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Essays and writing about medicine and health
Every link here is classified as essays and writing about medicine and health.
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- 5.1 yrs
- First seen
- 2008
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The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant (2005)
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Superior IQs associated with mental and physical disorders, research suggests
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“Why We Sleep” Is Riddled with Scientific and Factual Errors
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How I stopped the RSI pain that almost destroyed my programming career
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When people ate people, a strange disease emerged (2016)
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Teach Yourself to Echolocate: A beginner’s guide to navigating with sound
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To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as reading language
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High-fructose corn syrup prompts considerably more weight gain than sugar (2010)
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Aspartame: Once More Unto the Breach
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AirPods Causing Tinnitus (600+ reports since 2019?)
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The risk of nitrites and nitrates in bacon
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Why Walking Helps Us Think (2014)
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Most People With Addiction Grow Out of It (2014)
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The Drugging of the American Boy (2014)
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An Algorithmic Solution to Insomnia (2017)
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‘It’s a superpower’: how walking makes us healthier, happier and brainier (2019)
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How an Alzheimer’s ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure
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How Doctors Die (2011)
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Experiments on a $50 DIY air purifier (2020)
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Good genes are nice, but joy is better (2017)
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Influenza A (H1N1) – How many bits does it take to kill a human? (2009)
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How I Cured my RSI Pain (2010)
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Brains Speed Up Perception by Guessing What’s Next
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Fatal Dose – Radiation Deaths linked to AECL Computer Errors (1994)
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Why Some Civil War Soldiers Glowed in the Dark
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How to deal with extreme physical pain
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