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A doctor feeds a malnourished child at a feeding centre run by Doctors Without Borders in Maiduguri, Nigeria. (AP/Sunday Alamba)

The looming doctor shortage

Fred M. Jacobs
(AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta/Twitter/realDonaldTrump)

Trump's climate ideas are problematic

Sameer shah, Devyani Singh, Scott McKenzie - The Conversation
The skeleton of a prehistoric Spinosaurus at Drouot Montaigne auction house in Paris, Nov. 29, 2009. (AP/Francois Mori)

Digitizing "dark data"

Charles Marshall - The Conversation
Planter beds in the UBC Garden of Eden. (Photo courtesy Karen Chernick / Civil Eats)

Feeding Philly with urban farms

Karen Chernick - Civil Eats
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(Janice Haney Carr/CDC/Sickle Cell Foundation of Georgia via AP) (AP)

Estrogen effect on autoimmune disorders

Sayantan Chakraborty
FILE - This June 14, 2011, file photo, shows the drug Lipitor at Medco Health Solutions Inc., in Willingboro, N.J. A new study shows very long-term benefits from even short-term use of cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, such as Lipitor. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File) (AP)

There's another type of bad cholesterol

Brian Mastroianni - Healthline
Breast cancer survivors walk on the field before an NFL game (AP/Seth Wenig)

The cost after breast cancer treatment

Ann Pietrangelo - Healthline
(Shutterstock)

Blue light from phones may be damaging

Rajiv Bahl
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A plane dusts 1,200 sheep against ticks with 10 per cent DDT powder, dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, on the Hoover ranch in Medford, Ore. in 1948. (AP Photo)

Long-banned DDT still poses health risks

Jamie Reno - Healthline
Augustin Dieudomme looks out at the flooded entrance to his apartment complex as it continues to rise in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence in Fayetteville, N.C., Sept. 18, 2018. (AP/David Goldman)

Here's how locals describe Florence

Eric Holthaus - Grist
(AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

A partial human-made disaster

Morten Wendelbo - The Conversation
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Foster kids drugged without oversight

Nicole Karlis
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Slashing emissions exponentially

Nathanael Johnson - Grist
(Getty/Kevork Djansezian)

Marijuana overtakes heroin in 2017

Jenny Gold - KFF Health News
Jerry Brown (AP/Eric Risberg)

California to launch a satellite

Nathanael Johnson, Rebecca Leber - Grist
(AP/Anja Niedringhaus)

Trumping Trump on climate change

Nathanael Johnson - Grist
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I allow my baby screen time

Parven Kaur - Common Sense Media
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3 companies control half of all seeds

Mark Schapiro
(AP/Gerald Herbert)

How to improve disaster recovery

Zack Rosenburg - SPB
Bill Gates; Steven Pinker (Getty/Shutterstock/Salon)

Why Pinker doesn't get the Enlightenment

Erika Schelby
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TOKYO, JAPAN - OCTOBER 19: The Comminicationa Robot 'Paro' for use in care homes and nursing homes during the Japan Robot Week 2016 at Tokyo Big Sight on October 19, 2016 in Tokyo, Japan. At this biennial event, the participating companies exhibit their latest service robotic technologies and components. (Photo by Taro Karibe/Getty Images) (Getty Images)

Why we love robotic toys

S. Brent Rodriguez-Plate - The Conversation
(Getty/Instants)

Rehabilitation plus rehab?

Anna Gorman - KFF Health News
Joe Gore prepares for Hurricane Florence as he boards up windows on a home in Emerald Isle, N.C., Sept. 12, 2018. (AP/Tom Copeland)

Is your city prepared for disaster?

Reese May - SPB
(AP/Salon)

How algorithms reproduce inequality

Chauncey DeVega
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