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Debra Reid / AP Endorsing Dead People Is a Shrewd Political Strategy
Races like Dennis Hof’s show that political parties often have plenty to gain and little to lose from backing deceased candidates.
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WCVB / AP Dozens of Massachusetts Homes Exploded. A Gas Expert Weighs In.
Investigators still don't know what happened, but there's one likely explanation.
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NASA Hurricane Florence Could Be the Worst Storm to Ever Hit North of Florida
Since records began, only 10 major hurricanes have made landfall around the Carolinas. This one has the potential to blow them all out of the water.
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Clodagh Kilcoyne / Reuters James Comey Continues to Argue With Himself
In an interview with Katie Couric, the ousted FBI director excoriated Trump for undoing America’s norms—but let himself off the hook for slipping out of the FBI’s.
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Yusuf Ahmad / Reuters Could Quantum Computing Be the End of Free Will?
On the fear that too much processing power will make us cease to be human
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Francois Lenoir / Reuters Can Sacrificing Privacy Stomp Out Disinformation Online?
One way to ward off bad actors could be more information sharing between social-media platforms, researchers, and governments.
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Courtesy of Robhat Labs A Web Tool That Lets People Choose Their Own ‘Sources of Truth’
Two 21-year-olds believe they have a way to bring consumers of unreliable news closer to objectivity.
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Horacio Villalobos / Corbis / Getty Reddit's Case for Anonymity on the Internet
The site’s head claims that the policy of not collecting personal information allows people to be “more true to themselves.”
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Tibrina Hobson / Getty Will Probiotics Ever Live Up to the Hype?
Changing your microbiome takes more than just swallowing a pill full of bacteria.
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Yasser Al-Zayyat / AFP / Getty A Linguist Explains Why 'Laurel' Sounds Like 'Yanny'
It’s the audio version of The Dress.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty The 13 Strangest Moments From the Zuckerberg Hearing
The first day of the Facebook CEO's congressional testimony featured a snubbed chicken chain, an aspiring teen Instagram star, and plenty of confused dialogue.
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Rachel Gutman / Katie Martin / The Atlantic A Grandpa's-Eye View of the March for Our Lives
He hadn't been to a demonstration since the early '60s, but the energy of the post-Parkland movement drove him to go.
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Julio Cortez / AP Who Is Weev, and Why Did He Derail a Journalist's Career?
A newly hired opinion writer for The New York Times called weev "a terrible person, and an old friend of mine." The rest of the world calls him a Nazi.
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Reuters 'America First' Is Straining Bill Gates's Optimism
The philanthropist still thinks the world is getting better. But he says pulling foreign aid from global-health measures would reverse that trend.
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Stephen Lovekin / Getty The Origins of Diversity Data in Tech
Tracy Chou’s call to action in 2013 preceded an industry-wide release of numbers.
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Noam Galai / Getty From Crack Addict to America's Most Celebrated Chef
Michael Solomonov was planting the seeds of a restaurant empire even as he was spiraling into addiction.
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Courtesy of Butterball The Butterball Turkey Talk-Line Is Ready for the Future
The most wholesome of help hotlines has embraced the digital age.
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Insung Jeon / Getty The Connected Vocabularies of Six-Month-Olds
Babies might understand language better than scientists thought.
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Larry Crowe / AP The Great Pumpkin-Pie Conspiracy
What counts as a pumpkin? A scientific investigation.
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Reuters Will Climate Change Make Rockslides Worse?
How a warming world could affect rockfalls like Yosemite's
