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Are solar panels worth it?

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Today in many countries solar is the cheapest form of energy to produce. Millions of homes are equipped with rooftop solar, with most units paying for themselves in their first seven to 12 years and then generating further savings.
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Is Someone You Love Suffering in Silence? Here's What To Do | Gus Worland | TED

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Lots of people talk about the need to be physically fit, but mentally fit? Not as much.
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4 epidemics that almost happened (but didn't) - George Zaidan

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What makes for an effective outbreak response? Explore successful systems from around the world that prevented epidemics.
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Can I make Chipotle’s Burrito Bowl cheaper, healthier, and better tasting?

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Can I make Chipotle's Steak Burrito Bowl cheaper, healthier, and better tasting? Let's see.
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Your Body Killed Cancer 5 Minutes Ago

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Somewhere in your body, your immune system just quietly killed one of your own cells, stopping it from becoming cancer, and saving your life. It does that all the time.
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Ancient Humans Made Millions Of These - We Don’t Know Why

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The Acheulean handaxe was the most common tool of early humans, but we still don’t know what the heck they used it for.
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How Can We Respond to Climate Change?

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Now that we know how complex and interwoven climate change is with society globally, we can begin to see it everywhere.
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The man who lost his sense of touch

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Explore the science behind how your body and brain process different sensations like touch, pain, temperature, and spatial awareness.
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How to Calm Your Anxiety, From a Neuroscientist

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What if you could transform your anxiety into something you can actually use during your work day? Neuroscientist Wendy Suzuki shares two evidence-based activities -- breathing and movement -- that can soothe your nervous system and fuel creativity and connection.
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The Best Way to Boost Your Immune System

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There is this idea floating around that what doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger.
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You Can’t Actually Die Of Old Age

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Despite centuries of death records to the contrary, “dying of old age” is not medically possible; instead, it’s just a convenient catch-all.
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The Habit That Could Improve Your Career

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Paul Catchlove believes strongly in the power of reflection.
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Your Immune System is More Dangerous than You Think

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There is this idea floating around that what doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger. That surviving a disease leaves you better off. And it seems to make sense because we have all experienced this.
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The Disease You Will Never Survive

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A simple mis-folding in a certain brain protein causes a disease for which we have no cure.
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All the Ways Ice Baths Affect the Body | WIRED

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Everyone seems to be cold plunging, or at the very least, watching other people do it.
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What causes cavities? - Mel Rosenberg

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When a team of archeologists recently came across some 15,000-year-old human remains, they made an interesting discovery: the teeth of those ancient humans were riddled with holes.
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Why Do Heart Attacks Cause *Arm* Pain?

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When the brain receives pain from an internal organ, it often projects the pain in the wrong place because of the way sensory nerve paths converge.
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When Was The Worst Time In History To Die?

AdultsHealthHistoryHumanScience
By combining historical demography and epidemiology, we can (sort of) determine how people throughout history have died.
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Explore the three main ways viruses can be driven to extinction, and dig into the possibility of COVID-19 dying out.

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Viruses are wildly successful organisms. There are about 100 million times as many virus particles on Earth as there are stars in the observable universe.
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How to stay calm when you know you'll be stressed

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You're not at your best when you're stressed. In fact, your brain has evolved over millennia to release cortisol in stressful situations, inhibiting rational, logical thinking but potentially helping you survive, say, being attacked by a lion.
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The Future of Public Health: Crash Course Public Health #10

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We don’t know what the next big scientific breakthrough is going to be or what futuristic diseases we’ll encounter. But when it comes to our health, we actually have a pretty good idea of what could be next.