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Baring Teeth: The Long Battle Over Fluoride Comes to a Head
Mar 6, 2024 · 1. Fluoride blocks the absorption of iodine, so people living in the U.S. goiter belt are especially at risk of iodine deficient related diseases.
As Offshore Wind Ramps Up, Scientists Flag Potential Impacts
Aug 21, 2023 · L ast year, the Biden administration announced an ambitious goal: enough offshore wind to power 10 million homes by 2030. The move would reduce carbon emissions, create jobs, and strengthen energy security. It would also help the United States — which was responsible for just 0.1 percent of the world’s offshore wind capacity last year — catch up with renewable energy leaders like China ...
Maybe She’s Just Tired, Maybe It’s Undiagnosed Iron Deficiency
Aug 26, 2024 · A bout three years ago, Soumya Rangarajan struggled day after day with exhaustion, headaches, and heart palpitations. As a frontline hospital doctor during the Covid-19 pandemic, she first attributed her symptoms to the demands of an …
Long Division: The Persistence of Race Science
Dec 12, 2022 · LONG DIVISION is an ongoing journalistic project by Undark Magazine, published by the Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT, that examines the fraught legacy of race science.The multipart series, supported in part by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, grew out of a workshop held in June 2022 at Harvard University, which brought together journalists, science historians, and other ...
For Some Survivors, Polio Casts a Long Shadow - Undark Magazine
Jan 2, 2023 · I had polio at 8 yrs of age in summer of 1948. Paralyzed from neck down. Yeah long recoup; Sister Kenny method of rehab used. Ran track, ice scared, on cue basketball team in high school.
Snip or Skip? The Complicated Debate Over Circumcision.
Jan 1, 2024 · Overall a fairly balanced and nuanced article on a topic usually treated with derision. If we were discussing bodily autonomy, consent, and medical justification in almost any other context, it would go without saying that surgery removing healthy tissue justified by shaky medical reasoning done without the patient’s express consent would be a no-go.
Down on the Body Farm: The Forensics of Decaying Corpses
Nov 11, 2019 · Western Carolina University’s Forensic Osteology Research Station, founded in 2007, was the second body farm facility. In addition to serving as a laboratory for studying human decay at an altitude of 2,271 feet in the Blue Ridge Mountains, the center has provided a training ground for cadaver dogs that can detect human remains.
For Forest Blazes Grown Wilder, an Alternative: The ‘Good Fire’
Oct 25, 2021 · A forest fire may happen to a tree, but the reverse can also be true: A tree happens to a fire. A scientist would say that the Ponderosa pine, for instance, has adapted to fire: In other words, it has evolved to be especially cunning and seductive with the flames that help it survive.. This tree isn’t terribly picky about where it lives, populating mountains and valleys all over western ...
The Gold Rush Returns to California - Undark Magazine
Jan 24, 2022 · The last lines of the article read: They’re talking about bringing gold up from 3,000 feet below the surface,” he says, “which means restoring a badly damaged, probably collapsed-in gold mine to get less than an ounce per ton of gold out.” [should read “ounce per ton of gold ore.”]