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Superior IQs associated with mental and physical disorders, research suggests
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Snobbery Helped Take the Spice Out of European Cooking (2015)
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How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers (2019)
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How Inuit parents teach kids to control their anger
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Finland provides housing and counseling to the homeless (2020)
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Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Earth Was Covered by Giant Mushrooms (2013)
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Dirt Poor: Have Fruits and Vegetables Become Less Nutritious?
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Peter Thiel turned a Roth IRA into a $5B tax-free piggy bank
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Paleontologists are trying to understand why the fossil record is mostly males
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Mystery Math Whiz and Novelist Advance Permutation Problem
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NYC major crime complaints fell when cops took a break from ‘proactive policing’
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The Legendary Study That Embarrassed Wine Experts (2014)
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When people ate people, a strange disease emerged (2016)
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To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as reading language
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High-fructose corn syrup prompts considerably more weight gain than sugar (2010)
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Treating beef like coal would make a big dent in greenhouse-gas emissions
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If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich? Turns out it’s just chance
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The risk of nitrites and nitrates in bacon
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50 years of tax cuts for the rich failed to trickle down, economics study says
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OLPC’s $100 laptop was going to change the world
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Spotify's Beta Used 'Pirate' MP3 Files, Some from Pirate Bay (2017)
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A Simple Algorithm That Ants Use to Build Bridges
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How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing (2013)
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The declining authority of statistics and the experts who analyse them
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The Drugging of the American Boy (2014)
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Wage Theft is a Bigger Problem Than Other Forms of Theft (2014)
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Sierra was captured, then killed, by an accounting fraud
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Why 12-Foot Traffic Lanes Are Disastrous for Safety
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US is an oligarchy, not a democracy (2014)
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The programming talent myth
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How to Get Kids to Do Chores: Does the Maya Method Work?
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How an Alzheimer’s ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure
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Google Moves to Address Wage Equity, and Finds It’s Underpaying Many Men
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The EU Suppressed a 300-Page Study That Found Piracy Doesn’t Harm Sales
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Man built a bunker under Hampstead Heath and lived in it for two years
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Installing air filters in classrooms has surprisingly large educational benefits (2020)
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Russians Engineer a Slot Machine Cheat that Casinos Can't Fix
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The frequent fliers who flew too much (2012)
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The hyper-specialist shops of Berlin
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Casino-like apps have drained people of millions
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