The Atlantic
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[:eu]The Challenge of Fighting Mistrust in Science[:]
[:eu]Emphasizing the way scientific findings play out in people’s everyday lives could help.[:]
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[:eu]The Case Against Reality[:]
[:eu]A professor of cognitive science argues that the world is nothing like the one we experience through our senses.[:]
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[:eu]No, We Can’t Say Whether Cancer Is Mostly Bad Luck[:]
[:eu]How some media outlets magnified the problems with a controversial new paper[:]
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[:eu]Trump’s Immigration Ban Is Already Harming American Science[:]
[:eu]Iranian scientists have been a major boon to everything from Mars exploration to Ebola-fighting to advanced mathematics.[:]
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[:eu]Why Fractals Are So Soothing[:]
[:eu]Jackson Pollock’s paintings mirror nature’s patterns, like branching trees, snowflakes, waves—and the structure of the human eye.[:]
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[:eu]Decoding the Origami That Drives All Life[:]
[:eu]“Proteins are built to a precision that would make human engineers blush—every atom is always in exactly the right position.”[:]
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How 4-Year-Olds Learn Particle Physics
Some say apps that make learning fun are key, but what’s lost when all that learning is spent looking at a screen?
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Beautiful Waves of Giant Booty-Shaking Bees
Thousands of twerking insects move in unison to ward off predators and cool their colonies.
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The War on Stupid People
American society increasingly mistakes intelligence for human worth.