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What would happen if all people stopped eating meat tomorrow? - Carolyn Beans
Explore the possibilities and challenges of what a vegetarian world could look like if we all immediately stopped eating meat.
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Imagine if a wizard …
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Your body vs. implants - Kaitlyn Sadtler
Why do medical implants like insulin pumps and prosthetic knees need replacement? Explore how the immune system fights implants and how new devices a…
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The maladies that altered humanity forever - Dan Kwartler
Explore the history of humanity’s deadliest diseases, and find out how our progress and innovation exposed us to new pathogens.
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Since humanity’s ear…
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The infinite life of pi - Reynaldo Lopes
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The ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter is always the…
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Experiments that hint of longer lives - Cynthia Kenyon
What controls aging? Biochemist Cynthia Kenyon has found a simple genetic mutation that can double the lifespan of a simple worm, C. elegans. The les…
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