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If you knew the flu was going around your office, wouldn't it be nice to work at home for the day?
Conversations about police brutality and stereotyping are incomplete without a look at the racial wealth gap.
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Why did Homo sapiens survive where other animals died off? The answer has to do with evolution.
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Can you imagine inviting a Navy SEAL to come live with you and your family? Not to worry, author Jesse Itzler has already gone there for you.
The New York Times and other media make war too pretty for our own good.
And it couldn’t have done it without the heat from our world. “Cheap little rhymesA cheap little tuneAre sometimes as dangerousAs a sliver of the moon.” -Langston Hughes If you’ve ever […]
Google has a new tool out to help you compare mortgages. Will it be setting trends for a new market in the upcoming years?
Donald Trump is the poster boy for the GOP, which has used its ability to harness anger for the powers of bad. 
Studies say we need friends in order to be happier, healthier, and to live longer — but in this case, is less more? 
Syrian refugees and others are in crisis, but to approach the problem with temporary solutions won't get us very far.
Kill stress and gain perspective by way of creative expression.
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Legendary food critic, author, and restaurant owner Ruth Reichl paints a fascinating portrait of our food crisis and explodes food myths that many of us take for granted.
When you make anything Minecraft- or Frozen- or Star Wars-themed, it's hard to keep kids away.
The force that has only been seen on the largest cosmic scales affects smaller ones, too. We just need to look well enough. “There are still so many questions to answer. […]
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Eric Paley, Managing Director of Founder Collective, extols the entrepreneurial spirit of Kinsa CEO Inder Singh.
Even when everything sucks, you can still feel thankful. 
Research now says that we all react differently to the same foods. Maybe grabbing that cookie isn't as bad as we thought it was.
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"We shouldn't be in the dark ages about knowing the health situation around us," says Kinsa founder Inder Singh. We mostly are in the dark ages, however, because medicine makers haven't focused on mapping the spread of disease, just stopping its biological causes.