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The Brothers Grimm Were Academics So Dark 34 Of Their Stories Were Banned
Imagine a fairy tale in which kids are playing outside and one is acting as a cook, one is a butcher, and one is the pig for dinner. Life in the early 1800s was so unmanaged even Gen X thinks it was n...
Earth Sciences
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Is Coastal Flooding Now Predictable?
A new paper posits that rather than being the random chaos theory colloquially known by things like the Butterfly Effect, recurrent coastal floods actually occur at very predictable times.The tides ha...
Life Sciences
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Why Oxygen, Not Time, Is What Makes Much of Our Food Go Bad
We tend to talk about food spoilage as if time itself were the culprit. Leave a bag of nuts, a bottle of juice or a packet of dried food on the shelf for long enough, the thinking goes, and age simply...
Medicine
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ICE Crackdowns Saved Money On Healthcare In California
Since implementation of the Affordable Care Act, commonly called Obamacare after President Obama, who signed it into law for his party, an unclear number of California doctors cap the number of patien...
Physical Sciences
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Flying With Gamma-Ray Counters: Another Test Or Two Of The Radiacode Zero
Yesterday I traveled all day, moving my family back to Lulea from Padova. The trip is long because there is no direct connection from Venice to Stockholm (Norwegian has one, but I prefer to avoid them...
Social Sciences
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'Let Me Begin By Saying There Is No Greater Feminist Than Me'
When a government official tells you something strange, like that they are really an ally as they prepare to put your feet to the fire, you should be concerned. History says the opposite is true.Befor...
