I Sing the Body Electric

In the 1990 film Awakenings, based on Oliver Sacks’s memoir of the same name, a patient named Lucy Fishman (Alice Drummond), ...
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Germs Cause Disease. But What Causes Germs?

While I was researching the infectious vectors of Blastocystis Hominis, I came across some interesting statistics. According to Wikipedia, the ...
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“Raisin” Is a Way of Seeing

The universe is expanding. So ... Are we? A typical answer we get to this question runs something like this: ...
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This Is Not a Vacuum

In 1984, at my public high school in Winchester, Massachusetts, there was a world-class biology teacher named Jerome Burdulis. Mr. ...
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Olive Oil & the Nature of Reality

“Everything is energy and that’s all there is to it.” —Albert Einstein “The trouble is that like all great truths ...
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Parkinson’s: Manganese at the Brain Stem?

In these holographic models, the speed of light is the baseline, but the baseline can be viewed in different ways, ...
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