Moore Lowdown
Is Augmented Reality Diminished Reality?
It's called augmented reality, and it's coming to a smartphone near you. In fact, with Pokémon GO it has arrived with a bang. But apparently augmentation and reality ain't what they used to be.
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Blood Donations, Sexual Orientation, and Societal Health
The FDA is considering lifting restrictions on blood donation based on sexual orientation. If they do, increasing the blood supply will be only the most straightforward benefit.
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How Brock Turner Can Help Us Unearth the Depths of Our Patriarchy
The latest meager sentence for rape may be less a single miscarriage of justice than a signal of just how deeply embedded sexism remains...
Celebrity Health
Public Bathrooms: Hygiene Trumps Gender
Unisex bathrooms in public areas will solve the Transgender controversy but what about hygiene?
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SAGE: A Simple Window on Cognitive Function
Self-administered online tests are a dime a dozen. But one of the simplest has shown itself an effective tool for showing you something about what's going on with your most complex organ
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First Opinion: Immediate Doctor Access from the Comforts of Home
With First Opinion, the doctor is always in...
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Looking Loneliness in the Face
The professor had never received such a note on an exam: "Please don't waste your time grading this, as I am not in your class! I just did not want to be lonely."
Celebrity Health
Marathon Man, Meet Marathon Goddess
Running 52 marathons in 52 weeks to raise money and awareness to stop pancreatic cancer was an incredible journey. But we’re not done yet! Pancreatic cancer still needs to be stopped - Julie Weiss
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Growth That Isn't Good: The Unhealthy Side of Getting Bigger
Economic growth is generally regarded as a goal. But when it's not part and parcel of increasing human happiness, growth can tear us down.
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Alcohol: The True Gateway Drug?
Generations of kids have been warned that marijuana is the gateway drug to more dangerous substances. It's a classic case of both logical fallacy & government misinforming the public—all while a likelier candidate has been pushed with government sanction.
