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Kimberly Rae Miller's family had a secret: her dad was a hoarder. But when she begins digging into the research on hoarding, she finds it's not nearly as simple to fix as she'd hoped.
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Sara Peters has epilepsy, but no drugs seem to help. So she agrees to be hooked up to a machine at the hospital for days, in hopes of inducing the one thing she and her husband, Peter Aguero, dread the most: a seizure. Recorded at TEDMED 2013. Video: tedmed.com/talks/show?id=189377
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Science writer Alex Brown's philosophical education becomes very practical when he is diagnosed with meningitis.
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Three years after a mysterious illness nearly drove her insane and took her life, Susannah Cahalan visits a patient with the same rare, dangerous condition.
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Elna Baker's grade school reputation faces it's greatest threat: her engineer father's enthusiasm for homework.
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A physicist decides that the best way to make progress on his robotics project is to go to Namibia to study termites.
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