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Spiders Look Scarier to People Scared of Spiders; A Case for Early Mammograms

Reuters

Discovered: Science's cruel joke on arachnophobes, a case for early mammograms, man will not go extinct, surgeons make bad health decisions. 

By Eric Randall

Dec 9, 2011

Diagnosed for Breast Cancer on Twitter

Boing Boing writer Xeni Jardin, whose live-tweeting of a routine mammogram ended tragically with a breast cancer diagnosis, has written a long and moving account of that doctor's visit.

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