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What Really Works to Keep Coronavirus Away?

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March 5, 2020

Proper hand-washing is the best thing you can do to protect yourself from a number of diseases ...

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African Grey Parrots Help Each Other in Times of Need

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March 4, 2020

Corvids – birds such as ravens, crows, and magpies – and parrots are considered to be special am ...

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Evolution: That Famous 'March of Progress' Image Is Just Wrong

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March 3, 2020

Many successful branches of the tree of life have stayed simple, such as bacteria, or have reduc ...

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Why Hand-Washing Really Is as Important as Doctors Say

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March 3, 2020

Washing your hands decreases the number of microbes on your hands and helps prevent the spread o ...

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Coronavirus Is a Breeding Ground for Conspiracy Theories

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Feb. 28, 2020

Conspiracy theories that claim powerful actors are plotting something sinister to do with the vi ...

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4 Ways to Protect Yourself from Disinformation

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Feb. 26, 2020

Even the most well-intentioned news consumers can find today’s avalanche of political informatio ...

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Why Do Christians Wear Ashes on Ash Wednesday?

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Feb. 25, 2020

Ash Wednesday is the traditional start of the Christian season of Lent.

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Why Do People Believe Con Artists?

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Feb. 25, 2020

The study of business history reveals that people everywhere have always had a sweet tooth for t ...

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The Census Goes Digital – 3 Things to Know

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Feb. 25, 2020

Digital responses would be cheaper to collect but would also likely carry significant risks.

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Americans are Drowning in a Sea of Polls

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Feb. 25, 2020

And what the reporting on polls doesn’t reveal is anything substantive about a candidate’s position.

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'Bee-Washing' Hurts Bees and Misleads Consumers

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Feb. 21, 2020

Bee-washing is a form of greenwashing, a description conceived by environmentalists to define a ...

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From Cow Pox to Mumps: People Have Always Had a Problem with Vaccination

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Feb. 20, 2020

Lies spread through social media have helped demonize one of the safest and most effective inter ...

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Out-of-Context Photos Are a Powerful Low-Tech Form of Misinformation

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Feb. 15, 2020

Have some healthy skepticism when you encounter images online.

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Coronavirus: How Media Coverage of Epidemics Often Stokes Fear and Panic

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Feb. 14, 2020

New contagious diseases are scary. They frighten us because they are unknown and unpredictable.

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The Five Pillars of Climate Change Denial

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Feb. 12, 2020

The fossil fuel industry, political lobbyists, media moguls and individuals have spent the past ...

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Our Image of Dinosaurs Was Shaped by Victorian Popularity Contests

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Feb. 1, 2020

Dinosaurs are so malleable that the constant reshaping of these popular animals has been driven ...

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Why the Race for the Presidency Begins with the Iowa Caucus

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Jan. 31, 2020

Iowans’ choices almost always end up matching the rest of the nation.

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Four Myths the Trump Team Promoted About Andrew Johnson

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Jan. 31, 2020

Vice President Mike Pence and Trump’s lawyers have resurrected distortions long since buried by ...

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Humans Are Hardwired to Dismiss Facts That Don't Fit Their Worldview

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Jan. 31, 2020

“Motivated reasoning” is what social scientists call the process of deciding what evidence to ac ...

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Does Impeachment Need a Crime? Not According to Framers of the Constitution

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Jan. 27, 2020

The framers understood that “high crimes and misdemeanors” included acts that may not necessaril ...

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