When Mary-Claire King discovered the first gene linked to hereditary breast cancer in 1990, she also got to decide its name. She settled on…
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When I was taking German in college in the early years of this millennium, I once stumbled upon a word that appeared foreign even…
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Is Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Donald Trump’s improbable nominee for secretary of Health and Human Services, actually such a crank? Short answer: yes. But…
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