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Masks and Emasculation: Why Some Men Refuse to Take Safety Precautions
They think it makes them look weak, and avoiding that is evidently more important to them than demonstrating responsible behavior
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How a Landmark Physics Paper from the 1970s Uncannily Describes the COVID-19 Pandemic
Phil Anderson’s article “More Is Different” describes how different levels of complexity require new ways of thinking. And as the virus multiplies and spreads, that’s just what the human race desperately needs...
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The Fight against COVID-19 Threatens to Cause Collateral Health Damage
The pandemic is no excuse to abandon chronic disease management and prevention
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Duking It Out with Quantum Mechanics
A longtime professor of astronomy continues to wrestle with the strangeness of it all
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"Frost Fairs," the Little Ice Age and Climate Change
When the Thames would occasionally freeze in the 17th to the early 19th century, Londoners made the most of it
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The Affordable Care Act and Economic Opportunity
Medicaid expansion makes it less likely that the children of poor mothers will grow up to be poor adults
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The Science of Asking What People Want
Market research can extract plenty of data, but its greatest value is in evoking reactions
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'Oumuamua's Cousin?
A search of a meteor-detection archive reveals a possible second interstellar visitor
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I Can Has Numberz?
Mathematicians can be adorably ignorant...
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Gravitational Waves, Nuclear Fire, Rocks and Love
A five-billion-year-old detective story reveals two new players in our origins
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New Duckbill Dinosaur Looks Sharp
Fossils found in the Gobi Desert reveal an unusual herbivore.
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Diamonds: Tears of the Gods
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In Defense of Disbelief: An Anti-Creed
We should doubt all theories and theologies that claim to solve the problem of who we really are
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