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  • What Ever Happened to Mad Cow?

    What Ever Happened to Mad Cow?

    One of the most existentially frightening illnesses ever to be discovered was mad cow disease, a fatal prion-spread illness that appeared in animals in the 1980s and killed over 200 people during the height of the outbreak in the late 1990s. You don’t hear much about mad cow today, but the threat still looms. Here’s…


  • 11 Psychology Terms You’re Misusing, According to Psychologists

    11 Psychology Terms You’re Misusing, According to Psychologists

    Psychology-related words and phrases tend to creep into our everyday vocabularies. Unfortunately, many of them have been twisted in our minds, and we now use them to refer to the wrong thing — or, in some cases, science has moved on and we’re talking about something woefully outdated. Here are some of the worst offenders…