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The Public Health Community Must Tell the Whole Measles Story
Time via AOL· 16 hours agoTo be fair, multiple factors are driving the return of measles. This year’s spike in cases, for...
Avocados are a ‘green gold’ export for Mexico, but growing them is harming forests and waters
Salon.com· 20 minutes agoAs with other foods that have become trendy, such as acai berries, or widely used, such as palm oil, intensive avocado production is causing significant environmental damage. My research on ...
The original 'Mr. Eclipse:' How a 19th-century astronomer calculated the dates of over 13,000...
Space via Yahoo News· 5 days ago(Image credit: Joe Rao) Remember that in the late 19th century, electronic computers were far in the...
Affairs, diseases and menages a trois – real Regency sex was even raunchier than Bridgerton suggests
The Conversation· 7 days agoOne reality not mentioned in the show is how common sexually transmitted disease was. William Buchan, a doctor who wrote a popular medical tract on the ...
Architecture that Might Have Contributed to Disease Prevention
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention· 6 days agoThe Samoan Islands constitute a volcanic archipelago covering 1,170 square miles of the central South Pacific Ocean in the mid-Western part of the Polynesian triangle. The Islands are divided ...
The return of Borneo’s bearded boars – and what it means for the food chain
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 8 hours agoIt’s not the sort of post you expect to “go viral”: three blurry snapshots of a bearded boar and its...
Four ways vaccine skeptics mislead on measles and more
Medical Xpress· 1 day agoMeasles is on the rise in the United States. In the first quarter of this year, the number of cases was about 17 times what it was, on average, during the same period in each ...
From the Greeks to GLP-1s: The Complete History of Weight Loss Drugs
MediaFeed via AOL· 7 hours agoHumans have spent thousands of years experimenting with weight loss aids. While Ozempic and Wegovy...
How the Murder of a Black Grocery Store Owner and His Colleagues Galvanized Ida B. Wells'...
Smithsonian Magazine· 6 days agoIda B. Wells sat firmly while the Memphis streetcar man gripped her body and tried to forcibly...
Logged out: in the footsteps of the teak wallahs in northern Thailand
South China Morning Post· 4 days agoMy starting point is the Lanna Traditional House Museum, in Chiang Mai, which features several...