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Lawmen and outlaws were often the same people.
A history of injustice and the greatest natural location for ground-based telescopes have long been at odds. Here's how the healing begins.
Personal finance advice is often over-simplified and fails to consider economic research or people’s unique circumstances.
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These 5 research-backed tips can turn bad habits into financial gain.
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The new documentary “Make People Better” leans toward a different narrative about gene-editing than we've heard before.
These five great books should prompt us to work on what needs fixing the most in the world: ourselves.
"Lethal autonomous weapon" sounds friendlier than "killer robot."
Without a solid understanding of the factors that affect the transfer of learning, the gulf between training and job performance is difficult to bridge.
People naturally judge fact from fiction in offline social settings, so why is it so hard online?
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We don’t need one Elon Musk. We need 8 billion empathic futurists.
Is science for everyone, or just the morally upright?
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Short-term thinkers take shortcuts. Take the long path instead, explains futurist Ari Wallach.
If everyone just showed up to their appointments, $150 billion of waste could be averted.
Three years after the pandemic began, we still don't know the origin of COVID. A strange lack of curiosity has stifled the debate.
Years of shoddy research have overstated the risk.
If measuring eLearning ROI is so important, why aren’t more organizations doing it?
What if your best friend was an informant?
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Economist Tyler Cowen says there are good reasons to be crypto-skeptical.
This year’s Nobel Peace Prize ceremony sends yet another strong message to Russian president Vladimir Putin.
We could even benefit from more whataboutisms — if they're used properly.
Synthetic biology has the power to cure and kill. Have we learned from our past mistakes?
Instead of liberation, the sexual revolution has led some people, particularly men, to be addicted to porn.
Televising the coronation was thought to be an affront to the dignity of the event.
Summit Public Schools take a radically different approach to education. And it's working.
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Elon Musk suggested remote-controlled, vibrating anal beads. Thankfully, there are more mundane explanations.
Elon Musk, Jack Dorsey, Steve Jobs, Elizabeth Holmes – are these celebrity CEOs good for their business?
Some animals were even assigned their own lawyers.
The brain is highly plastic — the more we do a particular action, the more we change its makeup. Money is a great motivator for habit-forming actions.
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