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A Lewis Carroll Scrapbook
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a lecturer in mathematics at the University of Oxford, is better known as Lewis Carroll, author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and other works. A scrapbook kept by Dodgson is now available online, via the Library of Congress. It contains a variety of items, including newspaper clippings, illustrations, and photographs. The Web […]
- Tech
Tiny Timepiece: Atomic clock could fit almost anywhere
Physicists have shrunk the high-tech heart of an atomic clock to the size of a rice grain.
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Your readers should be aware that the increased fatal cancer risk posed by annual whole-body CT scans, although still quite high, is in fact almost five times lower than that stated in this article, which says that annual scans from age 45 to 75 would increase a person’s lifetime risk of dying from cancer by […]
- Health & Medicine
Scanning Risk: Whole-body CT exams may increase cancer
Adults who routinely get whole-body CT scans without medical cause are exposing themselves to doses of radiation that may increase their risk of dying from cancer.
