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A reporter cornered Marie Curie in 1904 and asked whether radium might cure disease. She refused to guess. Nothing had been demonstrated, she said, and she would not pretend otherwise. Her caution vanished the moment marketers got hold of her discovery. Drugstores sold radium water by crate. Chocolate came laced with it. A Pittsburgh steel…

The plank is one of the simplest exercises you can do, yet it remains one of the most misunderstood. Walk into any gym and you will eventually hear someone bragging about holding a plank for five or even ten minutes. It sounds impressive, but does it actually mean they have a strong core? The answer…