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Education shouldn’t just be about preparing us for the workforce. It should prepare us for life.
A doctor’s take on How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
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She met mere mortals with and without the Vatican’s approval.
It’s all about holding on to the heat you have.
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The key to Finland’s success is to view education not as a privilege, but a right.
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If you want to know what makes a Canadian lynx a Canadian lynx a team of DNA sequencers has figured that out.
Artists and fans are the big losers as bot-powered scalpers make a killing.
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“The best is the child in a separate room, where it then remains alone,” a bestselling Nazi-era parenting book advised.
The renowned linguist and controversial political critic said President Donald Trump is choosing to race toward the catastrophes of climate change.
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If you think you have problems today, be glad you’re not moving at the speed of light. Special relativity, even though it’s over 100 years old, is still one of the […]
When two black holes merge together, about 5% of their mass gets lost. Where does that information go? Do merging black holes lose information? They absolutely must, according to General […]
The five stages of psychogenic death — aka, “give-up-itis.”
On September 27, 1972, scientists performed the first test of Bell’s inequality. God does play dice with the Universe, after all. One of the most puzzling and counterintuitive aspects of quantum […]
Haley, who’s at times been both a supporter and critic of the president, reportedly “shocked” White House officials by announcing the end of her two-year tenure as a U.N. ambassador.
A new study shows how bots and Russian trolls have been spreading misinformation and confusion on Twitter about vaccination in an apparent attempt to sow discord among Americans.
Scientists think constructing a miles-long wall along an ice shelf in Antarctica could help protect the world’s largest glacier from melting.
Four out of every five American adults and children are not moving enough.
The lawsuit claims the administration violated the First Amendment when it revoked the press credentials of reporter Jim Acosta.
Digging deeper into the mystery of the brain, soul, and consciousness.
Luxembourg will offer the world’s first fare-free public transit system, but is there really such a thing as a free ride?
We often support ideas without knowing quite why. John Stuart Mill reminds us why capitalism can be great for us and why we should be wary of state power.
Despite little clinical evidence of efficacy, a growing number of parents are giving their children supplements that could prove dangerous.
A measles comeback is not the sort of return our children deserve.