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The museum was established as a place where medical students could study specimens. Shown here is a 3-D image of a male skeleton from a recent exhibition.

The National Museum of Health and Medicine

This Silver Spring, Maryland site scares and educates, with displays of prosthetic eyes, amputated limbs and incomplete skeletons

Pulp wood (but not the kind that may appear in your cheese or bread).

The Wood in Your Food

Screenshot of the Food Desert Locator home page.

New Tool Maps Food Deserts in the U.S.

Approximately 23.5 million Americans are living in food deserts, most of whom live in urban areas

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Ban the Bag: Should Kids Be Forbidden From Bringing Lunch to School?

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I Think I’ll Go Eat Dirt

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Snacks to Fuel a Workout

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Holiday Gift Guide: A Food Book for Everyone On Your List

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Five Ways to Eat Kohlrabi

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A Showcase School Garden in D.C.

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Five Ways to Eat Lima Beans

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Food in the Raw at the U.S. Botanic Garden

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Eating Irish Moss

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A Long Way to Go for Utica Greens

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Confronting Childhood Obesity: Chef Jose Andres Speaks Out

Most of the 9.7 million soldiers who perished in WWI were killed by the conflict's unprecedented firepower. Many survivors experienced acute trauma.

World War I: 100 Years Later

The Shock of War

World War I troops were the first to be diagnosed with shell shock, an injury – by any name – still wreaking havoc

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Inviting Writing: Alchemy in the College Cafeteria

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Five Ways to Eat Okra

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Seitan: The Other Fake Meat

Fluff and Nonsense By Amanda Bensen

Inviting Writing: College Food

Melinda Gates, with caregivers in Rampur Bhuligadha, India, says infant deaths can be halved by 2025.

Melinda French Gates on Saving Lives

The co-chair of the world’s largest philanthropy talks about what can be done to improve global health and poverty

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