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Aug 2020
13m 52s

How Feeling Sick Is Colored by Culture, ...

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Learn about how culture plays a role in feeling sick; that time scientists measured all the light in the known universe; and what Jurassic Park got wrong about the Dilophosaurus, that venomous dinosaur with the frilly collar.

Culture plays a role in feeling sick by Kelsey Donk

Scientists Measured All the Light Ever Produced in the Universe by Ashley Hamer

Remember the venomous dino with the frilly collar from Jurassic Park? Here's what it was really like by Grant Currin

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