Early 1990s: Life felt real

Millennials, 90s nostalgia, life before the internet, pre-social media freedom, shared culture, analog life, millennials vs modern world. In this walk-and-talk, Matt Ross explains why millennials are nostalgic for the 90s—and why it’s not about pop culture, but freedom, community, and life before the system took over. (Matt Ross/YT) The Real Reason Millennials Miss The

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A century of documented failures of smallpox vaccination

In 1796, Edward Jenner tested a popular belief: that cowpox protected against smallpox. He obtained cowpox material from a milkmaid and used it to inoculate an eight-year-old boy named James Phipps, whom he then deliberately exposed to smallpox. Because the boy did not fall ill, Jenner concluded that the procedure—cowpoxing, later given the more scientific-sounding

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