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Saving the Vision of People with Diabetic Retinopathy

This article is part of “Innovations In: Type 1 Diabetes”, an editorially independent special report that was produced with financial support from Vertex. Sterling Glass had many health problems as a child—swollen feet, night sweats, nausea and vomiting, unquenchable thirst, and fatigue that often left him too exhausted to go to school. The problems didn’t…

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How GLP-1 Medications Are Changing Consumer Behavior

While blockbuster drug innovations have changed health outcomes for decades, we’re now seeing signs that GLP-1 medications like Ozempic and Wegovy may be changing something broader: the consumer economy. Originally developed for diabetes and increasingly prescribed for weight loss, these drugs are not just influencing physical health and body size. They’re also reshaping collective behavior—how…

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bitchy | Virginia Giuffre was trafficked to a ‘former prime minister’ who beat & choked her

The New York Times reviewed Virginia Giuffre’s posthumously published memoir, Nobody’s Girl. They called it “devastating” and extremely sad. Virginia was sexually abused from the age of 7 years old by her father, and then her father “traded” her to a family friend. She was also sexually assaulted by other men before Ghislaine Maxwell even…

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A Human on a Bicycle Is among the Most Efficient Forms of Travel in the Animal Kingdom

Humans aren’t very efficient movers—until you put us on a bicycle, when we become some of the most energy-efficient land travelers in the animal kingdom. For Scientific American’s 180th birthday, we’ve updated a classic graphic comparing different forms of animal locomotion, first published in this magazine in 1973. Travel involves two main expenditures of energy:…

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