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EVOLVING ETHICS Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) were a prime concern for health officials in the 1940s, and many medical studies — including the US experiments in Guatemala — used…
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3948 words)

Madame Curie's Passion

When Marie Curie came to the United States for the first time, in May 1921, she had already discovered the elements radium and polonium, coined the term radio-active and won the Nobel Prizetwice. But…
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4156 words)

The Optimism Bias

We like to think of ourselves as rational creatures. We watch our backs, weigh the odds, pack an umbrella. But both neuroscience and…
PUBLISHED: May 26, 2011
LENGTH: 2 minutes (618 words)
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