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The Science of Heartbreak and How Music Heals

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Even understanding the chemical changes the body experiences when gripped by heartbreak doesn't make it any easier to work through the hurt. But knowing the science of the mind can give you a leg up when it comes to healing. In this post, Christie Wilcox backs up what we all seemed to instinctively know as teens: listening to music and writing it out (no matter how bad the poetry) diffuses the pain of loss and time heals all wounds of the heart.  Read more >

Are You Wasting Money? Four Myths About Organic Food

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People believe a lot of things that we have little to no evidence for, like that vikings wore horned helmets or that you can see the Great Wall of China from space. Christie Wilcox, a blogger at Scientific American, loves to bust these myths. In this piece, she takes on conventionally believed untruths about organic food.  Read more >

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Christie Wilcox
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October 2011
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I'm a freelance science writer and PhD student in Cell and Molecular Biology at the University of Hawaii. I blog for Scientific American's blog network at Science Sushi: real science, served raw.

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