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Disease name: Situs inversus Affected populations: Approximately 1 in 10,000 people have situs inversus. Men are 1.5 times more likely than women to experience the condition. Causes: Situs inversus is a genetic condition that causes organs in the chest and
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On the short spring night of May 11, 1943, Szmul Zygielbojm—a Jewish Polish exile in despair—sat down and typed three letters in his flat, overlooking Porchester Square, near Paddington Station, in London. Zygielbojm was forty-eight years old, a pale figure
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Photographs by Sheila Pree Bright Text by Melissa L. Cooper The route that runs straight through Darien, Georgia, and cuts across the marshes, rivers and creeks along coastal McIntosh County leads to a historic site: Butler Island, a once vast
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The first and one of the most prolific meteor showers of 2025 will peak tonight, bringing super-bright fireballs and regular shooting stars. The Quadrantid meteor shower is not particularly well known, running from Dec. 26, 2024, through Jan. 16, 2025,
Bruno Richard Hauptmann (center) consults with his laywers during pretrial court proceedings on September 20, 1934. Irving Haberman / IH Images / Getty Images On January 2, 1935, Bruno Richard Hauptmann stepped into a courtroom in Flemington, New Jersey, accused
Episode 120 (The Prairie Chicken in Wisconsin: Highlights of a Study of Counts, Behavior, Turnover, Movement, and Habitat) The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX, a curated network of extraordinary, story-driven shows. Music We move between three
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Defeating old age? In 1899, Elie Metchnikoff woke up in Paris to learn he had done just that. At least, that’s what the newspaper headlines said. Before long he was inundated with mail from people begging him to help them
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The best way to prevent a recurrence of the terror in New Orleans is to dismantle the Islamic State and relegate it to obscurity. Geoff Burke / USA TODAY NETWORK via Reuters January 1, 2025, 9:01 PM ET The man
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In today’s newsletter, good company for the winter, and then: Illustration by Jun Cen What We’re Reading to Start the New Year New Yorker writers and contributors on the books keeping them company this winter. The New Yorker’s editors and
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