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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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Archaeologists Take Wrong Turn, Find World's Oldest Stone Tools [Update]
Archaeologists working in the Kenyan Rift Valley have discovered the oldest known stone tools in the world. Dated to around 3.3 million years ago, the implements are some 700,000 years older than stone tools from Ethiopia that previously held this distinction...
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25 Terrific Science(y) Books
John Horgan lists 25 of his favorite science(y) books, from Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams to Joyce's Ulysses
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After Ebola, a Blueprint Emerges to Jump-Start R&D
Accelerated testing of compounds that have shown efficacy against the virus may lead to new drugs and vaccines
Illusion Chasers
The Current Biology of the Dress
This week the first wave of research from scientific journals has begun to be published; Current Biology has posted a trio of papers by three different prominent competing color vision labs, each describing their initial studies of The Dress...
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Rice and Beans: Shaping the Customer's Choice
As more cultural commodities enter the market, cultural distinctions will become muted to suit the appetites of a wider clientele
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The Long Road from Coley Toxins to Cancer Immunotherapies
The quest to enlist the body's immune system in the fight against cancer is progressing slowly, but surely
Anthropology in Practice
Rice and Beans: The Private Role of Food
The signfiicance of selling a personal substance in the public market.
The Artful Amoeba
Root Fungi Can Turn Pine Trees Into Carnivores — or at Least Accomplices
Root fungi may confer dark but useful powers on their plant hosts
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The Richest Reef: A Bagful of New Species
Divers on a research expedition to the Philippines' Coral Triangle uncover a trove marine biodiversity
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What Drives Subconscious Racial Prejudice?
A study of anti-Roma bias in Hungary seeks to identify the roots of subliminal bias
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