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No, they’re not the wealthiest retirees — and they’re not the healthiest, either.

  • Sally Abrahms
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  • 1 day ago
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No, it hasn’t always been on the breakfast table. And sorry, it wasn’t always delicious.

  • Mark Essig
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  • Oct 30
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Is dark chocolate good for you? Did the candy companies create Halloween? Not exactly.

  • Beth Kimmerle
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  • Oct 23
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Can you be obese and healthy?

  • Kevin D. Hall
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  • Oct 15
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Was he a model leader or a genocidal overlord? Actually, neither.

  • Kris Lane
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  • Oct 8
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The raw data is undeniable. While women generally prefer men around their own age, men are most attracted to 20-year-olds, period. That’s why the Daily Mail calls straight women over 45 the “plankton...

  • Christian Rudder
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  • Oct 2
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Are they really a security threat?

  • Jill Goldenziel
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  • Sep 25
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Despite criticism of Hillary Clinton’s e-mail, what’s classified and what’s not isn’t actually so obvious.

  • Elizabeth Goitein
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  • Sep 18
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It’s run-down and crime-ridden; nobody wants to live there, right?

  • David Madden
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  • Sep 11
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Yes, he wrote the plays. No, he didn’t have such a huge vocabulary.

  • Ari Friedlander
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  • Sep 4
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They’re just so cuddly and docile, right?

  • Bill McShea
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  • Aug 28
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Air tankers dropping 11,000-gallon loads of blood-red fire retardant on flames look great on the nightly news. So do drones mapping a fire’s active edges with infrared cameras. But the boots-on-the-g...

  • Kyle Dickman
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  • Aug 21
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It’s not completely Hindu, and it’s not completely secular.

  • Andrea R. Jain
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  • Aug 14
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Popular depictions of coal focus on its polluting qualities: blighted landscapes, black lungs and smokestacks belching out toxic clouds that cause acid rain. News coverage of the industry typically sp...

  • Michael E. Webber
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  • Aug 7
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Did it really end World War II? And did it save half a million American lives?

  • Gregg Herken
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  • Jul 31
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July is hotter than August in D.C. And the humidity has nothing to do with swamps.

Despite what you’ve heard, they don’t have to keep swimming, and they do get cancer.

  • Xav Judd
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  • Jul 17
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Who really said “Let them eat cake”? And what actually happened at the Bastille?

  • David A. Bell
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  • Jul 9
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They didn’t want a secular nation, and they weren’t above partisanship.

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