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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
The Downsides of Prozac
Harvard researchers discuss the side effects of Prozac and other SSRIs
by Craig Lambert
Fighting the Free Radicals
Rust never sleeps. Neither do its chemical cousins, the so-called "reactive oxygen species" whose oxidizing properties in the human body can...
by Jonathan Shaw
Fourth-Century Church Tales
Mount Athos, jutting up from the Aegean Sea in northeastern Greece, is a place of austere traditions. Twenty Greek Orthodox monasteries cling...
High Fashion, Sub-Saharan
The ironies abound: women who can scarcely put food on the table cut elegant figures on city streets. Families who live in rundown concrete...
Wild Minds
In the summer of 1980, while doing primate research at a tourist spot in Florida, Marc D. Hauser had an unusual encounter. A female spider...
Longshots Can Win in the Schoolyard
When he was four, Raymond's family moved from Mexico to the United States. Everyone worked. The four children helped their mother deliver...
by Craig Lambert
The Boy’s Dilemma
The idea that boys like to play with guns while girls prefer dolls is venerable. But in recent years, boys have started playing with real guns...
by Elizabeth Gudrais
Seeds of Greatness
Of all the seed-bearing plants on earth, the angiosperms, or flowering plants, have been the most successful. There are 250,000 of them, as...
by Jonathan Shaw
Fixing Medieval Wine
Every year, French wholesalers airlift cases of Beaujolais Nouveau worldwide so that wine shops can start selling bottles to the public on the...
Grumbling among the Woodwinds
Lush notes from your violin resound through gilt-edged halls. Hushed audiences listen as you enthrall them with Beethoven or Prokofiev. Hundreds...