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5 Filthy Reasons You May Want to Forget About Fish

People tend to have a love or hate relationship with fish. Whichever side you happen to be on, there is no denying some its health benefits: omega 3s, low in fat, high in protein, and more vitamins...

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Top 8 Reasons Why Everyone Should Be Terrified of the Ebola Virus

Ever watched a good pandemic horror film? The signs usually start small – perhaps a test tube containing hazardous contents falls out of a lab assistant’s hand, or an animal attacks a human resulting...

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The 5 Likeliest Ways You’ll Die Before 30

Get the benzodiazepines ready! If you’re terrified of dying young, or dying at all for that matter (spoiler alert: it’s going to happen), then this article might not help with your anxiety. However,...

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3 Laboratory Accidents That Revolutionized Modern Medicine

The practice of medicine is one of meticulous study, yielding small incremental advancements. Often times, doctors and researchers spend entire careers unraveling minutiae so technical you need a...

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5 Real, Documented Cases of Superhuman Abilities

Faced with the harsh realities of our own powerlessness, humans have long invented and cherished supernatural guardians. Their power derives from some of humanity’s deepest desires: to live forever, to...

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5 Medical Miracles That Nobody Seems to Care About

Having grown up with so many technologies that take us from point A to Point B, or entertain us, or save our lives, it’s tough to appreciate the gravity of some of our modern day inventions. But when...

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The Top 5 Weirdest Diets from Around the World

It wasn’t too long ago that being fat was a desirable trait. After all, if you had enough food to keep yourself stuffed and so little work that you never had to break a sweat, you must have been...

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3 Horrible Diseases We’ll See Cured in our Lifetime!

Like every generation, we have our fair share of problems: poverty, terrorism, disease, Justin Bieber. Generations before us, aka the Greatest Generation, Baby Boomers, and Generation X, solved many of...

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5 Incredible Ways that Medical 3D Printing Can Change Your Life

An engineer might tell you that 3D printing is an additive process, which works by depositing very thin successive layers of material according to a digital design. For the rest of us, it appears to be...

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5 Foods That Will Make you REEK!

You know that old saying, “You are what you eat?” Well, that one might not be entirely true (thank God, or else this writer would look like a meat covered Papa John’s pizza), but it turns out that you...

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The Dawn of the Designer Baby

What the hell is a designer baby? No, we don’t mean a toddler that sports a Louis Vuitton jump suit in the crib. We’re referring to the fast approaching science of being able to manipulate genetic code...

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The 4 Most Ridiculous Prescription Medications Ever Invented

Did you know the United States is one of the few countries in the world that permits drug companies to advertise directly to consumers? Other nations require pharmaceuticals to market their products...

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Top 5 Serious Health Risks of Getting a Tattoo

Tattoos aren’t just for sailors and prostitutes these days. According to a poll done by Fox News, one in five people are inked. In fact you probably have several friends who sport tattoos, and if they...

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Top 5 Most Brutal Biological Weapons in Human History

Humanity has long used the various products of merciless mother nature to kill each other.  Starting with weapons forged from trees, and quickly expanding to stone, bronze, iron then steel, we...

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Ranking the Past Five U.S. Presidents by Their Health

Was the Presidential Physical Fitness Test the bane of anyone else’s grade school existence? For one dreaded week, the only class I looked forward to mutated into my own worst enemy as we were forced...

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3 Amazing Prosthetics Straight Out of Science Fiction

Science fiction is only fiction until it becomes fact. Some technologies, like intergalactic starship travel, might be slightly beyond the reach of our generation, but the vast majority of technology...

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Orgasmic Birth

If you’ve watched any movie ever, you’d think childbirth is nothing but primal screams and the obligatory, ‘somebody-kill-my-husband-while-getting-me-the-drugs” humor. However, if you’ve birthed a...

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Six Super Strange Side Effects from Prescription Medications

So your doctor has prescribed you a certain medication for (insert condition here). You toss the pharmacy’s pamphlet, because you know what to expect: a little headache, a little diarrhea, and maybe...

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6 Reasons Why Cigarettes Are Far Worse For You Than Pot

Approximately no one needs to be reminded that smoking is detrimental to your health. Just look at any gruesome television ad, or cigarette warning label, or crazy taxes (did you know a pack goes for...

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The Wizard of Dr. Oz: His Top 5 Shameless Ratings Ploys

Dr. Mehmet Oz’s resume reads longer than most. He received his undergraduate at Harvard University, MD from University of Pennsylvania, and MBA from Penn’s renowned Wharton School of Business. He’s the...

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