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Topic: explainer
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Why this Italian condiment is so special
Michael La Corte
The major COVID-19 strains, explained
Nicole Karlis
Why NASA just greenlit two Venus probes
Nicole Karlis
The neurological reason you say "um"
Adriel John Orena - Massive Science
How catfishers exploit basic neurology
Stacey Wood, Tessa Solomon Lane, Brian Keeley, Thomas Borowski
Scant evidence for "hidden tongue-ties"
Christina Szalinski - Undark
Pfizer vax approved for teens, preteens
Carmen Heredia Rodriguez - KFF Health News
What is food poisoning anyway?
Mary Elizabeth Williams
The mysteries of the pineal gland
Matthew Rozsa
Church attendance linked to COVID rates?
Ryan Burge - The Conversation
Whales face new and emerging threats
John R. Platt - The Revelator
Rhubarb is much more than a pie filling
Ashlie D. Stevens
The worst moms in the animal kingdom
Matthew Rozsa
Why we call hit movies "blockbusters"
Michele Debczak - Mental Floss
Why do some jeans have fake pockets?
Jake Rossen - Mental Floss
Is there a limit to the human lifespan?
Nicole Karlis
How innumeracy threatens public health
David Robert Grimes
A.I. research hits a dead end
Thomas Nail
What women know about perfectionism
Gail Cornwall
Fighting to end a yoga ban in AL schools
Nicole Karlis
Do kids need COVID vaccines? Maybe
Sara Talpos - Undark
There's a spectrum of vaccine hesitancy
Nicole Karlis
Are mass shootings an American epidemic?
Lacey Wallace - The Conversation
Why you should be cooking up artichokes
Ashlie D. Stevens
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![Descartes' (1596-1650) idea of vision, [1692]. The passage of nervous impulses from the eye to the pineal gland and so to the muscles. From Rene Descartes' Opera Philosophica (Tractatus de homine), 1692. (Oxford Science Archive/Print Collector/Getty Images)](https://www.salon.com/app/uploads/2021/05/descartes-pineal-gland-0514211.jpg "The mysteries of the pineal gland")
