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Is Ultraprocessed Food Really That Bad?
A Harvard professor challenges conventional wisdom.
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...
Parish+Precinct=Peaceful Streets
It was yet another funeral for yet another young man killed in yet another drive-by shooting. But this time the violence didn't wait while...
Fictions of Science
In November, 1997, a curious report emerged from physicists at the California Institute of Technology, who claimed that certain subatomic...
Voltage, Cheap and Dirty
The expanding Harvard universe
The Midlife Calm
You're a man in your forties and you are having an epiphany. Suddenly you see that your life has been meaningless. You take transformative action...
Cyberholics Anonymous
If Freud was right, and jokes do satisfy repressed needs, that might explain the unexpected success of the prank Ivan Goldberg pulled in 1995...
A Hundred Million Nasty Surprises
An estimated 100 million land mines sit just beneath the earth's surface, waiting for something to come along and supply the 10 to 20 pounds of pressure required for detonation.