Invisible string articles
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String of wife murders led to the stringing up of 'Rattlesnake James'
Greed, incest, murder and rattlesnakes tell the tale of a southern sharecropper turned barber turned murderer, executed in 1942.
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The Invisible President
For more than a week now, the anti-Israel and anti-Semitic protests convulsing university campuses have been the biggest news story in the country. The protests, in many cases abetted by university faculty, have put a national spotlight on the illiberalism and intellectual rot at the heart of American “higher” education and the DEI regime that makes it hum. We’re not in the business of offering political advice to President Joe Biden, but it is hard to miss his absence from the situation. The...
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An invisibility cloak for would-be cancers
One of the immune system’s roles is to detect and kill cells that have acquired cancerous mutations. However, some early-stage cancer cells manage to survive. A new study on colon cancer from MIT and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has identified one reason why: they turn on a gene called SOX17, which renders them essentially invisible…