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Even two years ago, we had a very real, very tangible anxiety related to a crisis with spectacularly disastrous implications. Global warming, it seemed, was threatening us with tornadoes and hurricanes, tidal waves, desertification, snowstorms and heat waves. Before that we had terrorism, Y2K and the great nuclear fears of the Cold War. Our current [...]

Airborne disease season is upon us, so put on your SARS mask and don’t lick any subway poles. I’m pretty sure they cured Bird Flu, but just in case, peruse these disorders and ailments you can’t catch from kissing or anywhere else:
Premature Aging (as seen in Jack): Robin Williams’s titular character was born with a [...]