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News, discoveries and ... fun

News, discoveries and ... fun.

In the 1970s, a cluster of cases of unexplained severe joint pain and swelling was breaking out in a small three-township area in Connecticut, as a 1976 New York Times article detailed. Fortunately, the mysterious affliction soon came to the attention of a team of Yale University medical…

If you don't like those stinky bug sprays with DEET, but you also don't like being a mosquito buffet, here's a simple, low-tech, no-chemical way to deter those little suckers from your backyard: An electric fan.