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Archives for November 2014
Science fiction can give students a tangible vision of change.
In a horrifying new video, an ISIS fighter stands over a severed head and claims that it is the murdered aid worker, before filming the mass beheading of a group of Syrian hostages.
Puzzle-solving crows. Language-learning dogs. Animals are way smarter than we realized.
The comet data collected by Philae will help us better understand the solar system — and maybe even life on Earth.
The eight or so hours that Obamacare’s open enrollment has existed so far this year, something stands out to me: Healthcare.gov seems to be working.
A new poll shows Americans (as well as people worldwide) wildly overestimate their country’s unemployment rate.
The irony of everyone turning on Jon Gruber.
An amazing map of gender ratios by county.
Today is a very big day in the health care world: around 12:30 a.m. this morning, Obamacare’s health insurance marketplaces went live for round two of open enrollment.
Part musical, part sibling drama, and part complete absurdity, Over the Garden Wall is a story that might be about death and is definitely about brotherhood.
Plus, the ban on blood donations from men who’ve had sex with men could be coming to an end.
Greek life can hang on tenaciously, even when colleges try to drive it off campus.
People are so focused on how to shoehorn net neutrality into an 18-year-old legal framework that they’re ignoring important questions about what those rules should look like.
A brief history of basic income, the simplest plan to end poverty.