health
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How Will Our Bodies Change From Being Inside for Months?
According to multiple ads I’ve seen, we are in this thing together. “Together we will prevail,” the ads say. You lay there ” alone, in a shirt stained with who can say what ” and think: nothing. What is there to think? If you were going to have an interesting thought, you would’ve had it…
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Designer Turns Into Bane With A Robotic Face Mask That Auto-Closes When It Senses People
Unless you’re completely irresponsible and utterly lacking in empathy, wearing a face mask is going to be a routine part of life well into 2021. In a questionable attempt to make masks more comfortable, a YouTuber has shared his custom creation that can automatically open to let fresh air in when no one’s around—at the…
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Is ‘Lucid Dreaming’ Real?
Reality has plenty of exit-hatches: strong drugs, streamed television, certain corners of social media. But the most immersive reality-dissolver might be lucid dreaming, wherein the dreamer recognises they’re dreaming and proceeds to reshape their dreamscape per their own specifications. A slight disreputableness clings to the phenomenon”it sounds like a schoolyard fiction, the kind of thing…
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‘I’m Scared’: Study Links Cancer Alley Air Pollution To Higher Death Rates From Covid-19
Louisiana is starting to reopen on Friday, but that doesn’t mean much to 66-year-old Myrtle Felton. She lives in St. James Parish in the southeastern portion of the state where there’s not much business at all except the refineries and chemical plants that surround her home.