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The Number That Becomes More Amazing the More You Study It

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The Famous Minority Report Gesture Technology Could Help People Think More Intelligently

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The Day the Dream of Democracy Died in Hong Kong

Hana Meihan Davis

May 31, 2021 9:00 AM

John Green Reviews the Internet (Mixed)

John Green

May 31, 2021 5:50 AM

The Worst COVID Prediction Model Was Great at Projecting Cattle Disease in the 1800s

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The 1980s Tear-Jerker That Helped My Mother and Me Talk, Finally, About My Dad

Michael Koresky

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What Makes Human Brains Special?

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General Education Has a Bad Rap

David Epstein

April 27, 2021 5:40 AM

How a Toxic Battle Over Wolves in Europe Became a Productive Conversation

Amanda Ripley

April 21, 2021 12:52 PM

What Happened When the U.S. Government Tried to Make the Immigration System Digital

Hana Schank and Tara Dawson McGuinness

April 16, 2021 10:21 AM

Death Is the Capital of Uruguay

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Where the Migrant Crisis Is Measured by the People Who Disappear

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March 30, 2021 5:50 AM

Lab-Grown Brain Organoids Aren’t Alive. But They’re Not Not Alive, Either.

Carl Zimmer

March 17, 2021 11:18 AM

Nicki Minaj Is Hip-Hop’s Greatest Shape-Shifter

Lesley Chow

March 08, 2021 5:45 AM

Too Often, Journalists Think Analytics Can Tell Them Everything About Their Audiences

Jacob L. Nelson

March 01, 2021 9:00 AM

What I Learned From the Adult Chickenpox Case That Landed Me in the Hospital

Tessa Miller

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The Stan Lee Story That Tore Apart Marvel Comics

Abraham Riesman

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What an Astrophysicist Sees in Basketball That You Don’t

Nick Greene

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What’s Missing When Electronics Ignore Our Sense of Touch

Sushma Subramanian

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