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Click:Heavy Duty Scanner Often, for non-athletes, watching the Olympics is an exercise in frustration. It’s just hours of gawking at extremely gifted competitors make very difficult things look very easy. The 2018 Winter Olympics will be no different. Alpine ski jumps, snowboarding moves, impossible-seeming hockey shots—it’ll be a buffet of heroic efforts. But what are…

Nervous looks. Passing notes. Gossip around the lunch table. The middle school relationship is an iconic coming-of-age staple that has remained unchanged for decades. But smartphones and apps have fundamentally transformed how kids, you know, “like-like” each other. The youths of Gen Z are communicating more than any generation before them, while simultaneously cutting off…

Last season, Grey’s Anatomy had a particularly gross episode—even by Grey’s Anatomy standards—wherein a patient presented with worms in her stomach. A lot of them. Like many of the medical cases on the Shondaland flagship show, it has basis in reality (the condition is known as “Ascaris lumbricoides”1). The scene of doctors taking photographs of…

For almost as long as the internet has existed, so too have pro-eating disorder communities: blogs, groups, forums, and social media profiles where users share stories and photos related to disordered eating and body image. Some members simply want a judgment-free place to express their feelings about a complicated illness, but others promote more dangerous…

Click:dog cake topper 3 inch Q: Before a date, I like to do a little online research on the person. If I find interesting stuff, should I bring it up? A: Sir John Hawkins was a British slave trader who voyaged through what is now Florida in 1565. The landscape Hawkins traversed was murky, disorienting,…

It's the beginning of a new semester for introductory physics students. I have a new message that might not be very popular: Read the textbook. And I don't just mean, like, here and there. Read the whole thing as as soon as possible. I know many students have different ideas about the role of the…

With August 14 approaching fast, fans of World of Warcraft are eagerly awaiting the release of Battle for Azeroth, the seventh expansion in the mega-hit MMORPG. WoW was first released in 2004, and in the fourteen years since, expansions and patches have introduced iconic features like flight (Burning Crusade), the dungeon finder (Wrath of the…

SoftBank, the Japanese telecommunications giant, has been on a multibillion-dollar acquisition and investment spree for the past year or so. It isn’t over. Today pharmaceutical company Roivant is announcing a $1.1 billion investment, mostly from the SoftBank Vision Fund. It's perhaps the largest single biotech investment ever. And after the biggest biotech IPOs of 2015…

On Wednesday, a federal judge ruled that President Donald Trump’s practice of blocking his critics on Twitter violates the First Amendment. The practice is unconstitutional, Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald wrote in her 75-page decision, because the @realdonaldtrump Twitter account is a public forum operated by the government, meaning viewpoint discrimination is strictly prohibited. While the…

Each year, the world throws 8 billion metric tons of plastic into the ocean, about a dump truck every minute. Some washes up on beaches, some sinks, and the rest floats to the surface, where currents sweep it into giant rafts of garbage. Over time, chopping waves and beating sunlight break those plastics down into…