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Health Watch: What's going around?
We're hitting that time of year where it seems like almost everyone's either coughing, sneezing or blowing their nose. David Schuman looks at the cold and flu season, and why the worst might still be to come.
Some popular family cars are more likely to pose a deadly risk to pedestrians
According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, vehicles with high front ends like tall SUVs and pickup trucks are more likely to kill pedestrians they hit, but models of medium front-end height also pose an increased threat if they feature a flatter nose in the front.
Computers Are Learning to Smell
You know the smell of warm, buttered popcorn. A crisp autumn day. The pungent, somewhat sweet scent that precedes rain. But could you begin to describe these aromas in detail? Or compare them? Your nose has some 400 olfactory receptors that do the work of translating the world’s estimated 40 billion odorous molecules into an even higher number of distinct scents your brain can understand.