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Harmonica Colds

December 2, 2013

A listener asks if he can reinfect himself with the same cold.

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Grapefruit & Medication

November 29, 2013

Grapefruit can interact in potentially dangerous ways with a variety of prescription medications.

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Gluten-Free Foods

November 28, 2013

Gluten-free diets are all the rage, but only a small portion of the population is truly sensitive to …

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Octopus Life & Death

October 18, 2013

Octopuses have an unusual reproductive strategy: they die soon after mating.

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Email Spam

October 16, 2013

Email spammers use disorienting techniques to get you to click on their links.

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Artificial Dyes

August 14, 2013

Some people argue that food dyes are harmful to human health, but do decades of safety research back …

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How Paleo is “Paleo”?

August 1, 2013

Did our hunter-gatherer ancestors really eat a “Paleo” diet?

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