Category: Science
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H7N9: The Next Influenza Pandemic?
Where did this new H7N9 strain come from? Genetic analyses suggest that four different avian influenza viruses swapped genes in a process known as “reassortment.”
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The Math Behind the ‘Shoe Size-Age’ Trick
If you want to impress people with a math trick this Halloween, just be sure their birthday is sometime before November… and don’t show it to any centenarians!
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From Which Cancer Will You Die?
About 25% of Americans will end up with “cancer” written on their death certificates.
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CDC Lost Its Ebola Gamble
The CDC needs to find a spokesperson who can properly spell out exactly what scientists do and do not know about Ebola.
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Are Liberals or Conservatives More Anti-Vaccine?
The bottom line is that the CDC data makes it very difficult to argue that conservatives and liberals share equal blame in the anti-vaccine war. Anti-vaxxers are clearly more associated with the political Left.
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Getting Cancer at San Francisco Airport
The foolishness in California is the inevitable consequence of a chemophobic society that wields the evil twins of regulation and litigation as weapons in a fruitless effort to achieve the impossible: a life completely free of any risk whatsoever.
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To End Suicide Epidemic, Make Guns Harder to Get
A sensible policy to lower the suicide rate in America would be to make gun ownership more difficult.
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Unemployment Linked to Drop in Fertility
The conception rate falls as the national unemployment rate rises.
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We Are Slowly Winning the War on Cancer
Cancer, you’re on notice.
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Peanut Allergy: Browned Off
How peanuts are cooked may help explain why they are allergenic.