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The EPA is hoping its new map will help inform a new wave of environmental justice.
Here’s a simple mind hack: If you’ve got a craving, let Tetris satiate it.
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Companies like Amazon take advantage of the fact that they know a whole lot more about buying patterns than you do. As author and entrepreneur Jerry Kaplan explains, this sort of information asymmetry is the real crux of their business plan.
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How one researcher created a pirate bay for science more powerful than even libraries at top universities.
If sold at today’s value, the value of that stock would be $45 billion.
Away from the dinner table.
We have a relationship with the Internet that influences and, in some cases, drives our behaviors. Some would call it an addiction.
Climate change will hurt farmers, although not all equally. American farmers won’t have it nearly as bad as African ones.
Baby giraffes can stand within hours of birth and zebras can run in the first 45 minutes of life.
One of the classic definitions of mindfulness is that it helps us not cling to what is pleasant and not condemn what is unpleasant.
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Why does much of the world stubbornly resist data and email encryption? Why don’t we enable it on all our devices all the time?
Alleged deserter Bowe Bergdahl is the subject of this season’s popular podcast Serial and he practically confessed to desertion on it.
Dr. Helen Blair Simpson of Columbia University Medical Center continues our series “Big Thinkers on Mental Health” with an informative crash course on the intricacies of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.
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SAT scores are the lowest they’ve been in a decade, so we’re making the test easier to take. What does that say about our data-obsessed culture?
A new study says critical thinking is a teachable skill, but who is going to teach it?
Our neighborhoods play with our perceptions about the state of wealth, influencing our opinions on wealth politics.
Just two days before its data was released, I wrote this story on what it all means. Come get the scoop! “Einstein’s gravitational theory, which is said to be the greatest […]
A complete refusal to accept basic facts has made a religion of our gun obsession.
America’s interstate system is the path toward year-round temperature comfort.
Nassim Taleb’s theories on unpredictable events can inform the MLB Draft’s selection process.
Even if you have a good emotional mask, there’s a computer that can see through the cracks.
His words give those of us with creative and depressive tendencies hope, perspective, and a sense of camaraderie.
A new French agreement hopes to curb the global waste food by encouraging supermarkets to act generously.
A look at the techniques the show’s producers use to whip the contestants into a superstitious frenzy, and the host’s own bizarre beliefs.
And what it means if we don’t see gravitational waves from inflation in the next 5–10 years. “The paradigm of physics — with its interplay of data, theory and prediction — is the most powerful […]
Companies are making information security a greater priority, throwing billions into departments involved. But is all that money enough to protect us from an attack?
Most reporting about risk hypes the danger but doesn’t provide all the information the reader needs to put the actual threat in perspective. So when balanced risk reporting shows up, it should be praised.
Everything that’s inherently quantum in the Universe is both a wave and a particle. So, are gravitational waves? “You asked me how to get out of the finite dimensions when […]
Journalist Fareed Zakaria discusses the true cost of American higher education and the structural changes that must take place to correct an unsustainable trend.
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