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A Filipino rice farmer’s one-minute seizure led doctors to MRI-confirmed brain worm eggs from S. japonicum, detailed in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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From Fady Joudah’s genocide elegy to a forgotten 1940 Fitzgerald rival, the week of Sept. 21–25, 2026 in books was dense, strange, and necessary.
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Colson Whitehead’s Cool Machine leads with 14 raves. Claire Vaye Watkins, Keith Ridgway, and two nonfiction titles round out a strong week.
Emily Eakin’s new book recovers the human lives behind French theory’s forbidding reputation, reviewed in The New Yorker August 2026.
LDL cholesterol can stay elevated for years without symptoms. Here’s what the number means, what drives it up, and how to lower it.
Orcas in the Gulf of California were filmed ramming sunfish until they exploded, a behavior published in Frontiers in Ethology and possibly linked to social learning.