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How a ragtag band of internet friends became the best at forecasting world events
What the Samotsvety group can teach us about predicting the future.
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Mourning winter in a warming world
Finally, a term that explains the sadness of a whole season — and a way of life — melting before our eyes.
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We’ve been fighting poverty all wrong
The success of the expanded child tax credit shows why anti-poverty programs should be unconditional.
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The surprising scientific weirdness of glass
Three mind-bendy conversations about glass later, I see the sublime in my windowpanes.
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Why your pharmacist has the key to shrinking the gender wage gap
An interview with Harvard economist Claudia Goldin.
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Should you be friends with your kids?
Parents can have a great relationship with their kids without being their friend.
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What I learned about weight loss from spending a day inside a metabolic chamber
One of science’s best tools for understanding obesity is debunking weight loss myths.
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What if the suburbs were just a first draft?
Remote work, the arrival of home-owning millennials, and other forces can be an opportunity to remake them for the better.
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About 200 years ago, the world started getting rich. Why?
Two economic historians explain what made the Industrial Revolution, and modern life, possible.
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The problem with America’s semi-rich
America’s upper-middle class works more, optimizes their kids, and is miserable.
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The modern family
Amid distance and estrangement and strain, some are happily replacing the clans they’re born into with chosen families.
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Homeownership can bring out the worst in you
It’s the biggest thing you might ever buy. And it could be turning you into a bad person.
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Jeff Bezos will have a second act after leaving as Amazon CEO - Vox
Jeff Bezos isn’t getting less powerful. His power is just getting less obvious.
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What’s really going on with the Lincoln Project, the anti-Trump PAC that’s pissing off lots of people
Twitter loves the ads. Does that matter?
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A nun on the radical possibilities of Christianity
A conversation about love and suffering in the Christian tradition
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What a post-Trump Republican Party might look like
American Compass founder Oren Cass on why conservatives need to challenge free-market economic orthodoxy.
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Why you’re unlikely to get the coronavirus from runners or cyclists
Understanding the key concepts of transmissibility and infectious dose should reassure you.
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Why you see online ads for stuff you buy in the real world
Facebook isn’t following you around the mall, but the stores might be.
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What is going on with America’s boys?
Journalist Peggy Orenstein crisscrossed the country talking to them about masculinity, women, and sex. This is what she learned.
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The hottest new thing in sustainable building is, uh, wood
The many, many benefits of using wood in place of concrete and steel.
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The biggest lie tech people tell themselves — and the rest of us
They see facial recognition, smart diapers, and surveillance devices as inevitable evolutions. They’re not.
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The case for ditching the city and moving to the country
Plenty of people dream of doing it. Christopher Ingraham’s new book makes a pretty solid case about why you should.
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122 degrees for days: the looming Phoenix heat wave that could harm thousands
How climate change could bring the Katrina of extreme heat to Arizona.
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Google’s unusual plan for disaster relief: just give survivors money
The nonprofit GiveDirectly gives the poorest people money, no strings attached. They’re teaming up with Google for disaster relief efforts this hurricane season.
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The case against summer camp
Behind the cabins and campfires, it’s an elitist and conservative institution.
