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Health
Imagine carrying a genetic change that subtly alters how your body handles energy for your entire life. You eat. Your cells receive fuel. But instead of storing quite as much of that energy as fat, your metabolism appears to push more of it toward breakdown, mitochondrial activity and energy expenditure.
Music
Dolly Parton spent a lifetime making herself impossible to overlook. There was the enormous blonde hair, the rhinestones, the unmistakable Tennessee voice, the quick jokes and the theatrical clothes she wore with complete confidence. But behind all that sparkle was one of America's most accomplished songwriters, a fiercely
History
Nearly 3,800 years ago, a Babylonian king ordered hundreds of legal judgments carved onto a towering black stone monument. The text dealt with debts, marriages, wages, theft, farming, property disputes, medical errors, slavery, business contracts and violent crime. Some punishments were financial. Others were horrifyingly physical. A builder whose
Health
Bacon, ham, salami and sausages have long been under scrutiny because of their connection with colorectal cancer. Now one of Europe's largest long-term nutrition studies has added concerning evidence about two other cancers. Researchers following more than 450,000 people for an average of 14.1 years
Personalities
Some actors become inseparable from one character. Sir Ian Holm somehow became unforgettable as several people who could hardly have been more different. To millions of fantasy fans, he was Bilbo Baggins: warm, eccentric, slightly mischievous and carrying the lingering psychological weight of a ring he should never have found.
war
Imagine a battlefield where destroying the enemy's most advanced radar does not blind the opposing force. Another sensor immediately replaces it. A drone detects a target but carries no weapon. Its coordinates move through another aircraft, a satellite or a ground network. An artillery battery hundreds of kilometers
Movies
More than two decades after Sam Raimi's Spider-Man introduced Willem Dafoe's Norman Osborn, one of his ugliest conversations has somehow become a viral relationship theory. The argument goes like this: Norman warned his son Harry that Mary Jane Watson was interested in him because he
Science
Elon Musk has started talking about humanity's future using a scale so enormous that today's global civilization barely registers. It is called the Kardashev Scale. The idea was introduced in 1964 by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Kardashev, who proposed classifying advanced technological civilizations according to the amount
Weird World
It sounds like the setup to a joke. Scientists take human fecal waste. Turn it into a black powder. Mix that powder into concrete. And somehow the concrete becomes stronger. But researchers in India and the United States have now demonstrated something remarkably close to that scenario. A team led
Science
What if your brain does not create your thoughts? What if it receives them? That is the startling possibility at the center of Neural Transduction Theory, or NTT, a speculative proposal championed by research psychologist Robert Epstein. The conventional neuroscientific approach treats consciousness as intimately dependent on processes occurring within
Hollywood
Fourteen years have passed since Hollywood lost a man whose physical presence could dominate a movie frame before he said a single word. Then Michael Clarke Duncan would speak. That extraordinary bass voice would arrive. And almost immediately, the intimidating first impression could disappear. On September 3, 2012, Michael Clarke
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence has been sold to corporate leaders as almost everything at once. A productivity revolution. A cost-cutting machine. A new revenue engine. A threat to companies that move too slowly. And, increasingly, something executives feel they cannot afford not to buy. Yet after several years of aggressive enterprise
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