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That will get you more granular information about your fitness data—including more detailed breakdowns of how it arrived at your stress score.
THE NEW FITBIT KNOWS WHEN YOU’RE STRESSED—AND HOW TO HELP YOU CHILLSTAN HORACZEKAUGUST 26, 2020POPULAR-SCIENCE
Healthcare systems could get overloaded, tooOn top of a breakdown of the testing systems, there’s a serious concern that an influx of people with severe influenza could push healthcare systems over the edge too.
THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC IS ABOUT TO COLLIDE WITH FLU SEASON. HERE’S WHAT TO EXPECT.SARA CHODOSHAUGUST 26, 2020POPULAR-SCIENCE
The randomness of such a process would be able to account for the breakdown of homogeneity and isotropy in the early universe, without having to invoke any observer or measuring device.
SCHRÖDINGER’S CAT WHEN NOBODY IS LOOKING - ISSUE 89: THE DARK SIDEDANIEL SUDARSKYAUGUST 26, 2020NAUTILUS
In our conversation, Topol explained what we can and can’t expect from vaccines, what the communication breakdown over the pandemic has meant, and, surprisingly, why we can look on the bright side.
WE DON’T HAVE TO DESPAIR - ISSUE 88: LOVE & SEXROBERT BAZELLAUGUST 12, 2020NAUTILUS
Smaller DNA segments are assumed to represent older instances of mating across populations than longer segments due to the breakdown of shared segments in later generations.
SOUTH AMERICANS MAY HAVE TRAVELED TO POLYNESIA 800 YEARS AGOBRUCE BOWERJULY 8, 2020SCIENCE NEWS
The partisan breakdown on the board won’t be everything and both Vaus and Anderson seem eager to prove to people on the left that they would collaborate with the lone Democrat on the board now, Supervisor Nathan Fletcher.
POLITICS REPORT: EAST COUNTY GOP RIVALS COURT THE LIBSSCOTT LEWISJUNE 27, 2020VOICE OF SAN DIEGO
Elephants are one of the creatures affected by a breakdown of this gene, the new study finds.
WHY ELEPHANTS AND ARMADILLOS MIGHT EASILY GET DRUNKSUSAN MILIUSJUNE 4, 2020SCIENCE NEWS FOR STUDENTS
That’s why Turner’s team now suspects a several-hundred-year timescale may better predict the likely breakdown rate of most plastics in the oceans.
LEGOS COULD LAST A DISTURBINGLY LONG TIME IN THE OCEANMARIA TEMMINGAPRIL 17, 2020SCIENCE NEWS FOR STUDENTS
Assuredly, this was an occasion when the sacrifice of a few minutes might avoid the grave risk of a breakdown after daybreak.
THE RED YEARLOUIS TRACY
A coward by nature, he had been on the verge of a nervous breakdown before the trial, thinking of what might happen.
THE HOMESTEADEROSCAR MICHEAUX
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OCTOBER 26, 1985
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WORDS RELATED TO BREAKDOWN

  • breakdown
  • burnout
  • clinical depression
  • collapse
  • derangement
  • freak out
  • mental illness
  • nervous breakdown
  • nervous exhaustion
  • nervous prostration
  • neurosis
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