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		<title>Lucy Westenra was apparently AB positive (AB+)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I recently revisited Dracula, I noticed that Van Helsing treats Lucy Westenra with a blood transfusion, as Dr. Seward explains: Van Helsing and I were shown up to Lucy’s room. If I was shocked when I saw her yesterday, I was horrified when I saw her to-day. She was ghastly, chalkily pale; the red [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>User error, it turned out, was actually designer error</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 11:26:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After Vietnam, David Epstein explains (in Inside the Box), the Army moved from Nylon flak vests to Kevlar, then added rifle-proof ceramic plates, and then added extra protection against “frag” for the neck, groin, shoulders, etc.: When a vehicle rolled over, or caught fire, or went underwater, soldiers were unable to move quickly enough to [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>I thought it was some trick of the moonlight, some weird effect of shadow</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 11:40:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I finally read Dracula, I was struck by the number of visually interesting scenes that I didn’t remember from any of the movie versions I’d seen. For instance, when Harker is a prisoner in Dracula’s castle, he sees something he can’t quite believe: As I leaned from the window my eye was caught by [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The ideas that made an impact in the long run were those that embedded something new in something already established</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 11:59:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Shakespeare’s era, David Epstein explains (in Inside the Box), creativity was more associated with the ability to improve upon something that existed than with sheer originality: If the audience already knew the story, they could readily take in the unique aspects that each new creator brought to it. […] Robert McKee, in his classic [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Older adults are more likely to activate opposing ankle muscles at the same time</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 11:17:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As people age, they adopt a more cautious walking strategy, prioritizing staying upright over moving efficiently: The study, conducted by researchers at Flinders University and the University of Canberra, found that aging leads to a more “safety-first” walking pattern. While this approach improves stability, it also reduces speed and energy efficiency, helping explain why older [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>When the star returned from injury, the team’s strategy went only partly back to normal</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 11:53:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A pair of researchers analyzed nearly thirty thousand NBA games, David Epstein explains (in Inside the Box), in an attempt to discern the impact on a team when a star player is temporarily absent: Pre-injury, when a star was present, he acted as a hub, receiving the ball much more often than other players. When [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been over shadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 11:35:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On January 17, 1961, in his farewell address, President Dwight Eisenhower famously warned against the establishment of a &#8220;military-industrial complex,&#8221; but he also warned about a scientific-technological elite: Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades. In this revolution, research has become [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Whatever you do, just don’t do what we’ve always done, because we’ll never compete with the Americans that way</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 11:42:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back when he was a reporter for Sports Illustrated, David Epstein explains (in Inside the Box), a coach named Mark Wood shared a unique “preclude” story from his time working with the Canadian skeleton team: (Skeleton is the Winter Olympics sport in which athletes slide face-first down an icy track.) At the time, every skeleton [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>These little monsters have plagued livestock and humans in tropical and subtropical regions of the Americas for centuries</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:23:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh, good, Polimath quips, screwworms are back: Unlike most flies that lay eggs in dead and rotting organic matter, the Newworld Screwworm lays eggs in the open wounds and mucus membranes of living animals. The maggots then eat the animal (or human!) alive. Its scientific name is cochleomyia hominivorax which literally means “man-eating snail”. These [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>DC Comics became its distributor and limited Atlas to eight newsstand titles each month</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 11:33:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the editor in chief of Atlas Comics, Stan Lee, David Epstein explains (in Inside the Box), led a revenue strategy of cranking out tons of dispensable romance, Westerns, and science fiction: Then in 1957, Atlas’s rival DC Comics became its distributor, and limited Atlas to eight newsstand titles each month. With the high-volume strategy [&#8230;]]]></description>
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