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Life ends at 40? Mythbusting ideas of age in the past

This snack was first posted on the Scisnack website in June 2023. There are many curious misconceptions about life in the past, but a particularly common one is the idea that people just didn’t live very long. With the relatively recent improvements to the quality of life and reduction in infant mortality thanks to modern […]

Eat out to help out or eat in to stay alive: how have modern and historical pandemics changed our eating habits?

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This snack was first posted on the Scisnack website in April 2022. As a person living in England, the COVID-19 lockdowns of 2020-21 meant a lot of comfort eating and not a lot of movement – two years later and I am still working to reverse the effects this has had on my health and

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