The lives of our ancestors were not always as simple and easy-going as we sometimes imagine. In the late nineteenth century, ice cream, a popular but poorly understood dessert, brought illness and death to America’s fairs and festivals. In Victorian America, ice cream became an increasingly popular dessert. As historian Edward Geist writes, it was also …
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Police Used a Baby’s DNA To Investigate Its Father For a Crime
If you were born in the United States within the last 50 or so years, chances are good that one of the first things you did as a baby was give a DNA sample to the government. By the 1970s, states had established newborn screening programs, in which a nurse takes a few drops of …
Police Used a Baby’s DNA To Investigate Its Father For a Crime
If you were born in the United States within the last 50 or so years, chances are good that one of the first things you did as a baby was give a DNA sample to the government. By the 1970s, states had established newborn screening programs, in which a nurse takes a few drops of …