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Nazism was a society-wide catastrophe for Germany, but some professions deserve more blame than others. In particular, there was a surprisingly large percentage of doctors and engineers among the Nazis. Sociologists and historians have now worked out why.
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When Charles Dickens published Bleak House in 1852, he included a scene where one character spontaneously combusts. đ„ đ„ đ„ Readers loved it, but one of Dickensâs good friendsâa former scientistâblasted Dickens for his scientific ignorance. It ignited one of the strangest controversies in literary history.
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It was one the largest epidemics in American history: 30,000 people paralyzed over a few months in 1930. A dogged epidemiologist eventually traced the cause to adulterated bottles of an illegal liquor/medicine called âjake.â Yet the epidemic is almost completely forgotten. About the only place it survived was in blues songs...
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Asbestos was once considered a miracle substanceâa wonder of the modern age, due to its role in stopping the fires that once plagued every major city. Unfortunately, it also shreds peopleâs lungs. Most countries were willing to live with that trade-off, until a crusading doctor named Irving Selikoff made it his life's mission to get asbestos banned.
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Rickets was once a devastating disease: up to 90 percent of the children showed symptoms in some cities, including bent spines and bowed legs, and it resulted in many women dying during childbirth. The search for the cause of rickets took decades, and ended with a startling discoveryâthat much like plants, human beings had the ability to photosynthesize.
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Leonard Darwin had a lot to live up to. He was the son of the legendary Charles, and several siblings proved to be brilliant scientists as well. But Leonard never quite measured up as a mediocre military officer and two-bit politician. In his fifties, he pronounced his life a âfailure.â But in his sixties, he finally found his callingâthe dark pseudoscience of eugenics, a field he embraced in part to prove that he wasnât the failure he imagined.
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A young woman in the mid-1900s couldnât take an at-home pregnancy test. Instead, she sent a vial of urine to a clinic, where a technician would, of all things, inject it into a frog, and hormones in the urine would cause the frog to lay eggs. This frog-based test was far faster, easier, and cleaner than any pregnancy test before, and it shifted power for family planning from doctors to women themselves.
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After scientists had a handle on how many chromosomes humans have, other researchers began exploring whether certain ailments might be caused by chromosomal abnormalities. To this end, a French cardiologist discovered that Down syndrome was caused by the presence of an extra chromosome in humans. But a colleague stole credit for her work, and the battle over their legacies continues to this day, in part because the colleague is on track to become a certified Catholic saint.
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It seems like a simple question: how many chromosomes do human beings have? But getting an accurate count proved surprisingly hard for much of last century. In fact, virtually every textbook once cited an incorrect number, until in 1956, a fiery Indonesian scientist finally determined the true countâand had to battle his boss over who would receive credit for this legacy-making discovery.
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The 1910 return of Halleyâs comet was greeted with rapture around the worldâat least at first. Due to irresponsible speculation by scientists about the theoretical dangers of a close encounter with a comet, many people grew terrified of Halleyâs approach and took drastic measures. They fled their homes, hid out in wells or caves, even committed suicide. Itâs a grave reminder of scientific communication gone very wrong.
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Itâs the 80th anniversary of the Dutch Hongerwinter during World War II, which led to widespread starvation, and an inadvertent breakthrough in treating deadly celiac disease.
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Parasites can force animals to do nefarious things by manipulating their mindsâincluding, uncomfortably, the minds of human beings.
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Japanese physicist Fusa Miyake has sparked a revolution in archaeology by studying radioactive tree ringsâwork that also terrifies astronomers, who fear it foretells doom for our civilization.
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A woman who drowned in Paris became one of the most famous faces in the world as the model for CPR dummies, saving millions of lives and inspiring artists from Pablo Picasso to Michael Jacksonâall while remaining completely unknown.
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In the early 1800s, the first Egyptian mummies in Europe served as a crucial test for evolutionâa test that, according to people then, evolution flunked.
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In the 1800s, mummies found their way into everything from fertilizer to food, and were especially prized as medicine. Mummymania was a strange time...
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Physicist Gyorgy Hevesy had a talent for tricks and stuntsâincluding one that prevented Nazi stormtroopers from stealing a gold Nobel Prize.
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