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A Royal Shame: Prince Leopold’s Hemophilia and Its Effect on Medical Research

In the late nineteenth century, hemophilia was an incredibly devastating disease, killing people as high in society as Prince Leopold, son of Great Britain’s Queen Victoria. Leopold’s case…

Humans and the Extinction of Megafauna in the Americas

The correlation between human immigration into the Americas, the invention of Clovis spear points and the extinctions of megafauna (large mammals exceeding 44 kg) at the end of…

Corpses, Androids, and The Polar Express: A Social Neuroscience Perspective on the Uncanny Valley

In 1921, K. Capek introduced the world to the term “robot” in his fictional play in which android laborers eventually turn against their makers.  Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and…

What’s In a Fig? The Interactions Between Figs, Fig Wasps, and Fig Wasp Parasitoids

Abstract Many plants provide consistent and predictable fruit rewards to obtain reliable services from seed dispersers. Fig fruit production, however, is unpredictable in time and space. This behavior…

Haloform Disinfectant By-Products in Pool Water

Abstract A wide variety of substances are currently used to disinfect the water in swimming pools, including many containing chlorine and bromine, which can react to form potentially…