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Star Trek: Discovery’s Final End Is a Work in Progress
What a long road it’s been for Star Trek: Discovery, getting from there to here. Along that road it’s certainly had its ups and downs, but for all its faults, it’s been hard to deny in this last season that the series is assured in what its ultimate message was always going to be. So…
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Star Trek: Discovery Preaches Connection as It Drives Its Biggest Relationship Apart
Star Trek: Discovery’s fourth season, much like the seasons that came before it, has put a lot of emphasis on the idea that perhaps the most important ideal any of its heroes, Federation or otherwise, could hold is a sense of unity and communal understanding. As it heads into a surprise mid-season hiatus this week,…
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Scientists See Leprosy in Wild Chimpanzees for the First Time
An ancient disease in humans seems to have jumped the species barrier to one of our closest primate cousins. On Wednesday, researchers detailed finding cases of leprosy among two separate groups of chimpanzees in West Africa — the first ever documented among wild chimps. The origin of these outbreaks is unknown, but it’s thought that…