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Original sin immunity
The first time you get sick with a virus can affect how your body responds to that virus for the rest of your life. Benjamin West, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Memory B cells are a most...
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Constipation Blues
The blues music genre at its core is about hardship, oppression, and suffering. But it took Screamin’ Jay Hawkins to sing about that real pain down inside. Jean-Luc Ourlin, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia...
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Most and least popular birthdays
In the English-speaking world, more people are born in September than any other month of the year; the least popular birthdays (outside of leap days) are around Christmas, New Year, and other public...
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Rabbit starvation and polar bear poisoning
If you happen to be living out in the wilderness, don’t rely on a diet of rabbit meat, and definitely don’t eat polar bear livers. Alun Williams333, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons In 1597, a...
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Impostor cells
Biomedical research uses immortal cell lines such as HeLa to test treatments and examine biological mechanisms. But sometimes those cell lines are not what everyone thought: they have been invaded....
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