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how to keep your employees happy

Studies into the health of workers and middle managers leads to the inescapable conclusion that today's work culture is making us miserable and unhealthy.
how to keep your employees happy

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anatomy of a politically painful fraud

Michael LaCour's groundbreaking study on how just talking to an LGBT person could change homophobic attitudes was a fraud. But why did it take so longer to uncover it and what does it mean for other researchers?
anatomy of a politically painful fraud

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looking for the ghosts of dark matter past…

Unfortunately, the Higgs particle doesn't explain the origins of dark matter, sending cosmologists looking for new particles to help fill in the blanks.
looking for the ghosts of dark matter past…

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why my dog is smarter than your a.i.

When thinking about AI, we often focus on human analogs. But what if we consider a non-human intelligence for a change?
why my dog is smarter than your a.i.

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an open letter to the standard model

Particle physicists managed to confirm virtually everything about the Standard Model. Now they're stuck with very little wiggle room to explain some of the universe's oddest mysteries.
an open letter to the standard model

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the medical questions of studying the transgendered

Instead of erasing and pathologizing transgenderism, we should be studying it to unlock answers to long standing questions about sex and gender.
the medical questions of studying the transgendered

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why you should keep your head where it is

Of all the things you could get transplanted, your head should not make the list. The risks are far too great and better methods are on the horizon.
why you should keep your head where it is

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to meat or not to meat, that is the question

The future of meat isn't exactly not meat, at least not yet. But there is one way we could convince at least some people to start eating meat that doesn't come from an animal...
to meat or not to meat, that is the question

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spacex should partner with reaction engines

New designs for potential single stage to orbit space planes won't replace rockets. But they could handle crews while the rockets handle cargo.
spacex should partner with reaction engines

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wait, you get your science news from where?

A longform article on GMOs in Elle demonstrates why you really shouldn't be getting your scientific advice from fashion magazines.
wait, you get your science news from where?

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why chemophobia is not the future of food

A lot of food sold as natural and wholesome is really just expensive and its sustainability is highly dubious. And its popularity is quickly becoming highly politicized.
why chemophobia is not the future of food

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the t-rex was a predator and we have proof

We finally have ironclad evidence showing that T. Rex was not an oversized scavenger as some argued, but actively hunted its prey.
the t-rex was a predator and we have proof

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why trying to sweat out your toxins is a bad idea

If you're exercising in searing heat and soaking humidity, that weird feeling isn't toxins leaving your body, it's the beginning of a heat stroke.
why trying to sweat out your toxins is a bad idea

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yes, the universe can be explained by the spinning of atoms. get over it.

Curtis White fancies himself a man of deep thought and keep insight. His "nuh-uh" take on Dawkins' The God Delusion shows otherwise.
yes, the universe can be explained by the spinning of atoms. get over it.

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the infinitely vast, mandatory multiverse?

A group of physicists say that a multiverse, in which we're just one of many sibling universes, is an inevitable result of cosmic inflation.
the infinitely vast, mandatory multiverse?

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