paradox

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So here’s a modern paradox: Many who rebel against the status quo don’t realize it when they become the status quo.

From The Wall Street Journal

With these new compounds, the researchers were finally able to explain a long-standing paradox surrounding vitamin A and cancer.

From Science Daily

These results could help explain the "survival-health paradox" seen in post-menopausal women, who often live longer than men but experience higher levels of frailty and chronic illness.

From Science Daily

This is the paradox of dancing in the age of short-form video: Even as slick choreographed routines proliferate on TikTok and Instagram and YouTube, spawning mimics and viral trends, more concertgoers are standing still.

From The Wall Street Journal

AI seems to have found itself in a precarious paradox thus far: the more capable the tools become, the more intense the tsunami of slop.

From MarketWatch