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January 2024

The Final Word on Washing Chicken
Let's settle this once and for all.
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Stephen Skolnick
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December 2023

The Time I Accidentally Destroyed My Armpit Microbiome
Sort of an origin story, come to think of it.
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Stephen Skolnick
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November 2023

Bacterial Xanax
A medical mystery from the 1980s that might hold the secret to anxiety disorders
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Stephen Skolnick
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October 2023

My White Whale
The big bug that might let you live to 120.
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August 2023

The Thousand Secret Ways the Food is Poison: #3 - Phthalates
The Name of a Modern Demon
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Stephen Skolnick
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July 2023

EAT MANUALLY.
...by which I mean "not automatically".
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Stephen Skolnick
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The Thousand Secret Ways the Food is Poison: #2 - Cry Toxins
The most roundabout way of giving you a tummyache that fate has yet devised.
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Stephen Skolnick
5

June 2023

On the Origins of Type 1 Diabetes
An original hypothesis
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Stephen Skolnick
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May 2023

Modesty is a Risk Factor for HIV.
Never suppose conspiracy where complexity will suffice.
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Stephen Skolnick
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Literally Imagine Dragons
Crude oil is full of traces of a bygone world. One with different rules. Exotic chemistries. Fire-breathing dinosaurs.
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Stephen Skolnick
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April 2023

Science Could Use More Magical Thinking
The first person to put feathers on their arrows couldn't have really known what they were doing. It didn't matter.
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Stephen Skolnick
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