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A decision-making process that relies on intuitive feelings rather than careful deliberation invites a host of biases that…
Most of us look forward to the fireworks on the Fourth of July. But did you ever wonder how the chemists create those colors…
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An anthropologist who's researched the dispossession of Native Americans and their enduring connections to ancestral…
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