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Fish odor syndrome – A rare metabolic condition that makes sweat smell like fish

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Disease name: Trimethylaminuria (TMAU), also known as "fish odor syndrome"Affected populations: TMAU is a rare metabolic...
Disease name: Trimethylaminuria (TMAU), also known as "fish odor syndrome"Affected populations: TMAU is a rare metabolic condition that causes a person to smell like rotten fish. The condition is more common in women than in men, and there's evidence that female sex hormones, such as progesterone, can exacerbate pat...
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How Each Pillar of the First Amendment Is Under Attack

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“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;...
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” -U.S. Constitution, First Amendment. Image...
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Homeownership is 'an investment,' lawmaker says. Fewer adults are benefitting

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Since 1980, median home prices have increased much faster than median household incomes, according to the...
Since 1980, median home prices have increased much faster than median household incomes, according to the Urban Institute. For some, that is putting home ownership out of reach.FILE PHOTO: An "Open House" sign outside of a home in Washington, DC, US, on Sunday, Nov. 19, 2023. Nathan Howard | Bloomberg | Getty Images...

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Installing air filters in classrooms has surprisingly large educational benefits

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An emergency situation that turned out to be mostly a false alarm led a lot of...
An emergency situation that turned out to be mostly a false alarm led a lot of schools in Los Angeles to install air filters, and something strange happened: Test scores went up. By a lot. And the gains were sustained in the subsequent year rather than fading away.That’s what NYU’s Michael Gilraine finds in a new wo...
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Digital cuneiforms: Updated tool expands access to ancient Hittite texts

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Ambermoon Advanced

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Oka.wiki

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We are a non-profit organization dedicated to improving Wikipedia and other open platforms. We do so...
We are a non-profit organization dedicated to improving Wikipedia and other open platforms. We do so by providing monthly stipends to full-time contributors and translators. We pragmatically prioritize work that generates the most impact. To maximize returns on our donors’ funds and decrease systematic bias, we hire...
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Executive order phases out U.S. Treasury paper checks

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BreezeWiki makes wiki pages on Fandom readable

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It removes ads, videos, and suggested content, leaving you with a clean page that doesn't slow...
It removes ads, videos, and suggested content, leaving you with a clean page that doesn't slow down your device or use up your data.To use BreezeWiki, just replace "fandom.com" with "breezewiki.com", and you'll instantly be teleported to a better world.If you'd like to be automatically sent to BreezeWiki every time ...
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Greek Language Question

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You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in German. (December...
You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in German. (December 2024) Click [show] for important translation instructions. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and co...
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Can Style Be Timeless?

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Luigi Mangione-Inspired Ballot Initiative Targets Health Insurance Denials

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A proposed California ballot initiative—informally named after Luigi Mangione, the alleged assassin of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian...
A proposed California ballot initiative—informally named after Luigi Mangione, the alleged assassin of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson—aims to bar insurers from delaying or denying doctor-recommended procedures or medications.The filer, retired attorney Paul Eisner, told Newsweek in a phone call on Sunday that h...

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Xfinity XB3 hardware mod: Disable WiFi and save 2 watts

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The surprisingly simple reason kids have imaginary friends

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George Orwell and me: Richard Blair on life with his extraordinary father

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Richard Blair didn’t have the easiest start in life. At three weeks old, he was adopted....
Richard Blair didn’t have the easiest start in life. At three weeks old, he was adopted. Nine months later, his adoptive mother, Eileen, died at 39, after an allergic reaction to the anaesthetic she was given for a hysterectomy. Family and friends expected Blair’s father, Eric, to un-adopt him. Fortunately, Eric, be...
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Xiaofeng Wang

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The Dingo's Fate

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Few manmade barriers rival the Great Wall of China in scope, ambition or sheer mythical presence....
Few manmade barriers rival the Great Wall of China in scope, ambition or sheer mythical presence. So large does the wall loom in the public consciousness that it is often claimed to be visible from space, though in fact it is not. The assertion feels plausible, even intuitive, because of the sheer scale involved: a ...
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FBI searches two homes belonging to IU Luddy professor and library analyst

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The FBI searched homes in Bloomington and Carmel belonging to an IU professor and an IU...
The FBI searched homes in Bloomington and Carmel belonging to an IU professor and an IU Libraries analyst Friday. The agency declined to comment on the nature of the search. An IU spokesperson did not say whether the professor, Xiaofeng Wang at the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering professor, w...
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Exorbitant Privilege

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Economic gain by reserve currency nation This article may be confusing or unclear to readers. Please...
Economic gain by reserve currency nation This article may be confusing or unclear to readers. Please help clarify the article. There might be a discussion about this on the talk page. (November 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this message) The term exorbitant privilege (privilège exorbitant in French) refers to ...
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One in five Americans want their state to join Canada

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One in five Americans want their state to join Canada, a new poll has revealed. This...
One in five Americans want their state to join Canada, a new poll has revealed. This comes amid US President Donald Trump's continuous warning to make Canada America's 51st state. The shocking poll showed that only nine per cent of Canadians believe it is likely that Canada will become the 51st US state. "By contras...

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Show HN: Chip-8 emulator written in JavaScript

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The Death of Software Engineering by a Thousand Prompts

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In the New Beijing

lrb.co.uk

My generation has seen four paramount leaders: Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao and now Xi...
My generation has seen four paramount leaders: Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao and now Xi Jinping. Deng, the only one not to serve as general secretary of the Party Central Committee, initiated the market economy reforms of the 1980s and established Shenzhen’s Special Economic Zone. Jiang accelerated China’s ...
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Fort Worth – Now 10th largest US city

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City in Texas, United States "Fort Worth" redirects here. For other uses, see Fort Worth (disambiguation)....
City in Texas, United States "Fort Worth" redirects here. For other uses, see Fort Worth (disambiguation). City in Texas, United States Fort Worth is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Tarrant County, covering nearly 350 square miles (910 km2) into Denton, Johnson, Parker, and Wise counties. Fort Wort...
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