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When I was in high school, I was a bad singer. I mean, all my early acting was musical theater, and my first ever show was 'Jesus Christ Superstar.' Everyone's familiar with it. I played priest number 3 and sang so out of tune that it's not even funny.


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SAM KEAN Guinea pigs are practically synonymous with experiments. Lab rats have become the workhorses of mode...
SAM KEAN Medieval alchemists, despite their lust for gold, considered mercury the most potent and poetic subs...
SAM KEAN One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy a...
SAM KEAN Despite the disreputable company it keeps, bismuth is harmless. In fact, it's medicinal: Doctors...
SAM KEAN The price of diamonds can vary greatly depending on size, cut, color, and other factors, including w...
SAM KEAN The body tends to treat elements in the same column of the periodic table as equivalents.
SAM KEAN America was probably Europe's equal scientifically by the end of World War I and certainly surpa...
SAM KEAN The more that I looked at DNA, the more I realized it was nature and nurture. It's how genes and...
SAM KEAN Boron is carbon's neighbor on the periodic table, which means it can do a passable carbon impres...
SAM KEAN Most people, even most doctors, learn that the placenta is a nice, tight seal that prevents anything...
SAM KEAN I didn't mind staying home from school and medicating myself with vanilla ice cream and chocolat...
SAM KEAN Brain surgery couldn't happen without the patient's own active voice to guide the work. The ...
SAM KEAN Genes are like the story, and DNA is the language that the story is written in.
SAM KEAN I was in love with the British 'The Office', so even though I love Steve Carell, when they w...
SAM HUNTINGTON I always learn something from every actor I've ever worked with. I always pick something from th...
SAM HUNTINGTON You get to a place where you do your job, and then you dust your hands off and say, 'Okay, my jo...
SAM HUNTINGTON My kid is a year and a half old, and I just want to roll around on the floor with him for a little b...
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