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Why Your Supermarket Sells Only 5 Kinds of Apples
John Bunker Séan Alonzo Harris Every fall at Maine’s Common Ground Country Fair, the Lollapalooza of sustainable agriculture, John Bunker sets out a display of eccentric apples. Last September, once...
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Something Is Seriously Wrong on the East Coast—and It’s Killing All the Baby...
The new poster child for climate change had his coming-out party in June 2012, when Petey the puffin chick first went live into thousands of homes and schools all over the world. The “Puffin Cam”...
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Big Mayo Wants You to Know There’s Only One Way to Make Mayo, Dammit
Last Friday, the Anglo-Dutch mega-conglomerate Unilever, owner of Hellmann’s Mayonnaise, filed suit against the vegan upstart Hampton Creek, maker of egg-free Just Mayo, citing “false advertising and...
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A Future of Genetically Engineered Children Is Closer Than You’d Think
ARN0 The first step is a no-brainer. Say you are one of the tens of thousands of people with Huntington’s disease, a terrible, hereditary neurodegenerative disorder caused by a mutation in the HTT...
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Few people in the United States had heard of the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV)—the high-security biolab in Wuhan, China, that does cutting-edge research on coronaviruses—until mid-April, when the...
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There’s No Proof Sunscreen Prevents Cancer in Black People. Why Do Doctors...
In May 2019, the University of Texas dermatologist Adewole Adamson published an opinion piece in the Washington Post debunking recommendations that Black people should wear sunscreen to prevent skin...
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