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While it makes for a colorful analogy, comparing the brain to a muscle is inaccurate and misleading.

The neurological reason you say "um"

Adriel John Orena - Massive Science
Catfishing (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How catfishers exploit basic neurology

Stacey Wood, Tessa Solomon Lane, Brian Keeley, Thomas Borowski
(Getty Images)

Scant evidence for "hidden tongue-ties"

Christina Szalinski - Undark
Repeated vials and syringes with covid-19 vaccine (Getty Images)

Pfizer vax approved for teens, preteens

Carmen Heredia Rodriguez - KFF Health News
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Young woman looking nauseous with hand over mouth (Getty Images)

What is food poisoning anyway?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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)

The mysteries of the pineal gland

Matthew Rozsa
Empty pews and stained glass windows in church (Getty Images/ Monashee Frantz)

Church attendance linked to COVID rates?

Ryan Burge - The Conversation
Humpback Whale parent and calf (Getty Images)

Whales face new and emerging threats

John R. Platt - The Revelator
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Rhubarb (Getty Images)

Rhubarb is much more than a pie filling

Ashlie D. Stevens
Common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) (Piotr Krzeslak)

The worst moms in the animal kingdom

Matthew Rozsa

Why we call hit movies "blockbusters"

Michele Debczak - Mental Floss
Little pocket in jeans (Getty Images)

Why do some jeans have fake pockets?

Jake Rossen - Mental Floss
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Senior couple on beach (Roger Wright/Getty Images)

Is there a limit to the human lifespan?

Nicole Karlis
Doctor giving first aid bandage after vaccination to senior woman (Jasmin Merdan/Getty Images)

How innumeracy threatens public health

David Robert Grimes
Artificial Intelligence robot face is divided in two parts, completion and networking on circuit background (Getty Images)

A.I. research hits a dead end

Thomas Nail
Preparing pencils (Peter Dazeley/Getty Images)

What women know about perfectionism

Gail Cornwall
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Kids having a yoga class (Getty Images)

Fighting to end a yoga ban in AL schools

Nicole Karlis
Children painting Easter eggs at home (Getty Images)

Do kids need COVID vaccines? Maybe

Sara Talpos - Undark
Anti-vaccine activists protest and hold signs in front of the Massachusetts State House against Governor Charlie Baker's mandate that all Massachusetts school students enrolled in child care, pre-school, K-12, and post-secondary institutions must receive the flu vaccine this year on August 30, 2020 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Scott Eisen/Getty Images)

There's a spectrum of vaccine hesitancy

Nicole Karlis
Assorted pistols on display (Samuel Corum/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

Are mass shootings an American epidemic?

Lacey Wallace - The Conversation
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Artichokes (Getty Images/BruceBlock)

Why you should be cooking up artichokes

Ashlie D. Stevens
American writer and biographer Blake Bailey (Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Philip Roth biographer accused of rape

Ashlie D. Stevens
Digital generated image of circular pattern made out of Syringes with COVID-19 vaccine targeting into coronavirus cell (Getty Images)

Can you get COVID-19 after vaccination?

Matthew Rozsa
NFT CryptoArt display in an art gallery (Gremlin/Getty stock photo)

Why would anyone buy crypto art?

Aaron Hertzmann - The Conversation
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