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The caricature of the snooty health nut may have some basis in reality.
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As sushi has gone mainstream, lower cost suppliers have come into the market offering fishy products.
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Recent science has shown how important our minds are to our bodies, but they also reveal how difficult it is to define and promote happiness.
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15 years after she lost the ability to move her body, Cathy Hutchinson is learning how to use her brain to control a robotic arm.
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A review of the advice that mothers have been given over the decades concludes that no one's exactly sure what they should do.
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A new longitudinal study in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin shows that family size, not birth order, matters for intelligence.
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