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“At that point I started texting everyone I’d come in contact with over the week,” he says. Realizing how many people visit Provincetown from across the country, he posted about…

We no longer have a supply problem with vaccines. The only question left is, are you limited by demand or by logistics. In less vaccinated countries, there isn’t much demand.…

Photo: New Africa (Shutterstock) Ah, the toilet. An invention so perfect we haven’t made any substantial updates to it in the five centuries or so since its introduction. The flush…

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Bate’s strategy pulled threads from the scientific debate about DDT and spun them into a tale that warned against Western-led public health. Malaria rates were climbing globally, he wrote, especially…

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Though hand sanitizer has been around for decades, it became indispensable at the beginning of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic—and since then, the product has been subject to a number of…