The Thing Being Tested Is Not Whether It Can Get There
A free return needs no engine: the path completes itself. The mission is not testing whether…
Category: Science & Health
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A Country With Measles Can Still Have Eliminated Measles
Elimination has never meant zero cases. It means no single chain of one genotype running twelve…
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Four Hundred and Two Percent of the Poverty Line
Two percentage points past the eligibility line costs a sixty year old couple twenty two thousand…
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“Double the Risk” Is a Comparison. The Question Is What It Is Being Compared To.
Double the risk is a ratio, and the denominator is adolescents who use it less. The…
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The Milk Is the Surveillance System, and Nobody Designed It That Way
Bulk milk sampling was built for butterfat and antibiotic residues. It is currently the best view…
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The Rule Is That a 7.4 Near a City Kills Thousands. Wednesday Was the Exception.
A 7.4 near a city usually kills thousands. This one killed eighteen, and the reason is…
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An Organ With Sixty Nine Edits, and the Question It Does Not Answer
Sixty nine genomic edits in three groups, each solving a different rejection problem. What the first…
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The Sentence Was Added to the Constitution in 2018. This Week It Arrived in a Freezer.
Alabama voters approved a sentence about unborn children in November 2018. Five years later it reached…
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The Lander Ended Up Upside Down. It Also Hit What It Was Aiming At.
Japan’s SLIM landed on the Moon nose down with its solar panels in shadow. It also…