Kristen French

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    When Bacteria Are Beautiful

    Making art out of an invisible world that shapes human health and disease.

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    5 Myths About Love and Desire

    Love languages aren’t a thing, and sex every day is probably overdoing it.

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    Why We Reject New Ideas

    What Shark Tank pitches, Sundance films, and unusual sandwiches show us about our choices.

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    Talk About the Passion

    Scientists on the art that has inspired them. Artists on the science that has inspired them.

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    Pocket Forests Are Coming to Town

    Can tiny forests deliver on big environmental problems?

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    The Unbelievable Untangling Worms

    Solving nature’s greatest Gordian knot.

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    Bummer: Popular Happiness Strategies Are a Bust

    A new analysis shows the most widely cited happiness studies relied on poor research methods.

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    How a Dream Engineer Defeats Nightmares

    We can rewrite the script on bad dreams.

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    Requiem for the Foghorn

    Across the US and around the world, foghorns have disappeared from the coastal landscape.

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    The Dark Side of Fungi

    They’re not all magical and entangled. These fungi will kill you.