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The Best Time to Break Bad News, Overcome Loss Aversion, and Coin Tosses Aren’t Random
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2019-01-30
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Measure Your Mindfulness, Male vs. Female Pain, and Why the Laws of Physics May Be Aliens
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2019-01-29
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Bacteria May Save You From the Flu, Red Steak Juice Isn’t Blood, and the Future of Encryption
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2019-01-28
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How to Change Your Personality, Why You Jerk Awake While Falling Asleep, and Ainu History
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2019-01-27
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Why Uranus Is Sideways, What Blinking Means, and “The Blood Countess”
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2019-01-25
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How to Improve Your Self-Control, Why You Shouldn’t Touch Your Plants, and Firehawk Raptors
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2019-01-24
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Become A CRISPR Connoisseur (w/ Synthego), Up-and-Coming Batteries, and Microsleep
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2019-01-23
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Wash Your Towels and Sheets More Often, Immortality’s Math Problem, and Australia’s Pink Lakes
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2019-01-22
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The Phantom Time Hypothesis, Cybersecurity Tips, and New Schizophrenia Revelations
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2019-01-21
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Are Women Colder Than Men? Plus: The Worst Year to Be Alive, and Heart Cancer Rarity
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2019-01-20
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You Can’t Taste a Drink’s Strength, Soda Can Explosion Taps, and Our Galaxy’s Weird Planets
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2019-01-18
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Achieve Goals with the Pareto Principle, How to Think Creatively, and a Simple Sleep Fix
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2019-01-17
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What to Tell Friends During a Crisis, the Deep Carbon Observatory, and Gravitational Lensing
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2019-01-16
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You Can’t (and Shouldn’t) Boost Your Immune System, Pupil Shapes, and CES 2019 Recap
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2019-01-15
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Get More Done with Timeboxing, Self-Created Peer Pressure, and the Pitch Drop Experiment
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2019-01-14
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Long Lines Are Good, Supernova Archaeology, Key Lime Pie History, and Pain Memory
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2019-01-13
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Andros’ Unexplored Blue Holes, Folie à Deux, and How Your Brain Treats Curiosity Like Hunger
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2019-01-11
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Exercising at Night Won’t Mess with Your Sleep, Tonka Beans, and Non-Genome -Omes
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2019-01-10
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Your Wounds Heal Faster in the Daytime, Only Tame Foxes on Earth, and the Peter Principle
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2019-01-09
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A Trick for Being Taken More Seriously, Messy Office Traits, and Human Domestication
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2019-01-08
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