When faking an identity, it helps to choose something foreign to your audience.

Broken heart syndrome, or Takotsubo syndrome, is thought to be caused by stress. It seems to be on the increase during the COVID-19 pandemic.

US courts operate as "informationally disabled" institutions that may lack (or intentionally exclude) important facts when making complex legal decisions.

The early heating systems of New England kept Harvard students cold until the early twentieth century.

The first head of the Federal Civil Defense Administration planned on maintaining segregation in bomb shelters, and in the post-nuclear future.

Gaps in the forest canopy can reveal important information, and result in regeneration.

The writer used hard-boiled fiction as a wide lens to accurately capture the widescreen disparity of Black life in the 1970s.

Tracking the accomplishments of RoDyMan in a valiant attempt to make a pizza.

Buffalo Soldiers were assigned to assess bicycles as military transportation on the frontier at the end of the nineteenth century.

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