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Researchers study the rise of violence in the toys sets by LEGO, the world's largest toy manufacturer.
The UK's National Obesity Forum has released a scathing report linking public health officials and corporate interests.
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It is one thing not to discriminate against people, says Salman Rushdie, i.e. peaceful practitioners of Islam, but to foreclose an open debate over the merits of religion is a mistake.
Harvard paleoanthropologist Daniel Lieberman argues that cultural evolution is often more influential than biological evolution, leading to a host of ailments.
One study looked at how antibiotics affect the bacteria in our gut and how this, in turn, affects our brains.
430,000 people are injured every year due to distracted driving. Will this new invention help combat this trend?
"I cook with wine. Sometimes I even add it to the food." — W. C. Fields
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Modern "theories" suggesting the Earth is flat are ignorant of basic experiential data, historical scientific findings, and how technologies like smartphone functions, says Bill Nye the Science Guy.
It’s bigger than anything on Earth. Hell, it’s bigger than Earth! “More days to come / new places to goI’ve got to leave / it’s time for a showHere I am […]
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The road to eugenics was paved with good intentions, says Siddhartha Mukherjee. So what questions are essential to ask now that we can change human DNA through gene editing technology?
Buckle up – you're about to find out which US states have the same GDP as entire countries. Frank Jacobs' latest installment of Strange Maps shines a light on the 51 countries that fit within North America's GDP.
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We assume that getting a "yes" from the other side is the goal of any negotiation, but former lead FBI negotiator Chris Voss says knowing how to get a "no" is actually more important.
There is one specific condition for fascism to take hold in the United States.
When meteors like these crash into a planet, there's not a lot that can be done except watch the fireworks.
The answer is larger than you might think, and applies in some shocking ways! “The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way […]
Floating solar panels may look strange, but there's a lot of reasons for why Japan is about to build a huge set of them.
The Global Challenges Foundation released a Global Catastrophic Risk Report last week. The results aren't pretty. Or surprising.
Nicola Thorp was recently sent home without pay for refusing to wear heels. Sexism in the workplace is only the first problem with this footwear.
The Food for Thought app from the University of Illinois teaches students about climate change through the lens of eating healthy.
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Lewis Black argues that when it comes to comedy, defying political correctness is categorically different from mean-spirited rhetoric, plus political correctness has no desire to laugh.