The Vietnam draft lotteries functioned as a randomized experiment—which has allowed social scientists to study its life-changing effects
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Why is childcare so expensive?
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Joe Biden's verbal stumbles have voters worried about his mental fitness. Maybe they’d be more understanding if they knew he’s still fighting a stutter
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How bison create the spring : Indigenous groups are leading efforts to reintroduce free-roaming buffalo throughout their lands
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Google is an emerging health-care juggernaut, and privacy laws weren’t written to keep up
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Why the trolls booed at Don Jr.’s event
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Smart TVs collect data for political-advertising use
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Why the search for dark matter depends on ancient shipwrecks
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The not-com bubble is popping—The unicorn massacre unfolding today is exactly the opposite of what happened in 2000
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China is usually strategic and savvy. Why does it seem so upset about a tweet, an app, and a gamer in a mask in the absence of any real threat?
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Why you never see your friends anymore
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Jeff Bezos’s master plan - What the Amazon founder and CEO wants for his empire and himself, and what that means for the rest of us
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The end of silence - The tech industry is producing a rising din, and our bodies can’t adapt
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Forever 21's bankruptcy shows that teens are outgrowing malls
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Why so many Americans are turning to Buddhism
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How to keep teachers from leaving the profession
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The problem with sugar-daddy science
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Scientists taught rats to play hide-and-seek with them
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The US health-care system found a way to make peanuts cost $4,200
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It’s time for Black athletes to leave White colleges
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A famous argument against free will has been debunked
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The Atlantic launches new subscription plans and introduces a metered model
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The next recession will destroy millennials
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An ingenious microscope could change how quickly disease is detected
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Free speech tropes - Common misstatements, misconceptions, and bad arguments about the First Amendment in American media
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Trump has defected to the autocrats
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Meritocracy prizes achievement above all else, turning life into an endless competition and making everyone—even the rich—miserable
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Lyme disease is baffling, even to experts
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The anthropocene is a joke: On geological timescales, human civilization is an event, not an epoch
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The human cost of amber - Fossils preserved in sap offer an astonishingly clear view of the distant past, but they come at a high price
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The endless, invisible persuasion tactics of the internet
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The case for legal magic mushrooms
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The future of the city is childless - America’s urban rebirth is missing something key—actual births
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The biggest star at YouTube's VidCon 2019 was TikTok
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Cancel Qatar: The money for the next men's World Cup would be better invested in the women's game.
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Reparations are not the answer - The struggle against poverty needs to be a collective fight
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Five years ago, Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 vanished into the Indian Ocean. Officials on land know more about why than they dare to say
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The case for reparations
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Your professional decline is coming (much) sooner than you think
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No, you don't look like that. How phone cameras alter reality.
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The platform excuse is dying
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The Toy Story trilogy gets the epilogue it deserves
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A Turkish opposition leader is fighting Recep Tayyip Erdoğan with ‘radical love’
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When you give a friend a kidney
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Men in Black: International forgets what made the original so great
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The experience of working on a thirty-year-old Macintosh SE
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The friends who have been playing the same game of Dungeons & Dragons for thirty years
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Too many people want to travel
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Atomic veterans were silenced for fifty Years. Now, they’re talking.
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Facebook’s dystopian definition of ‘fake’ - For the social-media platform, a doctored video of Nancy Pelosi is content, not a phony
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