Morbid and Misunderstood

… College of Physicians of Philadelphia:

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In Search of the Good Death

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Do You Believe in Magic?

… significant pharmaceutical developments

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Quoth the Raven

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Meet the Dean of American Cooking

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Who’s the Nerd Now?

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Bugging Out

… your windshield now compared with, say, in the 1990s, caught the public’s attention. Save the insects! people pleaded. We need them to pollinate our crops, to feed the birds, frogs, and other small vertebrates we admire, to help recycle waste, and to perform other essential tasks taking place outside the walls of our homes …

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Teach What You Love

… had by few, and fewer all the time.
How long, really, will we draw any students at all, if what we do is mock the meat that feeds us and has for so long? Says Emerson in “The Conservative,” “The past has baked your loaf and in the strength of its bread you would break …

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How to Save Farming From Itself

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How Architecture Shapes Our Emotions

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