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British elementary school students believed an overweight storybook character was more likely to be naughty and less likely to have friends.
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Good advice from someone who is terrible at dating
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Positions on economic redistribution correlated with upper-body strength.
The modern birth announcement
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Understanding the case of an intersex child whose adoptive parents claim was robbed of his genitals, and of the right to decide what should happen to his body
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Resarch subjects were better able to will themselves into positive moods while listening to rousing symphonies.
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Write a show about a family man with an incurable neurodegenerative condition, and make it funny and not manipulative. Okay, go.
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The promise of delinking research and development from the actual manufacture of drugs, and why the pharmaceutical industry rejects an idea that could turn neglected diseases into profit
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Marijuana users had smaller waists and scored higher across several measures of blood sugar regulation.
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The psychology of lost causes
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Societal changes that help working mothers would be much more effective -- and much less expensive -- than telling women to postpone procreation.
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Non-smokers who stayed in non-smoking rooms had cigarette byproducts on their fingers and in their urine the next morning.
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