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When the news doesn't tell you everything.
An experiment from the 1920s explains why cliffhangers are so compelling and starting a task is often the most important part.
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Social media as a business tool is in a constant state of evolution. What works today isn't going to be good enough for tomorrow.
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The physics of "nonlocality" made easy.
Freud was much more than the Id and Oedipus, and he may be the answer to today’s problems.
Pretty soon, these maps may be as dated as the Bing Crosby song
The Fed slowly removes the training wheels.
A New York legal case could impact us all.
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You already know the statistics: The U.S. incarcerates more people than any other country. But do you know why?
Getting people to like you has never been easier.
Elon Musk wants to shoot us back and forth from work at 750 miles per hour.
What if overeager parents took a step back from pushing their kids toward good colleges?
The values of the sharing economy are nothing new to older demographics.
Before there was Cruise, Stallone, and Schwarzenegger, there was Douglas Fairbanks.
A group of researchers from MIT has thought of what the next anonymous network might look like.
Alleged deserter Bowe Bergdahl is the subject of this season's popular podcast Serial and he practically confessed to desertion on it.
Life on Earth may not be the only way. But could it be this different? This article is written by Jillian Scudder, currently a postdoctoral researcher at Sussex in the […]
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One day, people will look back on humanity's religious past and laugh, says skeptic and science writer Michael Shermer.
Insufficient commitments to carbon cuts, and a process to encourage deeper cuts that is only voluntary, are bad news for our future.
The Mexican census looks a little different this year.