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The best doesn’t exist. A psychologist explains why we can’t stop searching.
Psychologist Barry Schwartz on the allure of a doomed mission.
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How Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer got Trump to own a government shutdown
Pelosi and Schumer didn’t know their meeting with Trump would be televised. They still used it to their advantage.
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Adélie penguins poop pink guano. It’s so bright, you can see it from space.
You can join the scientific quest to track penguin poop from space. It could help protect the species.
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How Trump made the North Korea crisis worse
An expert explains how Obama left Trump a North Korea mess, and how Trump found a way to make it more dangerous.
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The Geminid meteor shower — one of the best of the year — peaks Thursday and Friday
Fragments from the asteroid 3200 Phaethon will burn brightly in the sky.
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North Carolina GOP admits a new House election is probably needed after election fraud scandal
State officials have discretion under state law to call for a new election if the basic fairness of the election is in question.
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Why women have better sex under socialism, according to an anthropologist
An interview with Kristen Ghodsee on her provocative thesis.
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California’s cap-and-trade system may be too weak to do its job
It was designed to please Big Oil. That may be all it does.
