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Sometimes great material comes out of nowhere. Following my September 1st article about sapphires and their chemical similarity to rubies, Jimmy M, a regular reader, left the following comment. It's a gem. 

If one were to pick the most important milestone in the annals of public health history, what would you choose?

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In today's politics, there's red, and there's blue. Most of the time, they have little in common.

Jonathan Howard, MD, is committed to public service. He’s a physician and a warrior in the battle against medical misinformation.

University of Nevada, Reno profiled ACSH trustee Mick Hitchcock, Ph.D., in Moving science out of silos. Th

The roller coaster debuted on Coney Island in 1884. It was not much, by today’s standards – only fifteen feet high at its peak with a top speed of four miles per hour. But the designers saw their popularity and looked for improvements.

What does it mean to have problems sleeping? The difficulty, of course, is that we know so little about our own sleep beyond the qualitative sense of difficulty falling or staying asleep.

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