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Science
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Flying Air Conditioners: A Minor Study in Risk Assessment
In a hurricane, is it more dangerous to leave your A/C in the window or try to remove it?
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Hybrid Hell
A few inches of sea level rise make Hurricane Sandy even more catastrophic.
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Why Was “Education” the Answer to Every Debate Question?
Obama’s education campaign puts Romney on the defensive.
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San Francisco’s Spectacular Hypocrisy
Will voters restore “one of Nature’s rarest and most precious mountain mansions”?
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Heaven Help Us
Another “Harvard brain scientist” finds faith and tells the world.
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Mitt Romney's Coal Complex
The GOP candidate’s distortions, flip-flops, and bad jokes about energy.
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Why Mitt Romney’s Massachusetts Education Plan Backfired
His scholarship program sounded logical enough, but it’s failing.
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When Scientists Screw Up
Say you’ve made a great astronomical discovery. What if you’re wrong?
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The Irrational Allure of the Next Big Thing
Why we value potential over achievement.
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Darwin, That Genius, Was Responsible for Hitler, Stalin, and Pol Pot
The latest effort to smear evolution by natural selection.
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Why Your 4-Year-Old Is As Smart as Nate Silver
And if kids are so smart, why are adults so stupid about statistics?
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President Obama Is an Introvert and So Am I
But that doesn’t mean we don’t like you.
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Who Will Win a Nobel Prize?
Everything you need to know about the contenders, rivalries, scandals, and politics of the famous awards.
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The Internet Blowhard’s Favorite Phrase
Why do people love to say that correlation does not imply causation?
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Why Is Romney Campaigning on Medical Quackery?
He's going after the ultimate niche voter: Virginia’s Lyme disease conspiracy theorists.
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GMO Opponents Are the Climate Skeptics of the Left
Don’t worry. Genetically modified corn isn’t going to give you cancer.
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Why You Hate Cyclists
Partly because of jerks like me. But it’s mostly your own illogical mind.
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Feathered Dinosaurs Drive Creationists Crazy
Biblical literalists are on a campaign to “take dinosaurs back.”
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Fuzzy and Fizzy
The contested science behind Bloomberg's ban on large-sized sodas.
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The Greatest Hits of Weird Science
What the Oscars could learn from the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony.
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Thomas Jefferson Defends America With a Moose
Europeans said America was “degenerate.” Jefferson was obsessed with proving them wrong.
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Romney Out-Debates Obama
How the GOP candidate schooled the president on science policy.
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Rachel Carson Didn’t Kill Millions of Africans
How the 50-year-old campaign against Silent Spring still distorts environmental debates.
