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Neanderthals: More knowable now than ever

  2023-12-01 . . Neanderthals: More knowable now than ever They have held our fascination ever since we first identified their remains. Today, thanks to new artifacts and technologies, findings about our closest relatives are coming thick and fast. By Tim Vernimmen Neanderthals are Homo sapiens’s closest-known relative, and today we know we rubbed shoulders […]

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Quick Genetic Test Offers Hope for Sick, Undiagnosed Kids. But Few Insurers Offer to Pay

    2023-10-30 Quick Genetic Test Offers Hope for Sick, Undiagnosed Kids. But Few Insurers Offer to Pay. Phil Galewitz, KFF Health News Just 48 hours after her birth in a Seattle-area hospital in 2021, Layla Babayev was undergoing surgery for a bowel obstruction. Two weeks later, she had another emergency surgery, and then developed […]

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From Black Death to COVID-19, pandemics have always pushed people to honor death and celebrate life

2022-10-20 From Black Death to COVID-19, pandemics have always pushed people to honor death and celebrate life Death waits for no man – and pandemics drive the point home. Pieter Brueghel the Elder: ‘The Triumph of Death’, CC BY Nükhet Varlik, Rutgers University – Newark After the last couple of Halloweens were plagued by doubt and […]

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The first Thanksgiving is a key chapter in America’s origin story – but what happened in Virginia four months later mattered much more

The first Thanksgiving is a key chapter in America’s origin story – but what happened in Virginia four months later mattered much more In the 19th century, there was a campaign to link the Thanksgiving holiday to the Pilgrims. Bettman/Getty Images Peter C. Mancall, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences This year marks the […]

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