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| The best articles from ncbi.nlm.nih.gov, according to Hacker News. |
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| 2012 | | The effect of meditation on brain structure (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 472 points | 5 years ago with 242 comments |
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| 2014 | | Fasting leads to stress resistance, self-renewal, and regeneration (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 359 points | 7 years ago with 233 comments |
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| 2009 | | Life Is a Ponzi Scheme (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 330 points | 5 years ago with 293 comments |
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| 2010 | | Adults with ADHD show decreased function in brain dopamine reward pathway (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 324 points | 4 years ago with 330 comments |
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| 2011 | | Sickness absence associated with shared and open-plan offices (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 317 points | 7 years ago with 194 comments |
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| 2015 | | Mental illness, mass shootings, and the politics of American firearms (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 280 points | 2 years ago with 1644 comments |
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| 2011 | | Magnesium and major depression (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 256 points | 5 years ago with 228 comments |
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| 2017 | | The Big Vitamin D Mistake (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 256 points | 4 years ago with 182 comments |
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| 2001 | | Farts can cause infection if the emitter is naked, but not if clothed (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 249 points | 7 years ago with 57 comments |
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| 2012 | | Fatigue Is a Brain-Derived Emotion that Regulates to Ensure Protection (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 247 points | 8 years ago with 98 comments |
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| 2018 | | Ultraviolet Irradiation of Blood: “The Cure That Time Forgot”? (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 224 points | 4 years ago with 506 comments |
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| 2013 | | The 1% of the population accountable for 63 % of all violent crime convictions (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 221 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 6 comments |
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| 2006 | | Eating less and more than needed on alternate days prolongs life (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 220 points | 7 years ago with 123 comments |
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| 2015 | | Computer game play reduces intrusive memories of experimental trauma (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 213 points | 3 years ago with 98 comments |
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| 1999 | | Parachuting for Charity: A 5-year audit (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 210 points | 4 years ago with 136 comments |
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| 2013 | | The aging mind: neuroplasticity in response to cognitive training (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 204 points | 6 years ago with 117 comments |
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| 2009 | | Consciousness and Anaesthesia (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 197 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 173 comments |
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| 2002 | | “The effects of lifelong exposure to a perverse contingency” (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 197 points | 6 years ago with 77 comments |
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| 2007 | | How to increase serotonin in the human brain without drugs (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 192 points | 5 years ago with 100 comments |
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| 2013 | | The Hallmarks of Aging (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 175 points | 5 years ago with 38 comments |
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| 2013 | | Stainless steel leaches nickel and chromium into foods during cooking (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 174 points | 2 years ago with 297 comments |
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| 2010 | | Impact of breast milk on IQ, brain size and white matter development (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 169 points | 7 years ago with 156 comments |
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| 2012 | | Storing Drinking-Water in Copper Pots Kills Contaminating Bacteria (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 160 points | 7 years ago with 136 comments |
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| 2016 | | Exercise as a treatment for depression: a meta-analysis (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 156 points | 5 years ago with 123 comments |
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| 2016 | | Experimental evidence for compositional syntax in bird calls (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 143 points | 4 years ago with 40 comments |
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| 2018 | | Road dust and its effect on human health: a literature review (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 135 points | 2 years ago with 149 comments |
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| 2019 | | A mystery of the ketogenic diet: benevolent pseudo-diabetes in mice (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 134 points | 2 years ago with 136 comments |
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| 1973 | | Outbreak of common colds at Antarctic base after 17 weeks of isolation (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 133 points | 4 years ago with 76 comments |
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| 2008 | | Brain foods: the effects of nutrients on brain function (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 132 points | 7 years ago with 27 comments |
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| 2005 | | Most Published Research Findings Are False (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 131 points | 5 years ago with 39 comments |
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| 2000 | | Instinctive sleeping and resting postures: an anthropological study (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 128 points | 2 years ago with 46 comments |
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| 2011 | | DNA Is a Fractal Antenna in Electromagnetic Fields (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 125 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 95 comments |
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| 2018 | | Saffron as an Antidepressant (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 122 points | 3 years ago with 104 comments |
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| 2005 | | Cannabinoids promote neuron growth and have antidepressant-like effects (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 120 points | 6 years ago with 50 comments |
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| 2019 | | Flight characteristics of anomalous unidentified aerial vehicles (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 118 points | 2 years ago with 116 comments |
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| 2009 | | How the Mid-Victorians Worked, Ate and Died (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 115 points | 7 years ago with 75 comments |
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| 2018 | | Modeling the effectiveness of respiratory masks in reducing influenza (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 115 points | 4 years ago with 98 comments |
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| 2013 | | Gut Feelings: Bacteria and the Brain (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 115 points | 8 years ago with 54 comments |
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| 2016 | | Mortality patterns for patients hospitalized during cardiology meetings (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 113 points | 1 year ago with 65 comments |
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| 2018 | | Hacking CD/DVD/Blu-ray for Biosensing (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 112 points | 2 years ago with 14 comments |
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| 2015 | | Syringe injectable electronics (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 106 points | 7 years ago with 24 comments |
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| 2003 | | Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma: systematic review (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 103 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 24 comments |
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| 2002 | | Increased risk of traffic accidents in subjects with latent toxoplasmosis (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 101 points | 3 years ago with 61 comments |
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| 2017 | | Scientific integrity in a climate of perverse incentives and competition (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 100 points | 2 years ago with 18 comments |
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| 2006 | | Rapid recovery from major depression using magnesium treatment (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 98 points | 8 years ago with 79 comments |
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| 2016 | | On Having No Head: Cognition Throughout Biological Systems (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 98 points | 5 years ago with 10 comments |
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| 2000 | | Eating a manchineel “beach apple” (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 98 points | 8 years ago with 72 comments |
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| 2009 | | A New Form of Social Withdrawal in Japan: A Review of ‘Hikikomori’ (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 94 points | 7 years ago with 69 comments |
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| 2016 | | Too good to be true: when overwhelming evidence fails to convince (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 89 points | 2 years ago with 73 comments |
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| 2017 | | Medical response to a vinyl chloride release from a train derailment (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 89 points | 1 year ago with 39 comments |
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