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# science
The world’s most remote and least contacted tribe wants to be left alone, and they’ll use lethal force to make sure of it. But what happens if that contact is accidental?
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A group of anthropologists crossed from being respectful to non-Western cultures and their history to being patronizing and condescending.
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Genetic studies confirm that the Black Death was a strain of the bubonic plague making its way through Europe with outbreaks in trade hubs.
# health
It seems bizarre, but the longer a patient using alternative medicine is sick, the more converts the alternative treatments win.
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Africa is the cradle of humanity, which is why it's the most exciting place to study the early days of modern human evolution.
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The fellows at the John Templeton Foundation have a new idea of reconciling science and religion: mealy-mouth, vague apologetics.