Medicine & health

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Hall of Fame: 12
Candidates: 37
Types: 6
Median span: 5.2 yrs

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Essays & writing 35 Medicine & health links 8 Hall · 27 Candidates Research & data 5 Medicine & health links 0 Hall · 5 Candidates Reference 4 Medicine & health links 1 Hall · 3 Candidates Tools, games & demos 3 Medicine & health links 2 Hall · 1 Candidates Books & learning 1 Medicine & health link 1 Hall · 0 Candidates Software & code 1 Medicine & health link 0 Hall · 1 Candidates

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Why Doctors Hate Their Computers (2018)

www.newyorker.com Essays & writing 7 submissions · 6 people · 6.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-07 Resurfaced 2025-08-04

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Why Anti-Authoritarians Are Diagnosed as Mentally Ill (2012)

www.madinamerica.com Essays & writing 7 submissions · 6 people · 14.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-09 Resurfaced 2024-09-01

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Your body wasn’t built to last: a lesson from human mortality rates

gravityandlevity.wordpress.com Essays & writing 8 submissions · 8 people · 16.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2015-04 Resurfaced 2018-02-15

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Drowning Doesn't Look Like Drowning

mariovittone.com Essays & writing 10 submissions · 9 people · 15.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2016-05 Resurfaced 2018-05-28

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Paris syndrome

en.wikipedia.org Reference 14 submissions · 14 people · 10.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-01 Resurfaced 2020-01-11

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50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Quietly Paid Scientists to Blame Fat (2016)

www.npr.org Essays & writing 5 submissions · 5 people · 6.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-10 Resurfaced 2024-10-27

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The brain is not a computer

aeon.co Essays & writing 16 submissions · 16 people · 8.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-03 Resurfaced 2024-06-13

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Beginner's guide to longevity research

www.ldeming.com Books & learning 8 submissions · 7 people · 4.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-08 Resurfaced 2022-02-27

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Dsxyliea

geon.github.io Tools, games & demos 5 submissions · 5 people · 4.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-07 Resurfaced 2020-07-13

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Spot the Drowning Child (2015)

spotthedrowningchild.com Tools, games & demos 6 submissions · 6 people · 6.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-07 Resurfaced 2024-07-08

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The myopia boom (2015)

www.nature.com Essays & writing 6 submissions · 6 people · 4.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-09 Resurfaced 2019-09-30

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What Americans die from vs. what the news reports on

ourworldindata.org Essays & writing 5 submissions · 4 people · 6.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-10 Resurfaced 2025-10-14

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What Americans die from vs. what the news reports on

ourworldindata.org Essays & writing 5 submissions · 4 people · 6.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-10 Resurfaced 2025-10-14

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Why Doctors Hate Their Computers (2018)

www.newyorker.com Essays & writing 7 submissions · 6 people · 6.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-07 Resurfaced 2025-08-04

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50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Quietly Paid Scientists to Blame Fat (2016)

www.npr.org Essays & writing 5 submissions · 5 people · 6.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-10 Resurfaced 2024-10-27

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Why Anti-Authoritarians Are Diagnosed as Mentally Ill (2012)

www.madinamerica.com Essays & writing 7 submissions · 6 people · 14.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-09 Resurfaced 2024-09-01

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Spot the Drowning Child (2015)

spotthedrowningchild.com Tools, games & demos 6 submissions · 6 people · 6.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-07 Resurfaced 2024-07-08

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Candidates

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The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant (2005)

www.nickbostrom.com Essays & writing 19 submissions · 18 people · 13.0 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2021-12-05

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Micromort

en.wikipedia.org Reference 20 submissions · 20 people · 16.0 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2020-06-19

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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f.lux

justgetflux.com Software & code 9 submissions · 9 people · 10.1 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-03-10

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Could a Neuroscientist Understand a Microprocessor? (2017)

journals.plos.org Research & data 19 submissions · 16 people · 8.0 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2019-10-28

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Superior IQs associated with mental and physical disorders, research suggests

www.scientificamerican.com Essays & writing 4 submissions · 4 people · 5.9 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2021-03-24

Needs:5 submissions

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“Why We Sleep” Is Riddled with Scientific and Factual Errors

guzey.com Essays & writing 8 submissions · 8 people · 5.9 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2021-04-03

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Exploding Head Syndrome

en.wikipedia.org Reference 8 submissions · 8 people · 11.9 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-11-23

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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How I stopped the RSI pain that almost destroyed my programming career

codewithoutrules.com Essays & writing 3 submissions · 3 people · 7.9 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2018-05-23

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart5 submissions

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Aphantasia

en.wikipedia.org Reference 4 submissions · 4 people · 6.7 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2021-11-28

Needs:5 submissions

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When people ate people, a strange disease emerged (2016)

www.npr.org Essays & writing 4 submissions · 4 people · 4.7 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2021-05-09

Needs:5 submissions

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Teach Yourself to Echolocate: A beginner’s guide to navigating with sound

www.atlasobscura.com Essays & writing 4 submissions · 4 people · 6.1 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-11-16

Needs:5 submissions

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“You want to know something about how bullshit insane our brains are?” (2018)

twitter.com Essays & writing 5 submissions · 2 people · 4.0 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-08-01

Needs:3 submitters

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To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as reading language

news.mit.edu Essays & writing 4 submissions · 3 people · 3.4 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-05-26

Needs:5 submissions

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High-fructose corn syrup prompts considerably more weight gain than sugar (2010)

www.princeton.edu Essays & writing 4 submissions · 4 people · 5.2 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2013-07-13

Needs:5 submissions

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Aspartame: Once More Unto the Breach

dynomight.net Essays & writing 3 submissions · 3 people · 3.9 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2026-04-24

Needs:5 submissions

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Total cholesterol and all-cause mortality – a study among 13M adults

www.nature.com Research & data 3 submissions · 3 people · 4.3 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-09-21

Needs:5 submissions

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AirPods Causing Tinnitus (600+ reports since 2019?)

discussions.apple.com Essays & writing 3 submissions · 3 people · 3.3 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-03-04

Needs:5 submissions

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The risk of nitrites and nitrates in bacon

www.theguardian.com Essays & writing 6 submissions · 5 people · 3.0 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2021-02-15

Needs:3 active years

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Morning exposure to deep red light improves declining eyesight

www.nature.com Research & data 3 submissions · 3 people · 3.2 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-02-16

Needs:5 submissions

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Why Walking Helps Us Think (2014)

www.newyorker.com Essays & writing 4 submissions · 4 people · 2.7 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2017-05-01

Needs:5 submissions

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Most People With Addiction Grow Out of It (2014)

psmag.com Essays & writing 3 submissions · 2 people · 5.1 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-02-17

Needs:5 submissions3 submitters

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The Drugging of the American Boy (2014)

www.esquire.com Essays & writing 3 submissions · 3 people · 3.9 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2018-03-04

Needs:5 submissions3 active years

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An Algorithmic Solution to Insomnia (2017)

ilya.sukhar.com Essays & writing 5 submissions · 5 people · 6.4 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-05-31

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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‘It’s a superpower’: how walking makes us healthier, happier and brainier (2019)

www.theguardian.com Essays & writing 3 submissions · 3 people · 5.6 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2020-10-25

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart5 submissions

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Instinctive Sleeping and Resting Postures (2000)

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Research & data 3 submissions · 3 people · 5.5 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-03-17

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart5 submissions

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How an Alzheimer’s ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure

www.statnews.com Essays & writing 3 submissions · 3 people · 2.5 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-06-21

Needs:5 submissions3 active years

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Select a muscle and it provides the exercises to workout the selected muscle

musclewiki.com Tools, games & demos 3 submissions · 3 people · 4.3 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-01-10

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart5 submissions

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How Doctors Die (2011)

www.zocalopublicsquare.org Essays & writing 5 submissions · 5 people · 4.0 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2016-12-07

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Experiments on a $50 DIY air purifier (2020)

dynomight.net Essays & writing 3 submissions · 3 people · 3.0 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-01-29

Needs:5 submissions3 active years

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Good genes are nice, but joy is better (2017)

news.harvard.edu Essays & writing 4 submissions · 4 people · 4.2 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-11-03

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart5 submissions

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Severely deficient autobiographical memory in healthy adults (2015)

www.sciencedirect.com Research & data 3 submissions · 2 people · 2.8 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-07-15

Needs:5 submissions3 submitters

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Influenza A (H1N1) – How many bits does it take to kill a human? (2009)

www.bunniestudios.com Essays & writing 3 submissions · 3 people · 7.6 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2017-02-03

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart5 submissions

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How I Cured my RSI Pain (2010)

aaroniba.net Essays & writing 3 submissions · 3 people · 6.4 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2013-07-24

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart5 submissions

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Brains Speed Up Perception by Guessing What’s Next

www.quantamagazine.org Essays & writing 4 submissions · 4 people · 3.9 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-03-30

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart5 submissions3 active years

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Fatal Dose – Radiation Deaths linked to AECL Computer Errors (1994)

www.ccnr.org Essays & writing 3 submissions · 3 people · 4.9 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2019-06-04

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart5 submissions

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Why Some Civil War Soldiers Glowed in the Dark

mentalfloss.com Essays & writing 3 submissions · 3 people · 4.5 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2018-07-23

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart5 submissions

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How to deal with extreme physical pain

www.hanselman.com Essays & writing 3 submissions · 2 people · 2.0 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-11-02

Needs:5 submissions3 submitters3 active years

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