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Could an inexpensive vaccine help stave off dementia?
Anyone who has watched a loved one descend into the fog of dementia knows the tremendous toll that neurodegenerative diseases ...
Why are car headlights so blindingly bright now?
Glaringly bright, blue-hued headlights filled my hatchback earlier this year as I drove 80 miles an hour on the highway ...
What the MAHA movement gets wrong about meat
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. visited West Virginia on March 28 to promote his “Make America ...
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The most important number in the world
I was an English major in college, and my favorite poet was the first-generation Romantic William Wordsworth. For one thing, ...
One state’s desperate new plan to fix its egg shortage
H5N1, a highly pathogenic strain of avian influenza known as bird flu, continues to wreak havoc on the nation’s egg ...
A new book calls for a government that can do things. But there’s a dark side.
The buzzword of the past couple of weeks is Abundance, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s new book about why we ...
The rise of chatbot “friends”
Can you truly be friends with a chatbot? If you find yourself asking that question, it’s probably too late. In ...
One big reason for fewer babies: phones?
All across the world, people are having fewer children. The birth rate is declining quickly in countries ranging from the ...
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