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Humans

Letters from the September 30, 2006, issue of Science News

Not a pretty picture “Deadly Disorder: Imagined-ugliness illness yields high suicide rate” (SN: 7/22/06, p. 52) raises some questions. What about people who are physically unattractive—those whom a majority of the society considers ugly? I suspect that many people treated for body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) are unattractive by that definition. The psychiatric profession tends to […]

Math

Euler’s Bridges

A well-known puzzle about bridges led to a pioneering paper in topology.

Humans

From the September 19, 1936, issue

A nebula photographed, thin films, and cancer as uncontrolled cell growth.

Earth

Tox Town

This Web site from the U.S.