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“Everyone knows” that Prohibition failed because Americans did not stop drinking following ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment in 1919. Historians have shown, however, that National Prohibition was no fluke. Thinking of Prohibition as a public health innovation offers a a different perspective.

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University of California Television provides informational, educational, and enrichment television programming to the public and draws upon the vast intellectual, scientific, and creative talents of the University of California.

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Amateur philosopher and an aspiring evolutionary biologist

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Modeling the flight of a bat (click to enlarge) Dave Willis et. al., Brown University and MIT

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The other day, I was reading a post by Ethan Siegel on his excellent blog, Starts With a Bang, about whether it makes sense to consider the universe to be a giant brain.  (The short answer is no, b…

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Antibiotic resistance is the ability of a microorganism to withstand the effects of an antibiotic. It is a specific type of drug resistance. Antibiotic resistance evolves naturally via natural selection through random mutation, but it could also be engineered by applying an evolutionary stress on a population. Once such a gene is generated, bacteria can then transfer the genetic information in a horizontal fashion (between individuals) by plasmid exchange. If a bacterium carries several resistance genes, it is called multiresistant or, informally, a superbug.

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