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“Myopia, or what we commonly call nearsightedness, happens when the eyeball gets too long—it deforms from soccer ball to American football—and then the eye focuses light not on the retina but slightly in front of it, maki
The study was published in PNAS Nexus. Three hundred sixty bots simulated new YouTube users to isolate the onboarding and subsequent algorithmic changes.
“Years ago, I asked a friend what kind of case she planned to buy for her shiny new flip phone. She paused, a little offended. “I don't like to buy stuff for my stuff,” she said.
We seem to be headed back to the Moon, and if Elon Musk can take time away from Twitter, perhaps Mars. What might living in those places be like?
The corporate take-over and consolidation of medicine is well underway. It has been two or three years now that the majority of physicians are employees rather than self-employed.
A recent video from CNN raises what seems to be a silly topic. Should we still be blowing out candles on birthday cakes?
    “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”
Americans are no strangers to “times that try men's souls," to borrow a phrase from Thomas Paine.
“Early lawsuits against the company pointed to talc as a cause of ovarian cancer, though the scientific evidence was not conclusive.