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How Cancer Became Cancer and What Its Future Holds: A Pulitzer-Winning Biography of the Dreaded Disease
How Cancer Became Cancer and What Its Future Holds: A Pulitzer-Winning Biography of the Dreaded Disease

A comprehensive and eloquent scientific and sociocultural history of the ubiquitous disease wins the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction.

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Bill Gates on Vaccines: An RSA Animation
Bill Gates on Vaccines: An RSA Animation

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PICKED: Moleskine Passions Wellness Journal
PICKED: Moleskine Passions Wellness Journal

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Hans Rosling for BBC: 200 Countries Over 200 Years in 4 Minutes
Hans Rosling for BBC: 200 Countries Over 200 Years in 4 Minutes

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Marvelous Movember
Marvelous Movember

What Frida Kahlo has to do with Lance Armstrong and neo-hippie jewelry.

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TED 2011: The Rediscovery of Wonder, Day 3
TED 2011: The Rediscovery of Wonder, Day 3

Embracing chaos, 57 things Google knows about you, and how to 3D-print a kidney.

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The Best Apps of 2010
The Best Apps of 2010

Social magazines, Victorian tablets, and what 100-year-old educational traditions have to do with analog photography.

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2010’s Best Long Reads: Science & Technology
2010’s Best Long Reads: Science & Technology

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Sounds of HIV: Music Made of AIDS Virus Nucleotides
Sounds of HIV: Music Made of AIDS Virus Nucleotides

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RxArt: Healing Children Through Contemporary Art
RxArt: Healing Children Through Contemporary Art

What blood transfusions have to do with modern art and coloring between the lines.

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