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"It’s a common enough scenario. A vegetarian has been invited to a friend’s place for dinner. The host forgets that the guest is a vegetarian, and places a pork chop in front of her. What is she to do? "
Scientists didn’t know why the sleep deprived experienced cognitive lapses, until now.
Breakthrough gene therapy allows doctors to replace 80% of an epidermolysis bullosa patient’s skin.
Kids say the darndest things. They're also far more adept at workflow management than adults are. What can we learn from them?
A new report shows that the true costs of war are much higher than reported by the Pentagon.
How to overcome anxiety in a time that tries men's souls.
From millions of miles to millions of light years, there’s nothing else that leaves trails like this. When you point your telescope at the distant Universe, observing a faint, massive object […]
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Two-thirds of the achievement gap for American children is due to the "summer learning loss". Here's how we fix that.
Researchers believe they have enough evidence to support the “kelp highway hypothesis.”
One day in 1995, a large, heavy middle-aged man robbed two Pittsburgh banks in broad daylight. He didn't wear a mask or any sort of disguise. And he smiled at […]
And thanks to Alvin Plantinga, they have a rational conversation.
In our modern, increasingly globalized world, organizations both large and small are being tasked with managing ever more diverse workforces. As our understanding of diversity evolves, we see it in […]
Do you know you Hangzhous from your Changzhous?
The differences between what you are and what you could be are stunning. The human body consists of somewhere around 1028particles, all bound together. The typical human has a mass […]
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Religion influences politics more now than it did 50 years ago. Are we going forward or backward?
DEFCON hackers find it’s really easy to hack U.S. voting machines.
Charisma comes down to two things.
Most marriages end in resentment. Why should longevity be the sole marker of a successful marriage?
We know that body language reveals a lot. But language is an even bigger tell if you know what to look for.
This is the oldest fossil ever found belonging to the line that leads to us.