Rejection kills: The brain makes no distinction between a broken bone and an aching heart. That’s why social exclusion needs a health warning
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Burger King is the latest brand to use depression as a marketing tool
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The productivity pit: Work communication software like Teams, Slack, and Workplace were supposed to make us more productive. They haven’t.
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Why we are addicted to conspiracy theories
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The race to develop the moon
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Your questions about food and climate change, answered
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Neuroscience now points to rejection causing physical pain: how do we treat and address social exclusion?
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After overthrowing its government and changing its name, North Macedonia faces up to the urban crisis in Skopje
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Learning my father’s language: I made a vow to teach myself Irish, the language my mother struggled to learn, so that my daughters may learn it too
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Indigenous educators fight for an accurate history of California
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Who stole Dorothy’s ruby slippers from Judy Garland’s hometown? The inside story of the epic, thirteen-year quest to find them.
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When a child's mental health diagnosis comes too late to help
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The future of Podemos is at stake today
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As more and more of our words are tapped out on keyboards, writing by hand has become an endangered species
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Gene Wolfe turned science fiction into high art
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“I felt like it was a betrayal, and we had raised funds on a false pretense”: The Correspondent’s first US employee speaks out
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The best hike in every US state
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Saudi fugitives accused of serious crimes get help to flee while US officials look the other way
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Hand dryers vs. paper towels: The surprisingly dirty fight for the right to dry your hands
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Ireland is blocking the world on data privacy - it's the designated lead regulator for many companies under EU privacy law, but it's in bed with the companies it should be regulating
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Red Dead Redemption 2: six months later – A detailed look at the failures, and success, of Rockstar’s latest hit
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California tried to fix its prisons. Now county jails are more deadly.
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A Dispatch From the Fast-Paced, Makeshift World of High-End Catering
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Introducing the Overwatch Workshop
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Lou Ortenzio was a trusted West Virginia doctor who got his patients—and himself—hooked on opioids. Now he’s trying to rescue his community from an epidemic he helped start.
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A search for answers, a search for blame - In grieving Parkland, a fight over school discipline and the PROMISE program is ripping the community apart
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The spoil of mariners
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We will not be shoved back into the closet: A statement from trans protesters in Kansas City
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The Black feminists who saw the alt-right threat coming
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Michelin restaurants and fabulous wines: Inside the secret team dinners that have built the Spurs' dynasty
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Increasingly competitive college admissions: much more than you wanted to know
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There's a gold-standard treatment for opioid addiction, one of America's top killers. What keeps treatment centers from using it?
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The zero-waste revolution: How a new wave of shops could end excess packaging
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Is prison necessary? Ruth Wilson Gilmore might change your mind.
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We just remembered how to strike
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Secrecy, self-dealing, and greed at the NRA
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The data all guilt-ridden parents need: What science tells us about breast-feeding, sleep training and all the agonizing decisions of parenthood
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Dentistry is much less scientific—and more prone to gratuitous procedures—than you may think
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Normalization of deviance
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How a drunken swim in Nevada's Devils Hole and a dead endangered pupfish led to a rare prosecution and prison sentence
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America's leading animal geneticist wants to talk to you about GMOs
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The age of robot farmers - Picking strawberries takes speed, stamina, and skill. Can a robot do it?
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15 Months of Fresh Hell Inside Facebook
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Why Bernie Sanders should give his millions away
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Guantánamo’s darkest secret - The US military prison’s leadership considered Mohamedou Salahi to be its highest-value detainee. But his guard suspected otherwise.
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A big jump for Wolfram Language and Mathematica: Version 12
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Some high-profile male tech executives accused of sexual misconduct are getting second chances
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The legend of Keanu Reeves
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Life and death in West Virginia
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Last summer, Foxconn announced a barrage of new projects in Wisconsin, but an attempt to check up on them found little except empty buildings and secrecy
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