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10 articles
Nursing
Most of what a newborn needs in its first hour costs nothing. Several of the things done instead cause harm.
Cutting the cord a minute later, drying and leaving the baby on the mother's chest, and not bathing it — the interventions with the best evidence behind them are mostly free, and several long-standing customs actively work against them.
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Agriculture
Putting a tomato in the fridge does something to it that taking it out again will not undo
A tomato that tastes of nothing is usually not a bad variety. It is a fruit that was picked early, chilled below a threshold it cannot recover from, and warmed up again. Here is the post-harvest biology behind it.
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Life Sciences
The fogging van clears your lane for an hour. What is breeding on your balcony refills it by morning.
Dengue season arrives and so does the fogging machine, which is the most visible and least effective part of mosquito control. Here is what the insect is actually doing, why insecticides are losing, and which interventions the evidence supports.
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Architecture
Your city does not flood because it rained more. It floods because the water has nowhere left to go.
The same rainfall that a city absorbed thirty years ago now puts it under water. Very little of that is about the sky. Here is the hydrology of urban flooding — runoff, design storms, lost wetlands — and why building bigger drains often makes it worse.
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Medical Sciences
India's antivenom is made against four snakes. There are far more than four snakes.
Snakebite kills around 58,000 people a year in India, more than anywhere else on earth. The treatment exists and is often free — and it still fails, for reasons that start with how antivenom is manufactured.
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Environmental Science
Boiling concentrates fluoride rather than removing it. What actually takes it out is a metal oxide surface
Fluoride and arsenic in Indian groundwater pass straight through boiling, chlorination and every candle filter, because they are dissolved ions rather than particles or microbes. Here is what removes them, why arsenic must be oxidised first, and where 'nano' genuinely helps rather than merely appearing on the box.
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Life Sciences
A fungus is far more like you than a bacterium is. That is why there are almost no antifungal drugs
Medicine has dozens of antibacterial drug classes and essentially four antifungal ones. The reason is biological: fungal cells are built like ours. Here is what that costs us, and why farm fungicides are blunting a hospital drug.
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Environmental Science
Your phone says AQI 180 and the government board says 300. Both can be right.
The AQI is not a measurement. It is a formula applied to measurements, and knowing how the formula works explains why two apps disagree, why the number lags a bad evening by hours, and why 'satisfactory' is not the same as clean.
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Nursing
Why the emergency room saw the person who came in after you
An emergency department is the one queue in the world where arriving first earns you nothing. Here is how triage decides the order, what the nurse at the desk is actually measuring, and what to say so you are not sorted wrong.
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Parenting & Technology
Your child is not addicted to the phone. They are addicted to autoplay.
Most screen-time advice assumes a parent is free to supervise. In a nuclear family, nobody is. Here is a setup that removes the recommendation algorithm instead of the device — including an age-wise starter whitelist of channels.
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