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What Are the Chances?
It was supposed to be a simple operation at one of Boston’s greatest hospitals. It turned out to be anything but. When the medical system failed Amy Reed and Hooman Noorchashm, the couple embarked on a journey that was part vengeance, part whistle-blower, and part David and Goliath. The fight changed their lives…and saved thousands more. By Sandy Hingston.
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Mushroom foraging is deadly. Why am I doing it?
Like the deadly pufferfish, wild mushrooms are for culinary daredevils. Care to play Russian roulette with your dinner? By Cal Flyn.
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Sherpa: Norbu Tenzing on the Everest ‘circus’ and the inevitability of another disaster
Film-maker Jennifer Peedom and the son of history’s most famous Sherpa, Tenzing Norgay, on how his people are stuck between a rock and a hard place. By Luke Buckmaster.
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Could Earth be fried by a ‘superflare’ from the sun?
Study surveys 100,000 stars for potentially deadly blasts. By Daniel Clery.
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CIA left explosive material on Loudoun [County, Virginia] school bus after training exercise
Bus ferried students to and from school this week, but officials say explosive materials posed no risk. By Clarence Williams and Moriah Balingit.
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Why Your Water Could Be Worse Than Flint’s
Our nation's water crisis requires radical solutions. By Laura Orlando.
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NASA Is Facing a Climate Change Countdown
Kennedy Space Center and other NASA facilities near coastlines are facing the prospect of continually rising waters. By John Schwartz.
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Gone In Six Characters
Short URLs Considered Harmful for Cloud Services By Vitaly Shmatikov.
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Inside Plum Island, America’s Only Foreign Animal Disease Lab
In this episode of Symptomatic, Motherboard visits [ecological nightmare factory] Plum Island.
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Our Beleaguered Planet
The interaction of global climate change, poverty, affluence, and overpopulation. By Marcia Angell.
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Software Error Doomed Japanese Hitomi Spacecraft
Space agency declares the astronomy satellite a loss. By Alexandra Witze. (Apr. 29)
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Tree Law is a Gnarly, Twisted Branch of the Legal System
These lawyers specialize in arboreal arbitration. By Natasha Geiling.
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‘I have to be taller’: the unregulated world of India’s limb-lengthening industry
Young Indians are paying for complex, painful procedures despite the absence of medical oversight in the race to improve career and marriage prospects. By Vidhi Doshi. (May 8, ’16)
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The Deadly Pain Medicine Sold by Skeletons
At the end of the 1800s, one St. Louis company marketed their signature pain-relieving product with a series of macabre calendars. By Bess Lovejoy.
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That’s no moth, it’s a wisp of delight on the wing
In recent years, some of the most beautiful moths have either died out here or are now only rare summer visitors. By John Burnside. (May 4, 2016)
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This List of Ways People Are Dying at Work [in the U.S.] Will Make Your Stomach Churn
Be thankful you have a job. Be thankful you’re alive. By Luke O’Neil. (May 9, 2016)
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Berkeley Girl
Harper Simon
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Bear kills biker in Montana, in seventh fatal grizzly attack since 2010 in the Northern Rockies
Scientists agree that bear attacks will continue to increase in frequency. By Wesley Yiin.
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Abrupt Sea Level Rise Looms As Increasingly Realistic Threat
Ninety-nine percent of the planet’s freshwater ice is locked up in the Antarctic and Greenland ice caps. Now, a growing number of studies are raising the possibility that as those ice sheets melt, sea levels could rise by six feet this century, and far higher in the next, flooding many of the world’s populated coastal areas. By Nicola Jones. (May 6, 2016)
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Blindsided: A Dream Engagement Turned Nightmare
Don Huckstep thought he’d found love in his hometown of Fowler, Indiana. But when Teresa Jarding vanished, it foreshadowed a series of bizarre discoveries. By Mary Milz.
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