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The composer Ludwig van Beethoven’s health issues throughout his life are well documented, with many conjectures on the cause of his death from liver and kidney disease. The presence of high hair lead concentration in Beethoven led to speculation by Reiter, who claimed that it caused the composer’s ailments, including his...

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Abstract The Neolithic revolution saw the independent development of agriculture among at least seven unconnected hunter-gatherer populations. I propose that the rapid spread of agricultural techniques resulted from increased climatic seasonality causing hunter-gatherers to adopt a sedentary lifestyle and store food for the...

Using life on Earth as our guide we identified purple bacteria as biota that could dominate a wide range of environments on exoplanets....

This research studies how the idea of "child protection" has been historically misused as a tool for discriminating against gay men, portraying them as a danger to children. Over time, this argument evolved into subtler claims as it became less effective and faced greater rejection from the general public due to increased public...

AbstractBackground. High-risk human papillomavirus causes cervical cancer. Vaccines have been developed that significantly reduce the incidence of preinvasive a

A group of international scientists warn that the effects of global warming are “progressively more severe, and possibilities such as a worldwide societal breakdown are feasible and dangerously underexplored.”...

Similarly to how there were both good Christians and extremely sinful Christians in relation to the Shoah, there were both good Muslims and deeply sinful Muslims with regard to it as well. It was common (maybe less so now) for Islamophobes to emphasize the anti‐Jewish Muslims, for example the 13th Waffen Mountain Division of...