Exploring bleeding edge experiments, oddities, new and bizarre dicoveries, and fact-checking conspiracy theories since 2008. No question is out of bounds and no topic is too strange for a deep dive.
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Today’s office and gig culture are glorifying workaholism and a non-stop “hustle ‘till you make it, sleep when you’re dead” attitude. It’s not just socially toxic. It’s damaging to your health and psyche.
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Politicians and the public want short-term solutions to the opioid epidemic. But they aren't tackling its root cause: legitimate chronic pain.
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Marijuana appears to have real medicinal value, but to determine what it can really do, we have to go beyond anecdotes from medical pot users and do far more rigorous studies.
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Giving terminally ill patients a chance to try experimental drugs also means protecting them from scammers.
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Years of constant nagging about growing antibiotic resistance and its dire consequences, the public and industry still act as if they're blissfully unaware and are overusing antibiotics at an alarming rate.
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If you didn't want the COO of one the world's top hospitals to sound like Jenny McCarthy on a rampage, unfortunately, you're out of luck.
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Maybe a medical conference is not the best place to elevate the profiles of snake oil salespeople...
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We can't print fully functioning human organs suitable for transplantation just yet, but new experiments are getting close.
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Technology that can keep organs preserved and functioning outside a body are raising some thorny moral questions for ethicists.
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Instead of erasing and pathologizing transgenderism, we should be studying it to unlock answers to long standing questions about sex and gender.