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Want to see into the future? We’d all like to, and experts do their best to forecast what’s to come. But, still, even they can get it wrong...like, really wrong. From “the population bomb” to the Y2K scare, Freethink presents an original series about the bad predictions of the future made by some of our brightest minds throughout history. The world is complex and the future, well, it loves to surprise you...
Is vitamin C a total sham?
In the heart of cold and flu season, it's natural to reach for the Vitamin C. But we may want to think twice. While...
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Since the dawn of the industrial revolution, fear of automation has been on the rise. From weaving machines to cars...
In 2006 bees started disappearing. Beekeepers reported to losing up to 90% of their beehives. And no one knew why....
In the heart of cold and flu season, it's natural to reach for the Vitamin C. But we may want to think twice. While...
Much of our shared understanding about drugs and addiction came from a series of studies done in the 1950s and 60s...
To address rising health problems in the 1980s, scientists and policymakers developed the US Food Pyramid to...
Did we narrowly avoid the apocalypse because of some world-saving last minute de-bugging.
