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Wikimedia Commons Breakfast Cereal's Last Gasp
Better-informed consumers are ditching the bowls of sugar that were once a triumph of 20th-century marketing.
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Jasmin Awad/Shutterstock Inside the Podcast Brain: Why Do Audio Stories Captivate?
The emotional appeal of listening
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Internet Archive Book Images/Flickr Why Don't More People Want to Donate Their Organs?
Around 21 Americans die each day waiting for transplants. What's behind the reluctance to posthumously save a life?
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Burger King Japan Food Color Trumps Flavor
Why have Burger King's black burgers prompted such a backlash in the U.S.? Possibly because hue is even more important than taste in people's judgment of food.
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Nick Perla/Flickr Why Do People Believe in Ghosts?
Across the world, ideas of the paranormal persist.
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Ivan Alvarado/Reuters A Sociological History of Soccer Violence
How social and cultural rifts manifest themselves through sports—especially when fans identify intensely with their team
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Munkyeong Kim/Dreame The Ways to Control Dreaming
The science of lucid dreaming—in which the sleeper is aware she is dreaming—and how it could affect waking life
