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Businesses looking to get people in the door may want to check out Pokémon Go. Seriously.
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It's official – it's a food intervention. Psychiatrist Drew Ramsey is going to be supportive, but he's also going to tell you to clean up your diet, and eat right for brain health.
1 in 7 people get them, and there is no cure. Now researchers are one step closer to what causes migraines, and how best to manage them.   
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Former Chief Learning Officer at LinkedIn, Kelly Palmer identifies an unstoppable trend: millennials are a growing proportion of the workforce. Here's how millennials will change the future of work.
A new study by a Harvard University economist shows surprising results about whom the police are actually more likely to shoot.
Physicist Lawrence Krauss explains why understanding new theories in physics is so hard, and why it’s so much fun.
If we started all over again, could our Solar System’s second planet have been the inhabited one? “It was the Venus I had prayed to, it was my prayer, though […]
How many kinds of stories are there? From Harry Potter, to Oedipus and Romeo and Juliet, scientists at University of Vermont use data modeling to figure it out. 
The Freedom From Religion Foundation sent out over a thousand letters warning public schools away from this creationist propaganda.
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Sebastian Junger investigates PTSD in US troops and finds war may not be the root cause, but rather the painful transition from platoon communalism to the fractured individualism and social divides of modern society.
Nintendo has recently-released the Pokémon Go smartphone game has taken the U.S. by storm, ushering in a new age in gaming and augmented reality.
How do you fool a robot? It’s not difficult—machines are only good at what we tell them to do. But even still, many parts of our world may not be “readable” to some robots.
An awful op-ed about how science is no different than other disciplines misses some fundamental facts. “Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.” […]
For Renzo Picasso, could it be that sharing a last name with last century's most famous painter pushed this visionary architect deeper into obscurity?
The science behind tickling and why such an unpleasant experience makes us laugh.
Humans like to believe evolution implies progress. As Stephen Jay Gould notes, Darwin warned of this misunderstanding. We may be better at adapting to our present, regrettable circumstances.
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Bill Nye once thought of GMO foods as ethically hazardous, but with thorough industry regulations and growing food pressures, he's come to embrace the genetic mutants on our plates.
And are likely due to subsurface water, geysers and an incredible process. “Have you entered the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in search of the depths?” –Job […]
Some within the autism community take issue with seeing autistic people as having a disorder, decrying the "cure culture".