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conulyEmails Show Feds Asking Florida Cops to Deceive Judges
Western-born jihadists rally to ISIS's fight in Iraq and Syria
This won't hurt a bit: the cultural history of pain
How Lessons From a Brain-Infecting Fungi Could Change Medicine
NYC School Cops Are Putting Kids on the Fast Route to Prison
How Overlooked Plants Like the Potato Bean Can Be Tamed to Feed the World
Introducing the Vacuum Transistor: A Device Made of Nothing
This curious mash-up of vacuum tube and MOSFET could one day replace traditional silicon
How times have changed in New York City! Extraordinary colour photographs reveal 1940s life in the Big Apple in all its glory
Major cities could see big drops in uninsured, increase in revenue with Medicaid expansion
Why inequality might make kids drop out of high school
Researchers have long thought that autism was more common among white children in the U.S. than other ethnic or racial groups. But a new study of birth records in highly diverse Los Angeles County suggests that children whose mothers emigrated from certain countries may be particularly at risk.
Republicans Finally Admit Why They Really Hate Obamacare
Insecticides put world food supplies at risk, say scientists
10 maps that show how much time Americans spend grooming, eating, thinking and praying
The United Nations says more than 1,000 people have been killed in Iraq this month, most of them civilians, as Sunni Islamist insurgents have taken over most of the country’s north.
Report Exposes Companies That Dumped 206 Million Pounds of Toxic Chemicals Into U.S. Waterways
Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi called on Tuesday for a change of course in Europe, saying austerity policies on their own could not guarantee fiscal stability as unemployment rises and economies stagnate.
Violent and Legal: The Shocking Ways School Kids Are Being Pinned Down, Isolated Against Their Will
Goldman Sachs confirmed last week what we all have know long ago: the rent is too damn high.
Raids target militants in China
The senior executives who played leading roles in the 2008 financial crisis can breathe a sigh of relief: If any committed crimes, the statute of limitations will run out for most of them this year. It's safe to say nobody will go to jail.
A hundred years of American politics, in one GIF
Want to Suppress the Vote? Stress People Out
The latest science-of-politics study suggests that GOP voter intimidation tactics may be more effective than liberals have feared—for biological reasons.
Survey: One-fourth of Americans have no emergency savings
It’s not every day that a Republican finance guy — one who remembers George W. Bush as a “terrific boss” — writes an op-ed in the New York Times imploring the nation to set up a carbon tax. Not this year, anyway; just a few years ago, it might’ve been ho-hum.
Pesticides threaten birds and bees alike, study says
Islamic extremists have abducted 60 more girls and women and 31 boys from villages in northeast Nigeria, witnesses said Tuesday.
A Sudanese woman freed from death row on Monday has been arrested with her family at Khartoum airport
Robert Morris University will offer about 30 athletic scholarships to students who play the 'League of Legends' video game
If you think you’re being asked to fill out more and more surveys - you’re right. The Boston Globe says the best known online survey platform, SurveyMonkey , is now processing survey responses at the rate of 2.2 million per day, up from 1 million a day in January 2013. (I stole that blurb directly from Pat's Papers.)
Western-born jihadists rally to ISIS's fight in Iraq and Syria
This won't hurt a bit: the cultural history of pain
How Lessons From a Brain-Infecting Fungi Could Change Medicine
NYC School Cops Are Putting Kids on the Fast Route to Prison
How Overlooked Plants Like the Potato Bean Can Be Tamed to Feed the World
Introducing the Vacuum Transistor: A Device Made of Nothing
This curious mash-up of vacuum tube and MOSFET could one day replace traditional silicon
How times have changed in New York City! Extraordinary colour photographs reveal 1940s life in the Big Apple in all its glory
Major cities could see big drops in uninsured, increase in revenue with Medicaid expansion
Why inequality might make kids drop out of high school
Researchers have long thought that autism was more common among white children in the U.S. than other ethnic or racial groups. But a new study of birth records in highly diverse Los Angeles County suggests that children whose mothers emigrated from certain countries may be particularly at risk.
Republicans Finally Admit Why They Really Hate Obamacare
Insecticides put world food supplies at risk, say scientists
10 maps that show how much time Americans spend grooming, eating, thinking and praying
The United Nations says more than 1,000 people have been killed in Iraq this month, most of them civilians, as Sunni Islamist insurgents have taken over most of the country’s north.
Report Exposes Companies That Dumped 206 Million Pounds of Toxic Chemicals Into U.S. Waterways
Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi called on Tuesday for a change of course in Europe, saying austerity policies on their own could not guarantee fiscal stability as unemployment rises and economies stagnate.
Violent and Legal: The Shocking Ways School Kids Are Being Pinned Down, Isolated Against Their Will
Goldman Sachs confirmed last week what we all have know long ago: the rent is too damn high.
Raids target militants in China
The senior executives who played leading roles in the 2008 financial crisis can breathe a sigh of relief: If any committed crimes, the statute of limitations will run out for most of them this year. It's safe to say nobody will go to jail.
A hundred years of American politics, in one GIF
Want to Suppress the Vote? Stress People Out
The latest science-of-politics study suggests that GOP voter intimidation tactics may be more effective than liberals have feared—for biological reasons.
Survey: One-fourth of Americans have no emergency savings
It’s not every day that a Republican finance guy — one who remembers George W. Bush as a “terrific boss” — writes an op-ed in the New York Times imploring the nation to set up a carbon tax. Not this year, anyway; just a few years ago, it might’ve been ho-hum.
Pesticides threaten birds and bees alike, study says
Islamic extremists have abducted 60 more girls and women and 31 boys from villages in northeast Nigeria, witnesses said Tuesday.
A Sudanese woman freed from death row on Monday has been arrested with her family at Khartoum airport
Robert Morris University will offer about 30 athletic scholarships to students who play the 'League of Legends' video game
If you think you’re being asked to fill out more and more surveys - you’re right. The Boston Globe says the best known online survey platform, SurveyMonkey , is now processing survey responses at the rate of 2.2 million per day, up from 1 million a day in January 2013. (I stole that blurb directly from Pat's Papers.)
