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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.
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Of all the things you could get transplanted, your head should not make the list. The risks are far too great and better methods are on the horizon.
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The future of meat isn't exactly not meat, at least not yet. But there is one way we could convince at least some people to start eating meat that doesn't come from an animal...
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New designs for potential single stage to orbit space planes won't replace rockets. But they could handle crews while the rockets handle cargo.
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A longform article on GMOs in Elle demonstrates why you really shouldn't be getting your scientific advice from fashion magazines.
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A lot of food sold as natural and wholesome is really just expensive and its sustainability is highly dubious. And its popularity is quickly becoming highly politicized.
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We finally have ironclad evidence showing that T. Rex was not an oversized scavenger as some argued, but actively hunted its prey.
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If you're exercising in searing heat and soaking humidity, that weird feeling isn't toxins leaving your body, it's the beginning of a heat stroke.
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Curtis White fancies himself a man of deep thought and keep insight. His "nuh-uh" take on Dawkins' The God Delusion shows otherwise.
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A group of physicists say that a multiverse, in which we're just one of many sibling universes, is an inevitable result of cosmic inflation.