For ten years now, I have suffered from chronic pain after ripping apart my abdominal wall, causing permanent nerve damage. I generally keep it private, but in the face of the mounting despair and hopelessness in our society, I feel I ought to pull back the veil. One day I was fine, wrenching a toilet
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The technology that allowed Marty McFly to travel back in time in the 1985 movie Back to the Future was the mythical flux capacitor, designed by inventor Doc Brown. We’ve now developed our own kind of flux capacitor, as detailed recently in Physical Review Letters. While we can’t send a DeLorean car back in time,
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At the beginning of summer, we often are treated to a spate of “Summer Reading” lists that we are supposed to read “at the beach.” The trouble is, the lists are either so overstuffed with long books or are just so long that any attempt to read them at the beach will result in sun
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There is a meme that speaks directly to the hearts and minds of the overly self-conscious. Perhaps you’ve seen it; it goes something like this: ‘Brain: “I see you are trying to sleep. May I offer you a selection of your most embarrassing memories from the past 10 years?”’ At first, it seems odd to
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California governor Jerry Brown wants to impose the state’s first-ever tax on drinking water, tacked onto monthly bills, and accompanied by “fees” on fertilizer and dairy farmers. For embattled Californians, this new tax will come as no surprise. Forty years ago in 1978, property taxes were on the rise and the People’s Initiative to Limit
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Many people may not know that in 2017 Patriots quarterback Tom Brady rolled out a cookbook. For just $200, readers could get a “living document” dishing all the secrets of the star quarterback’s heavily (and strangely) regimented diet. The “TB12-alligned nutrition plan” had a total of 89 recipes. The notion that people would pay $200
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