The Trump Justice Department’s indictment of former FBI Director James Comey has been received with widespread incredulity, both because of the shady circumstances around its filing and the extraordinary weakness of the case. Yet Lindsay Halligan, the US attorney who brought that indictment, seems unbothered. Indeed, she very quickly moved on to the next task at hand: getting New York …
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March 16, 2020. That day is in my diary as the day I started to hear buzzing in my ears. And that buzzing has never gone away. Having spent the previous nine years as an audiologist treating people with this problem, I knew instantly what it was – tinnitus, the perception of sounds such as ringing, buzzing or hissing in …
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Sign up for the Starts With a Bang newsletter Travel the universe with Dr. Ethan Siegel as he answers the biggest questions of all. There’s an old saying that everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but not their own facts. The idea behind this sentiment is that we might disagree on the importance we assign to various aspects of …
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A person in Arizona has died from the plague, local health officials reported on Friday. This marks the first such death in this region in 18 years. But it’s a stark reminder that this historic disease, though rare nowadays, is not just a disease of the past. So what actually is “plague”? And is it any cause for concern in …
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