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Science
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Culinary Racism
Why remarks about race and fried chicken elicit such raw feelings.
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Don’t Pray for Oklahoma
Wolf Blitzer and other journalists should leave God out of natural disasters.
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Where to Hide From Mother Nature
What’s the safest place in the United States for avoiding natural disasters?
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Escape Plans
Why do we need a space program? Because Earth isn’t going to be a safe place in the long term.
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Science and Religion Can’t Be Reconciled
Why I won’t take money from the Templeton Foundation.
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Psychology Is WEIRD
Western college students are not the best representatives of human emotion, behavior, and sexuality.
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Failing the Test
Why cheating scandals and parent rebellions are erupting in schools in New York, Washington, D.C., and Atlanta.
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You’ll Never Learn!
Students can’t resist multitasking, and it’s impairing their memory.
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Are Anthropologists a Dangerous Tribe?
They’re battling about Yanomamö Indians, research ethics, and the nature of fierceness.
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What It Feels Like to Be Bad at Math
My hazy, anxious, defensive procrastination made me a better teacher.
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Don’t Call It a Monster
But be very cautious around the venomous, determined, lumbering Gila monster.
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What’s the Best Jury Size?
The Supreme Court rejected math before, but it’s now possible to calculate the jurors and margins you need for justice.
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Did Concussions Make Him Do It?
The debate over whether to test former boxer Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s brain for CTE.
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Seven Spectacular Places Saved by the Environmental Movement
To celebrate Earth Day, visit a spot that was almost flooded, polluted, or paved over.
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What Happened to My Brontosaurus?
The scaly, dimwitted monsters of our childhood have been killed off by fluffy, feathered, sprightly dinosaurs.
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Don’t Listen to E.O. Wilson
Math can help you in almost any career. There’s no reason to fear it.
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The Most Ridiculous Scene in Jurassic Park
It’s not the “bringing dinosaurs back to life” bit that makes paleontologists snort.
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The Saudi Arabia of Sashimi
Eight tiny Pacific island nations banded together to fight pirates and change the rules of the sea.
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Why I Study Duck Genitalia
Fox News and other conservative sites miss the point of basic science.
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Sharks Are the New Whales
They’ve had similar enemies, life histories, and PR problems.
