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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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The Internet Is a Cesspool of Racist Pseudoscience
The author of Superior: The Return of Race Science knows this from firsthand experience
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What Market Research Can Learn from Baseball
The data points we choose to focus on determine how we see the world
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Does Technology Spell Doom for Close Relationships?
Research shows it’s not helping, but solutions do exist
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Don’t Be Too Quick to Dismiss “Soft Science”
Surprisingly, the study of leadership and management is often more reliable than much of medical research
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Climate Change? “Meh,” Say Gentoo Penguins
Their ability to adapt can help guide how we respond to a warming world
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No E.T. Life Yet?
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Dinosaurs of a Feather Nested Together
A special site in the Gobi Desert preserves rare evidence of a dinosaur nesting ground
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It’s Time the U.S. Had a Psychologist General
The country is in a mental health crisis, and nobody is really in charge
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Geo Bits: Cascadia Edition
Fear and fascination haunts the Cascadia subduction zone in this collection of recent articles
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Which Should Come First in Physics: Theory or Experiment? Glad You Asked
Since Newton, the foundations of physics progressed in a virtuous cycle of hypothesis and experiment until the cycle broke 40 years ago. A bigger collider will not solve the problem
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