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The Difference Between Defining Priorities And Asking For Funding

I did not think I would need to explain here things that should be obvious to any sentient being, but the recent activity I detect on Facebook and other sites, and the misinformation spread by some…

Sitting Linked To Premature Aging - And Hopefully Skepticism

Elderly women who sit more than 10 hours a day have accelerated biological aging, according to an epidemiology paper. They have older cells?

In Developed Countries, Nutritional Supplements Are Often An Expensive Placebo; Not So In The Rest Of The World

Though activists oppose Golden Rice, essentially a vitamin-fortified food staple, on ideological and economic grounds, Vitamin A deficiency affects hundreds of thousands of kids each year, and a…

How Barbarians Remade The Roman Empire From The Inside

One enduring myth about the collapse of the Roman Empire was that barbarians - Pagans from the north and Muslims from the south - caused it.

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The Difference Between Defining Priorities And Asking For Funding

Sitting Linked To Premature Aging - And Hopefully Skepticism

In Developed Countries, Nutritional Supplements Are Often An Expensive Placebo; Not So In The Rest Of The World

How Barbarians Remade The Roman Empire From The Inside