Month: August 2014
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vaccine
Vaccine For every deadly virus, we hope there is a vaccine. The word, it turns out, milks a very old root. In 1796, British scientist Edward Jenner is credited with inventing the first vaccine by inoculating patients with cowpox in order to protect against smallpox. That’s the nice way of putting it. The story is…
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virus
For so many of us, a virus might spell the end of our computer–not our lives, as we are witnessing so tragically in the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Sometimes a viral video is precisely what is needed to distract us from today’s feverish crises. Too often, though, a viral video may be distracting us from them. But…
Mashed Radish 