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Did your doctor "ghost" you? An employment contract may be to blame
Contracts with so-called restrictive covenants are now common in medicine, although some states limit their use
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2 days ago
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Schrödinger’s kittens: New thought experiment breaks quantum theory
A twist on the famous Schrödinger’s cat thought experiment could undermine quantum physics – or provide a path to a deeper understanding of how the world works
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2 days ago
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‘I thought I was going to die’: why patients are no longer pooh-poohing faecal transplants
Bonnie Wortmeyer is one of thousands finding freedom from Clostridium difficile bacteria through faecal microbiota transplantation
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3 days ago
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A boy on a bike was shot dead by US soldiers. Was it a war crime? I spent 16 years trying to find out
While I was embedded with the US Army in Iraq, I heard a story about two soldiers killing a child in cold blood. I've spent 16 years trying to find out the truth.
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3 days ago
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five bytes of data. What’s more, the writing and reading process took 21 hours,
So not actually useful just yet.
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4 days ago
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This Woman Can Actually Smell Parkinson's Disease Before It's Diagnosed
At the moment, there's no definitive diagnostic test for Parkinson's. Soon, that might change thanks to a woman called Joy Milne – she can sniff out the brain disease on someone before the symptoms appear. Joy claims she can smell the scents of other diseases like Alzheimer's and cancer too
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4 days ago
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Super-tall, super-skinny, super-expensive: the 'pencil towers' of New York's super-rich
The long read: An extreme concentration of wealth in a city where even the air is for sale has produced a new breed of needle-like tower
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4 days ago
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This Photo of 'Not Marbles' Is Probably The Strangest Thing You'll See All Day
We know what you're thinking: why am I looking at a weird handful of pink marbles in a patch of mud?
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4 days ago
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What's hard about this, it's a couple of lines of PHP? Sounds deliberate.
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5 days ago
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Border Patrol detains 9 year old U.S. citizen for 36 hours after falsely accusing her of lying about her identity
In San Diego, the United States Border Patrol grabbed a girl who is 9 and a U.S. citizen and on her way to school, accused her of lying about her identity, then detained her for 36 hours. It's hard to imagine this sort of thing routinely happening under Trump's white supremacist presidency to families who look differently. Say, blonde and white and wealthy.
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5 days ago
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Fibre has big benefits, and we're not getting enough of it
A diet high in fibre reduces the risk of potentially life-threatening conditions, including heart disease and stroke.
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6 days ago
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The campaign for a 'drug-free world' is costing lives
Global policy on drug control is unrealistic, and has taken a harsh toll on millions of the world’s poorest people
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6 days ago
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Aboriginal Australia’s smash hit that went viral
Wanji-wanji's lyrics have remained unchanged over thousands of kilometres and the past 150 years.
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6 days ago
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Higher consumption of sugary beverages linked with increased risk of mortality
The more sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) people consumed, the greater their risk of premature death—particularly death from cardiovascular disease, and to a lesser extent from cancer, according to a large long-term study of U.S. men and women.
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6 days ago
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We did a breakthrough 'speed test' in quantum tunnelling, and here's why that's exciting
Things get weird at the quantum level and now we know they can happen really fast when a particle pushes through an almost insurmountable barrier.
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7 days ago
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Newly Discovered Snake Can Strike You With Venom Without Even Opening Its Mouth
Hidden in the evergreen forests of Guinea and Liberia, scientists have discovered a new species of snake that can deliver a venomous stab all without even opening its mouth.
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8 days ago
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Shoving breast milk up babies noses is a thing? Eewww.
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8 days ago
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Reddit Admins Issue Formal Warning to /r/piracy, Totally Out of the Blue
After never directing a single complaint to the popular /r/piracy discussion forum, Reddit Legal has now issued its moderators with an official warning concerning its future. Almost no evidence has been provided but apparently 74 complaints in recent months triggered the warning. Reddit has a quarter of a billion monthly users.
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8 days ago
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John Oliver looks at public shaming on the internet
Includes an amazing interview with Monica Lewinsky.
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8 days ago
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Nile shipwreck discovery proves Herodotus right – after 2,469 years
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Scientists Warn 'Inactive' Ingredients in Drugs Are Not as Harmless as You'd Think
The vast majority of oral medications contain ingredients that could cause adverse reactions in patients, new research suggests.
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10 days ago
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Global Initiative Mines Retired Hard Disk Drives for Materials and Magnets
Every year in the United States, roughly 20 million hard drives are retired from data centers
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11 days ago
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Huh? What exactly is this Inbox?
Posted in: Petition: Google, don't kill Inbox!
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11 days ago
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Brexit: what should happen next.
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