Roberto Bubas is an Argentine wildlife ranger who grew up admiring Jacques Cousteau, the French marine researcher who travelled the seven seas in his mythical… Read More »Orcas, their human friend, and the autistic boy they healed

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A recent report by the BBC discusses the uses of swearing and finds some surprising benefits to it. It also debates the merits of quoting… Read More »Swearing can do good, but don’t overdo

  Very often, the simplest ideas can be the most successful ones. Nobody in his right mind would think that a boring podcast would have… Read More »“Sleep With Me”: The Uses of a Boring Podcast

  According to Jewish law, boys come of age at 13. This opportunity is marked with the Bar Mitzvah ritual. Yet Yisrael Kristal had to… Read More »A Holocaust Survivor Waited a Century for his Bar Mitzvah

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  A newly published article in JAMA Internal Medicine reveals that the sugar industry funded research that shifted attention towards fatty foods away from the effects of… Read More »Bittersweet: The Sugar Industry and its Influence on Health Research

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  The National Institutes of Health, a U.S. federal agency and a major research center, is studying the implications of human cell growth in non-human… Read More »If it takes a chimera to save a human