇦 Brooklyn based | free Palestine 🇵🇸
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I wrote about Surgeon General nominee Casey Means, her preoccupation with our mitochondrial health, and whether this fixation is justified by science
Mitochondrial health is poised to become a pillar of the MAHA movement, @hannahseo.com reports.
Get Ready to Hear a Lot More About Your Mitochondria
Protecting the powerhouse of the cell is a central mission of MAHA.
bit.ly
June 10, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I wrote about Surgeon General nominee Casey Means, her preoccupation with our mitochondrial health, and whether this fixation is justified by science
For The Atlantic I wrote about Surgeon General nominee Casey Means and her strange fixation on mitochondrial health
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
Get Ready to Hear a Lot More About Your Mitochondria
Protecting the powerhouse of the cell is a central mission of MAHA.
www.theatlantic.com
June 10, 2025 at 12:39 PM
For The Atlantic I wrote about Surgeon General nominee Casey Means and her strange fixation on mitochondrial health
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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The way nobody can drive well anymore because of GPS — not just atrophied turn-by-turn navigation, but the way ppl no longer know the layouts of their town or the names of roads or what to do when the map doesn’t match the terrain — that’s what genAI is doing to communication skills and literacy
June 4, 2025 at 3:15 PM
The way nobody can drive well anymore because of GPS — not just atrophied turn-by-turn navigation, but the way ppl no longer know the layouts of their town or the names of roads or what to do when the map doesn’t match the terrain — that’s what genAI is doing to communication skills and literacy
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What a summary of the anti-trans movement:
March 23rd: female fencer competes in mixed-gender event, beating several male competitors, finishing 8th
March 30th: same fencer films herself telling trans competitor “I am refusing to fence you, because I am a woman and you are a man,” collects $5000
March 23rd: female fencer competes in mixed-gender event, beating several male competitors, finishing 8th
March 30th: same fencer films herself telling trans competitor “I am refusing to fence you, because I am a woman and you are a man,” collects $5000
April 9, 2025 at 9:53 PM
What a summary of the anti-trans movement:
March 23rd: female fencer competes in mixed-gender event, beating several male competitors, finishing 8th
March 30th: same fencer films herself telling trans competitor “I am refusing to fence you, because I am a woman and you are a man,” collects $5000
March 23rd: female fencer competes in mixed-gender event, beating several male competitors, finishing 8th
March 30th: same fencer films herself telling trans competitor “I am refusing to fence you, because I am a woman and you are a man,” collects $5000
One day I was chewing a stick of gum and as it lost all flavor I thought "ugh this tastes like plastic." Then it dawned on me.
I wrote about the critical ingredient that changed the world of modern gum.
I wrote about the critical ingredient that changed the world of modern gum.
Modern gum is being marketed as a panacea for wellness. But it’s really just plastic that we chew on. Hannah Seo reports:
The Most Important Ingredient in Chewing Gum
You’re essentially gnawing on plastic.
www.theatlantic.com
April 4, 2025 at 6:28 PM
One day I was chewing a stick of gum and as it lost all flavor I thought "ugh this tastes like plastic." Then it dawned on me.
I wrote about the critical ingredient that changed the world of modern gum.
I wrote about the critical ingredient that changed the world of modern gum.
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Modern gum is being marketed as a panacea for wellness. But it’s really just plastic that we chew on. Hannah Seo reports:
The Most Important Ingredient in Chewing Gum
You’re essentially gnawing on plastic.
www.theatlantic.com
March 29, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Modern gum is being marketed as a panacea for wellness. But it’s really just plastic that we chew on. Hannah Seo reports:
One day I was chewing a stick of gum and as it lost all flavor I thought "ugh this tastes like plastic." Then it dawned on me.
I wrote about the critical ingredient that changed the world of modern gum.
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
I wrote about the critical ingredient that changed the world of modern gum.
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
The Most Important Ingredient in Chewing Gum
You’re essentially gnawing on plastic.
www.theatlantic.com
April 4, 2025 at 6:26 PM
One day I was chewing a stick of gum and as it lost all flavor I thought "ugh this tastes like plastic." Then it dawned on me.
I wrote about the critical ingredient that changed the world of modern gum.
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
I wrote about the critical ingredient that changed the world of modern gum.
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
"Lily...is wedged between an urge to binge that is tempered by the Ozempic and the impulse to restrict that the Ozempic enables."
Wrote about the optimism, suspicion, and caution that surrounds GLP-1s and their effects on those with EDs
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Wrote about the optimism, suspicion, and caution that surrounds GLP-1s and their effects on those with EDs
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Ozempic is hailed as a miracle drug. But how does it affect people with eating disorders?
Doctors worry about GLP-1s being used by people with restrictive eating disorders – but research also shows they could help others struggling with binge eating
www.theguardian.com
April 4, 2025 at 6:22 PM
"Lily...is wedged between an urge to binge that is tempered by the Ozempic and the impulse to restrict that the Ozempic enables."
Wrote about the optimism, suspicion, and caution that surrounds GLP-1s and their effects on those with EDs
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Wrote about the optimism, suspicion, and caution that surrounds GLP-1s and their effects on those with EDs
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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My work explores the tension between how it started and how it's going.
March 27, 2025 at 8:13 PM
My work explores the tension between how it started and how it's going.
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She appears to have been taken to an ICE facility in Louisiana, against a judge’s orders
NEW—After a day of uncertainty on where agents took Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk, she appears to be in a Louisiana facility.
1400+ miles from Somerville, Massachusetts, where she was taken.
A judge ordered to not take her out of state without 48 hour notice. She was detained last night.
1400+ miles from Somerville, Massachusetts, where she was taken.
A judge ordered to not take her out of state without 48 hour notice. She was detained last night.
WATCH: The Moment Masked ICE Agents Arrested Tufts Graduate Student Who Spoke Out in Support of Palestine
“I can buy that badge from a fucking costume store,” says a witness to the “kidnapping” of Rumeysa Ozturk as she was on her way to break her Ramadan fast.
zeteo.com
March 26, 2025 at 9:18 PM
She appears to have been taken to an ICE facility in Louisiana, against a judge’s orders
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If you’re a journalist writing about Japanese American concentration camps — or just a person discussing their connection to the present day — I implore you to not use “internment,” “relocation,” “assembly centers” etc. Denshō has a useful guide on specific phrases.
densho.org/terminology/
densho.org/terminology/
Terminology - Densho: Japanese American Incarceration and Japanese Internment
densho.org
March 20, 2025 at 11:28 PM
If you’re a journalist writing about Japanese American concentration camps — or just a person discussing their connection to the present day — I implore you to not use “internment,” “relocation,” “assembly centers” etc. Denshō has a useful guide on specific phrases.
densho.org/terminology/
densho.org/terminology/
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This is going to kill many public libraries, especially in rural areas. If you use a public library, you will be impacted. #imls is a dust mote in the federal budget. It also provides things like internet at your local library so people can apply for jobs and kids can do homework.
This, by the by, is an effing disaster if it holds up. The number of public libraries that will go under if IMLS is shuttered is mind-boggling. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Continuing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.
www.whitehouse.gov
March 15, 2025 at 1:40 PM
This is going to kill many public libraries, especially in rural areas. If you use a public library, you will be impacted. #imls is a dust mote in the federal budget. It also provides things like internet at your local library so people can apply for jobs and kids can do homework.
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IMLS is the Institute of Museum and Library Services. It's about $200 million per year for libraries and $50 million for museums. Not a lot for the federal budget, but a huge piece of the culture and knowledge system - which is why MAGA is eliminating it.
This, by the by, is an effing disaster if it holds up. The number of public libraries that will go under if IMLS is shuttered is mind-boggling. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Continuing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.
www.whitehouse.gov
March 15, 2025 at 1:02 PM
IMLS is the Institute of Museum and Library Services. It's about $200 million per year for libraries and $50 million for museums. Not a lot for the federal budget, but a huge piece of the culture and knowledge system - which is why MAGA is eliminating it.
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The Department of Health and Human Services has granted associates of the U.S. DOGE Service access to a sensitive child support database with troves of income data, overriding the objections of career employees, according to four people familiar with the matter. wapo.st/4ielu88
HHS grants DOGE access to child support database, overriding objections
The decision came after resistance from career staff at the agency.
wapo.st
March 8, 2025 at 7:39 PM
The Department of Health and Human Services has granted associates of the U.S. DOGE Service access to a sensitive child support database with troves of income data, overriding the objections of career employees, according to four people familiar with the matter. wapo.st/4ielu88
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congratulations to No Other Land, which may be the first film to win a major Oscar but not theatrical distribution.
The Most Relevant Movie in Theaters Is Poised to Make Oscar History. It Would Be a Shameful First.
It swept the critics’ awards and seems like an Oscars lock, yet it still doesn’t have a distributor.
slate.com
March 3, 2025 at 2:18 AM
congratulations to No Other Land, which may be the first film to win a major Oscar but not theatrical distribution.
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"No Other Land," the Palestinian-Israeli made film showing the destruction of the occupied West Bank's Masafer Yatta by Israeli soldiers, just won the Oscar for Best Documentary.
It can't get a distributor in the US.
Which tells you everything about censorship in the US.
It can't get a distributor in the US.
Which tells you everything about censorship in the US.
March 3, 2025 at 2:14 AM
"No Other Land," the Palestinian-Israeli made film showing the destruction of the occupied West Bank's Masafer Yatta by Israeli soldiers, just won the Oscar for Best Documentary.
It can't get a distributor in the US.
Which tells you everything about censorship in the US.
It can't get a distributor in the US.
Which tells you everything about censorship in the US.
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My latest piece for @teenvogue.com delves into the horrific story of popular skincare ingredient Retin-A.
Before Retin-A was approved by the FDA in 1971, it had been tested on hundreds of incarcerated Black people in Philadelphia, without their informed consent. The survivors still bear the scars.
Before Retin-A was approved by the FDA in 1971, it had been tested on hundreds of incarcerated Black people in Philadelphia, without their informed consent. The survivors still bear the scars.
The miraculous wrinkle-erasing, acne-fighting cream, is the result of decades of horrifying medical abuse.
The Horrifying History Behind a Beloved Skin-Care Ingredient
Retin-A was developed through tests on incarcerated people.
www.teenvogue.com
March 1, 2025 at 11:09 PM
My latest piece for @teenvogue.com delves into the horrific story of popular skincare ingredient Retin-A.
Before Retin-A was approved by the FDA in 1971, it had been tested on hundreds of incarcerated Black people in Philadelphia, without their informed consent. The survivors still bear the scars.
Before Retin-A was approved by the FDA in 1971, it had been tested on hundreds of incarcerated Black people in Philadelphia, without their informed consent. The survivors still bear the scars.
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I escaped poverty because I am a scientist.
And I am a scientist because of the National Science Foundation.
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And I am a scientist because of the National Science Foundation.
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February 18, 2025 at 8:02 PM
I escaped poverty because I am a scientist.
And I am a scientist because of the National Science Foundation.
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And I am a scientist because of the National Science Foundation.
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A fun fact abt me: l lived in Qatar for 14 years.
I just turned 29, and wrote an essay abt how Qatar no longer being the majority of my life, perpetual foreignness + what I'm learning abt obligation to the place where I live.
I hope you'll read/subscribe!
hannahseo.substack.com/p/tipping-th...
I just turned 29, and wrote an essay abt how Qatar no longer being the majority of my life, perpetual foreignness + what I'm learning abt obligation to the place where I live.
I hope you'll read/subscribe!
hannahseo.substack.com/p/tipping-th...
Tipping the Hourglass
A bit about what this newsletter maybe might be, and the essay that made me want to do this in the first place
hannahseo.substack.com
February 11, 2025 at 3:22 PM
A fun fact abt me: l lived in Qatar for 14 years.
I just turned 29, and wrote an essay abt how Qatar no longer being the majority of my life, perpetual foreignness + what I'm learning abt obligation to the place where I live.
I hope you'll read/subscribe!
hannahseo.substack.com/p/tipping-th...
I just turned 29, and wrote an essay abt how Qatar no longer being the majority of my life, perpetual foreignness + what I'm learning abt obligation to the place where I live.
I hope you'll read/subscribe!
hannahseo.substack.com/p/tipping-th...
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American science and medicine has been thrown into chaos and uncertainty over the past week. Here are some stories to get up to speed. 1/12
January 28, 2025 at 3:58 AM
American science and medicine has been thrown into chaos and uncertainty over the past week. Here are some stories to get up to speed. 1/12
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Animals lay eggs or birth babies. Trees make seeds...except for the ones that have live babies, like we do?! I wrote for @biographic.bsky.social about the genetics of baby-having mangrove trees, and why they might have evolved this way: www.biographic.com/how-some-tre... 🧪
How Some Trees Evolved to Birth Live Young - bioGraphic
For mangroves, dropping babies in the dirt can be a big advantage.
www.biographic.com
January 22, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Animals lay eggs or birth babies. Trees make seeds...except for the ones that have live babies, like we do?! I wrote for @biographic.bsky.social about the genetics of baby-having mangrove trees, and why they might have evolved this way: www.biographic.com/how-some-tre... 🧪