If you can’t imagine the sound of a dog barking or hear your inner voice, you may be suffering from anauralia or anendophasia.
Fussy eating among children is a 20th-century phenomenon, according to author and Michigan State University professor Helen Zoe Veit.
A study published in The Lancet described how endoscopists who rely too much on AI may be losing their skills to identify pre-cancerous polyps when they conduct colonoscopies.
The average adult bladder can hold between 300 mL (about 10 ounces) and 600 mL (about 20 ounces).
Winnie-the-Pooh is named after a bear named Winnipeg viewed at London Zoo by A.A. Milne and his son Christopher Robin. Milne gave the name to his son’s teddy bear – originally named Edward – in his first collection of stories about the character, the 1926 book Winnie-the-Pooh, with illustrations by E.H. Shepard, who based them on his son’s teddy bear Growler.
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This article appears in October 23 • 2026.