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How Playing Tetris Tames The Trauma Of A Car Crash

Researchers were able to dial down painful recollections of a car crash by having people play the video game Tetris while in the emergency room. The technique makes use of the malleability of memory.

Andris Roder (left) and Adam Finding, cooks at the Kisuzem restaurant in Budapest, prepare a traditional Eritrean meal of injera bread, chickpea paste and meat stew. Their restaurant served up Eritrean food all week for a food festival in solidarity with migrants and refugees streaming into Hungary.

Budapest Foodies Hope Cuisine Can Help Heal Anti-Migrant Prejudice

Forget the goulash. Budapest's restaurants have been featuring refugee cuisine — think Syrian sweets, Afghan pies and Eritrean flatbread. It's a festival to foster understanding through food.

Demonstrators in Edinburgh outside the Scottish Parliament which was discussing the implications for Scotland of the U.K. vote last month to leave the European Union.

Ripple Effects: Will The Brexit Vote Lead To The Breakup Of The U.K.?

Scotland voted strongly to stay in the European Union, while England and Wales led the successful campaign to exit. Now, some Scots want to rerun their 2014 referendum on independence from Britain.

A job reviewing drug applications at the Food and Drug Administration can be the springboard for a career in industry.

A Look At How The Revolving Door Spins From FDA To Industry

About 27 percent of Food and Drug Administration reviewers who approved hematology-oncology drugs from 2001 through 2010 left to work for the industry they previously regulated, an analysis found.

A Look At How The Revolving Door Spins From FDA To Industry

About 27 percent of Food and Drug Administration reviewers who approved hematology-oncology drugs from 2001 through 2010 left to work for the industry they previously regulated, an analysis found.

A Skeptic Fact-Checks Yoga's Health Claims And Goes With The Om

Yoga has been promoted as the cure for many ills, from diabetes to insomnia. Scientific proof is mixed. But this skeptic says if yoga makes climbing the stairs hurt less, that's good enough.

U.K. Independence Party leader Nigel Farage says Britain should leave the European Union. Key themes in his campaign, including sharp criticism of the country's immigration policies, are similar to Donald Trump's positions in the U.S. presidential race.

Britain's 'Brexit' Vote Has Echoes Of The U.S. Presidential Race

With its anti-immigrant rhetoric and talk of unfair trade, the pro-Brexit campaign shares themes with Donald Trump's presidential run in the U.S.

Women strike a pose during an International Women's Day march last year in Rio de Janeiro.

How Not To Celebrate #InternationalWomensDay

A Mumbai eatery is giving discounts to women who wear very high heels. Cops in a Russian city are pulling over female drivers to hand them roses.

A fire broke out at the Pacific Beach AleHouse on Feb. 16, 2015.

Fire Causes Evacuations At Popular Pacific Beach Restaurant

A fire at the Pacific Beach AleHouse was visible from Ocean Beach to La Jolla on Monday.

Joshua Johnson is "cocreator and host of the provocative nationwide public radio series, Truth Be Told, which explored race in America," member station WAMU wrote in a press release. He will be the host of 1A, the new show taking over the time slot currently held by The Diane Rehm Show.

As Diane Rehm Retires, WAMU Launching Midday Show Called '1A'

Host Joshua Johnson will take the helm at a show named for the First Amendment. Member station WAMU says the live show, distributed by NPR, will "act as a national mirror."

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