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“She has also highlighted a particularly sticky and frequently gendered issue felt acutely by those of us with chronic illness who can struggle for years to get the medical profession to even acknowledge something is amiss.”How breast size affects how women exercise. By Gretchen Reynolds in The New York Times.
A study found that the bigger a woman’s breasts are, the lower her participation was in physical exercise, especially if it was vigorous.The twins that are neither identical nor fraternal. By Sarah Zhang in The Atlantic.
A cool story that introduced me to a new favorite word: “sesquizygotic twins.”Neuroscience Readies for a Showdown Over Consciousness Ideas. By Ryan Garcia in Quanta.
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