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Why Taxi Drivers Don’t Die of Alzheimer’s
Explaining taxi and ambulance drivers’ protection against Alzheimer’s disease.
by Erin O'Donnell
“An Evolutionary Scandal”
Matthew Meselson and David Mark Welch explore the role of sex in evolutionary biology.
by Jonathan Shaw
Japan's No-Aerobics
A recent World Health Organization study, coauthored by Christopher Murray, professor of international health economics, ranked the Japanese as...
The Curse of Adonis
When professor of psychiatry Harrison G. Pope Jr. '69, M.P.H. '72, M.D. '74, began lifting weights in 1980, it was seen as "rare and exotic...
by Craig Lambert
The Gated Menace of "Private Cities"
Neighborhoods are the building blocks of a metropolitan area. But neighborhoods are not identical units, such as bricks; quite dissimilar, they...
by Elizabeth Gudrais
The Half-life of Robin and Kim
By now firemen, policemen, and mailmen sound like cultural relics from the 1950s next to the no-nonsense firefighters, police officers, and...
by Harbour Fraser ...
Distant Planets
In the last five years, the idea of finding planets orbiting other stars has gone from a science-fiction fantasy to a reality frequently...
by Jonathan Shaw