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Some people will deny anything that displeases or scares them: unusual pain in their chests, unwanted lumps beneath their skin, or the fact that humans…

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People wrap themselves in their beliefs. And they do it in such a way that you can't set them free. Not even…
Be sceptical, ask questions, demand proof. Demand evidence. Don't take anything for granted. But here's the thing: When you get proof, you…
We are inhabited by as many as ten thousand bacterial species; these cells outnumber those which we consider our own by ten…
The passengers in our microbiome contain at least four million genes, and they work constantly on our behalf: they manufacture vitamins and…
If left untreated, Lyme disease can be crippling, yet it is a difficult illness to contract: a tick needs to attach itself…
I moved from Moscow to Rome with my family and two bicycles in 1998, and spent a lot of that year- and…
Even a two-degree climb in average global temperatures could cause crop failures in parts of the world that can least afford to…
Although it may seem callous to say so, millions of Americans are lucky that Magic Johnson was infected with H.I.V. There is…
One morning every spring, for exactly two minutes, Israel comes to a stop. Pedestrians stand in place, drivers pull over to the…
Much of modern molecular biology and microbiology has been based on the effort to decipher the basic code of life, which is…
I have covered wars, before the epidemic began and since. They are all ugly and painful and unjust, but for me, nothing…
Why do people refuse to vaccinate their children against measles or whooping cough? In many cases, because they have never seen measles…

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I was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman; I am taking my lumps and bumps for being a… — Sandra Cisneros
He went home one evening and drank three cups of tea with three lumps of sugar in each cup, cut his jugular… — Flann O'Brien
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. — Gilbert Highet
Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs. — B. C. Forbes
The role of the schoolmaster is to collect little plastic lumps of human dough from private households and shape them on the… — Edward Alsworth Ross
Who cares if there are lumps on my thighs? I'm guilty of having human legs made up of fat, muscle, and skin,… — Kristen Bell
The fact that people can forget these simple truths when intellectualizing about children shows how far modern doctrines have taken us. They… — Steven Pinker
The world is a glorious place, and filled with so many unexpected moments that I'd get lumps in my throat, as though… — Douglas Coupland
An overdose of praise is like 10 lumps of sugar in coffee; only a very few people can swallow it. — Emily Post
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own… — Gilbert Highet
Each of the essays in this volume ranges widely across technical and philosophical domains. They examine both familiar automatons from throughout history… — Rodney Brooks
I love to go out in late September among the fat, overripe, icy, black blackberries to eat blackberries for breakfast, the stalks… — Galway Kinnell

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