Dentally unsound
An attractive young woman glances to one side and touches her tongue to her upper lip. She looks as though she's just heard a dirty joke. An arrow points to an almost imperceptible white speck on her...
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Virgin birth, known to scientists as parthenogenesis, appears to be rather common in the animal kingdom. Many insects and other invertebrates are capable of switching between sexual and clonal...
View ArticleBooks are still most durable way to store information
Despite claims to the contrary, the storage media in wide use today—CD-ROMs, spinning hard drives, flash memory, etc.—aren’t very durable. “You’re talking years, not decades,” says Howard Besser, a...
View ArticleDentally unsound
The American Dental Association's oral cancer awareness campaign targets young white people -- but that's not who's most likely to get oral cancer.
View ArticleBooks are still most durable way to store information
That hard disk may not be as fail proof as you think, and CDs can degrade in as little as ten years
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