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October 27, 2026
[Second place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest non fiction category.] Every evening on the medicine service, patients are handed...
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[Originally published in Synapse on October 25, 2012.] A hot topic in the immunology world these days is the hygiene...
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I like butterflies and butterflies like salt. In the Amazon Rainforest the butterflies land on me desperate for sodium when...
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[Originally published in Synapse on October 22, 1981.] Nearly a year after the conservative Heritage Foundation called for a renewed...
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