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Ghosts: Don't Make The Mistake I Did
Brush off your feet before leaving is an important safety precaution visiting cemeteries. One time my friends and I discovered Ivo Shandor and his cult had been trying to bring back the ancient ...
Earth Sciences
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Leaf Them On The Ground: Benefit More By Doing Less Yardwork
Every autumn, homeowners and gardeners tend to engage in a familiar ritual. As trees shed their leaves, people drag out rakes, leaf blowers and lawn bags to strip their yards bare before winter arrive...
Life Sciences
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194 Year Old Tortoise DNA Shows Lifestyle Diseases Accelerate Aging
Genetic analysis of a Aldabrachelys gigantea tortoise named Jonathan reveals that if you take care of your DNA, it will take care of you. Jonathan, age 194, maintains good DNA repair and good ins...
Medicine
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Wellness Grifters Switched To Republican With Kennedy, But The Sketch Remains The Same
Just a few short years ago, if you believed that weedkillers cause cancer, vaccines cause autism, and supplements were medicine, your political leaning was so predictable you draw a county-size circle...
Physical Sciences
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Is Simulation-Based Inference A New Technique In HEP?
No, it is not. Please note! It goes back to Stan Ulam in the 1940s!Lately I am observing how many colleagues young and old --experimental particle physicists, mostly working at LHC experiments-- carry...
Social Sciences
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Bearing Witness: Why It Might Be Ethical To Watch A Mass Murderer's Execution
It has never been easier for us to access images of people being harmed, maimed and killed. Two recent cases have focused on very different, prominent stories of sharing graphic footage of deaths.Foot...
