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Everywhere in the universe, the periodic table has the same basic structure. Even if an alien civili...
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Carbon's eastern neighbor on the table, nitrogen, dresses up diamonds in pinks, yellows, oranges...
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Guinea pigs are practically synonymous with experiments. Lab rats have become the workhorses of mode...
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Medieval alchemists, despite their lust for gold, considered mercury the most potent and poetic subs...
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One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy a...
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Despite the disreputable company it keeps, bismuth is harmless. In fact, it's medicinal: Doctors...
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The price of diamonds can vary greatly depending on size, cut, color, and other factors, including w...
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The body tends to treat elements in the same column of the periodic table as equivalents.
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America was probably Europe's equal scientifically by the end of World War I and certainly surpa...
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The more that I looked at DNA, the more I realized it was nature and nurture. It's how genes and...
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Boron is carbon's neighbor on the periodic table, which means it can do a passable carbon impres...
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Most people, even most doctors, learn that the placenta is a nice, tight seal that prevents anything...
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I didn't mind staying home from school and medicating myself with vanilla ice cream and chocolat...
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Brain surgery couldn't happen without the patient's own active voice to guide the work. The ...
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Genes are like the story, and DNA is the language that the story is written in.
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I was in love with the British 'The Office', so even though I love Steve Carell, when they w...
SAM HUNTINGTON
I always learn something from every actor I've ever worked with. I always pick something from th...
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You get to a place where you do your job, and then you dust your hands off and say, 'Okay, my jo...
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My kid is a year and a half old, and I just want to roll around on the floor with him for a little b...
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In all seriousness, I'm flattered and humbled to have been asked to reprise my role as Luke in t...
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I would be hard-pressed to look back at anything that I have done in my career and not say, 'I w...
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I can tell you Kristen Hager is one of my all time favorite people to work with ever and one of the ...
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I wrote a song several years ago while I was in college called 'Muscadine Wine.' I really di...
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Picking up a guitar brought a lot of balance into my life.
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The most flattering thing I hear is, 'I didn't think I liked country music before I heard yo...
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I realized that I could try to sound like Waylon Jennings, or I could try to be like Waylon Jennings...
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Within the songwriting community, there are these unwritten rules for the way that a song should be ...
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