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In these days before antiseptics, doctors themselves also suffered high mortality rates. Florence Nightingale, a nurse during the Crimean War (1853-1856), watched…
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Lithium tweaks many mood-altering chemicals in the brain, and its effects are complicated. Most interesting, lithium seems to reset the body’s circadian…
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Never underestimate spite as a motivator for genius.
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So if big enough droplets fell far enough fast enough, someone floating right near the metallic hydrogen layer inside Jupiter maybe, just…
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Mendeleev, unlike the squeamish Meyer, had balls enough to predict that new elements would be dug up. Look harder, you chemists and…
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If anything runs deeper than a mathematician’s love of variables, it’s a scientist’s love of constants.
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Art, in other words, betrays a sexy mental fitness.
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Because our lungs regularly deal with carbon dioxide, they see nothing wrong with absorbing its cousin, SiO2, which can be fatal. Many…
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All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits…
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I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree.
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Every change in human attitude must come through internal understanding and acceptance. Man is the only known creature who can reshape and…
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We're all just a bundle of habits shaped by our memories. And to the extent that we control our lives, we do…
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We have the ability to create choice by altering our interpretations of the world.
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The traveler's boast, sometimes couched as a complaint, is that of having been an eyewitness, and invariably this experience - shocking though…
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Our legacy is really the lives we touch, the inspiration we give, altering someone's plan - if even for a moment -…
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Men and women alike, if you think that altering the tip of your nose with surgery will make you happier, I would…
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