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It wasn’t until 1973 that the American Psychiatric Association voted to remove homosexuality as a mental disorder. The recency of that decision still affects the LGBT community today.
Coloring books for adults are an intriguing new hobby, breaking into the mainstream like the young-adult fiction boom before them.
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How much income is too much? The former Minnesota governor rallies for the living wage and against the greed at the core of income inequality.
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"Right now all of our eggs are in one basket and the basket is called Earth."
Four billion years ago, the Universe was a different place. What would we have seen? “In such moments, offering up his heart at the hour when the flowers of night […]
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You know Shaquille O'Neal the basketball player. Do you know the Shaquille O'Neal who has both an MBA and an Ed.D?
Are too many taking liberties with the logic of our freedoms? A smart reassessment of Henry David Thoreau's work spotlights key related issues.
Researchers experiment with gene deletion.
Rubens’ Prometheus literally flips Michelangelo’s Christ on his head to look at art and gods in a whole new way.
I can see it in your eyes. I can see it in your smile.
Vince Lombardi famously once said, "Winners never quit. Quitters never win." But a new study finds otherwise.
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You can't improve as a cook (or anything) without making a lot of horrible food (or whatever) first.
Last year almost 80 billion videos were watched on Pornhub, the world's largest repository of free online porn. No wonder Playboy has to rethink its revenue stream.
Before NASA’s Dawn spacecraft found white weirdness on Ceres, it had a close encounter with the second largest asteroid: Vesta. “I have announced this star as a comet, but since […]
We want to believe.
Penn State and Yale University astronomers, unable to explain strange data patterns they're observing from a star, have come to the conclusion that there may be an "alien superstructure" orbiting it.
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The Warby Parker co-founder explains how he and his partners developed a methodical strategy for disrupting the eyeglasses industry ... and then did just that.
Where is the next catastrophe likely to take place and what might the fallout be?
If all the worlds formed together, they have the ingredients for life, too. Maybe it isn’t just Earth who got lucky. “If I had to describe myself to an alien […]
Why the momentum for a sassy Manhattan billionaire and the upsurge in popularity for a no-nonsense Brooklynite?