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An Italian celebrity chef designs a fast-food burger.
Jaroslav Flegr is no kook. And yet, for years, he suspected his mind had been taken over by parasites that had invaded his brain. So the prolific biologist took his science-fiction hunch into the lab…
Earlier this year, officials in Pinellas County in Florida decided to remove the cavity-fighting chemical from its water supply. They weren't the first, and won't be last. Was it a mistake?
Walmart
Whether it works or not, Walmart's new logo, which will only go on in-house brand products, does follow some pretty strict nutrition criteria.
Medgadget
Boston Scientific has announced the European market launch of the PROMUS Element Plus stent, which incorporates platinum chromium allow and features a catheter delivery system.
The electronic medical-record revolution is upon us. What does it mean for you?
Reuters
We can't evolve or engineer our diseases away. And besides, the arms race between viruses and our genes may mean health is a moving target, one that would be dangerous to reach.
Smithsonian
It started with one live goldfish, swallowed on a dare at Harvard. Months later, the record in the U.S. was 101 fish in one sitting. Soon, doctors issued public health warnings about anemia.
The Climate Desk
In a new class, Lidia Bastianich and Bonnie Schneider teach students how to cook using ingredients forced on us by climate change.
5-Hour Energy
The mastermind behind the $3 cough syrup craze is a 58-year-old Indian-born monk who takes a shot of the chalky drink every morning, according to a profile in the latest Forbes.
Flickr
Desktops and laptops have been around long enough for usage guidelines to be established, but not so with tablets, which strain users.
Lost & Found Films
Meet the folks who've worked at New York's Prime Burger for decades in a documentary from the series 'This Must Be the Place.'
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Judy Howe and Bob Maiden both stumbled into their careers, but are now committed to making students aware of joys of working with elderly.
Reuters
A recent outbreak sickened 68 people, but the CDC refused to make the name of the source of the contaminated food available to the public.
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Best discovery ever: Doctors have sanctioned eating dessert first thing in the morning to help dieters lose more weight over the long term.
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Eggs are boiled and sterile, but contamination must have occurred after they were peeled or while they were sitting in buckets of salt water.
Medgadget
After entering through the patient's mouth, this little robot uses a pincer to grab the tissue to be removed and then cauterizes to stop bleeding.
Smithsonian
Based on a slogan used by Wonder Bread, the now-common phrase for hyping a new product was impossible before slicing machines.
Wellcome Images
This new title offers an unprecedented and remarkable journey into our collective corporal curiosity with breathtaking paintings and art.
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The relationship between education and IQ is difficult to pin down, but new research shows an additional year of school is equal to 3.7 points.
Kuma's Corner
From Saltwater in Detroit to The Alembic in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, these joints are serving the best sliders around.
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The power that industrial agriculture has allows it to manipulate the rhetoric of alternative animal-based systems to its advantage.
Reuters
In a Ugandan trial, immunity-boosting zinc supplements improved the chances of survival of kids suffering from this respiratory disease.
Reuters
Cancer rates have tripled among NYPD officers who responded at Ground Zero during the attacks of September 11. Fifty-six have died.
National Portrait Gallery
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The Civil War
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The All-American Soap Box Derby (1936)
Illustrations of Missed Connections
Video Documentary: The Impact of a Principal
James Fallows on Obama's first term, Raymond Bonner on the death penalty, Christopher Hitchens on G.K. Chesterton, and more
Canadian Bagels, Flutes, and Fiancee Trouble
February 9: Time to Wake Up Taft
Nancy Pelosi Gets Stephen Colbert; A Brief History of Apple
'Gay Lifestyles' Outlawed in St. Petersburg
Have Americans Given Up On McMansions?
U.K. Bus Stops to Smell Like Baked Potatoes
