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  • By The Atlantic   -   Mar 31, 2023

    THE WOOLLY-MAMMOTH MEATBALL IS AN ALL-TIME GREAT FOOD STUNT

    On Tuesday , two men at a museum in the Netherlands lifted a black sheet off a table to reveal a cantaloupe-size globe of overcooked...

    Food, Lifting
  • By The Atlantic   -   Mar 31, 2023

    THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS A CASUAL INTERACTION WITH YOUR DOCTOR ANYMORE

    The pandemic initiated a slew of transformations, and though many have not stuck, one indisputably has: Telehealth is booming in America....

  • By The Atlantic   -   Mar 31, 2023

    TO UNDERSTAND ANTI-VAXXERS, CONSIDER ARISTOTLE

    Among the many difficulties imposed upon America by the pandemic, the scourge of anti-vaccine sentiment-and the preventable deaths...

    Vaccination, Hospital, Injections, Injection
  • By The Atlantic   -   Mar 31, 2023

    LIFE IS WORSE FOR OLDER PEOPLE NOW

    This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic,...

    Hospital, Hands
  • By The Atlantic   -   Mar 31, 2023

    A MAJOR CLUE TO COVID'S ORIGINS IS JUST OUT OF REACH

    Updated at 2:45 p.m. on March 21, 2023 Last week, the ongoing debate about COVID-19's origins acquired a new plot twist. A French evolutionary...

  • By The Atlantic   -   Mar 31, 2023

    THE STRONGEST EVIDENCE YET THAT AN ANIMAL STARTED THE PANDEMIC

    For three years now, the debate over the origins of the coronavirus pandemic has ping-ponged between two big ideas: that SARS-CoV-2...

  • By The Atlantic   -   Mar 31, 2023

    THE ROGUE THEORY THAT GRAVITY CAUSES IBS

    Bad things happen to a human body in zero gravity. Just look at what happens to astronauts who spend time in orbit: Bones disintegrate....

    Legs
  • By The Atlantic   -   Mar 31, 2023

    THE COVID QUESTION THAT WILL TAKE DECADES TO ANSWER

    To be a newborn in the year 2023-and, almost certainly, every year that follows-means emerging into a world where the coronavirus is...

    Baby, Child
  • By The Atlantic   -   Mar 31, 2023

    MILK HAS LOST ALL MEANING

    You overhear a lot of strange things in coffee shops, but an order for an “almond-based dairy-alternative cappuccino” is not one of...

  • By The Atlantic   -   Mar 31, 2023

    HOW PEOPLE WITH DEMENTIA MAKE SENSE OF THE WORLD

    Elizabeth often met her husband, Mitch, after work at the same restaurant in Lower Manhattan. Mitch was usually there by the time she...

  • By The Atlantic   -   Mar 31, 2023

    WE HAVE A MINK PROBLEM

    Bird flu, at this point, is somewhat of a misnomer. The virus, which primarily infects birds, is circulating uncontrolled around much...

    Flu
  • By The Atlantic   -   Mar 31, 2023

    NO ONE REALLY KNOWS HOW MUCH COVID IS SILENTLY SPREADING. AGAIN

    In the early days of the pandemic, one of the scariest and most surprising features of SARS-CoV-2 was its stealth. Initially assumed...

  • By The Atlantic   -   Mar 31, 2023

    THE LAB LEAK WILL HAUNT US FOREVER

    The lab-leak theory lives! Or better put: It never dies. In response to new but unspecified intelligence, the U.S. Department of Energy...

  • By The Atlantic   -   Mar 31, 2023

    ARE COLDS REALLY WORSE, OR ARE WE ALL JUST WEAK BABIES NOW?

    For the past few weeks, my daily existence has been scored by the melodies of late winter: the drip of melting ice, the soft rustling...

    Cold, Nose, Eye, Baby
  • By The Atlantic   -   Mar 31, 2023

    A SLICE OF ‘BACON' MADE ME BELIEVE IN FAKE MEAT

    Last month, at a dining table in a sunny New York City hotel suite, I found myself thrown completely off guard by a strip of fake bacon....

    Food
  • By The Atlantic   -   Mar 31, 2023

    WASH YOUR HANDS AND PRAY YOU DON'T GET SICK

    In one very specific and mostly benign way, it's starting to feel a lot like the spring of 2020: Disinfection is back. “Bleach is my...

    Hands
  • By The Atlantic   -   Mar 31, 2023

    THE FUTURE OF LONG COVID

    In the early spring of 2020, the condition we now call long COVID didn't have a name, much less a large community of patient advocates....

    Drugs
  • By The Atlantic   -   Mar 31, 2023

    A NEW TURN IN THE FIGHT OVER MASKS

    For many Americans, wearing a mask has become a relic. But fighting about masks, it seems, has not. Masking has widely been seen as...

    Face
  • By The Atlantic   -   Mar 31, 2023

    SO ARE NONSTICK PANS SAFE OR WHAT?

    I grew up in a nonstick-pan home. No matter what was on the menu, my dad would reach for the Teflon-coated pan first: nonstick for...

    Food, Lifting
  • By The Atlantic   -   Mar 31, 2023

    AMERICA IS TOO DEPRESSED ABOUT VACCINES

    The world has just seen the largest vaccination campaign in history. At least 13 billion COVID shots have been administered-more injections,...

    Injections, Injection, Depression, Vaccination

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