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Opposites Don’t Attract, We Like What’s Physically Close to Us, and the History of Last Names
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2020-02-14
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How GPS Clocks Work (w/ Hugo Fruehauf) and Why Stress Turns Hair Gray
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2020-02-13
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The Academic Benefits of Emotional Intelligence, Atoms Split in Uneven Shapes, and Wolf Puppies Can Play Fetch
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2020-02-12
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A Reason to Reveal Your Failures, the Time Tulips Cost More Than Houses, and the Death of Planet WASP-12b
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2020-02-11
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Stanford Technique for Picking Creative Ideas, Why Whales Are So Big (But Not Bigger), and the First Medical Diagnosis and Treatment in Space from Earth
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2020-02-10
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Measuring the Deadliness of Viruses (Like Coronavirus), Why We Do the Potty Dance, and Depression’s Cousin “Acedia”
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2020-02-07
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The Invention of GPS (w/ Hugo Fruehauf) and Planning Cheat Days to Achieve Your Goals
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2020-02-06
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Criminal Profiling Doesn’t Work, Exoplanets’ Magma Oceans Eat Their Skies, and Superhuman Red Blood Cells for Drug Delivery
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2020-02-05
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The 13 Emotions Music Evokes, Surprising Things Pregnancy Does to the Body, and Solving the Tiny T. Rex Mystery
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2020-02-04
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Your Romantic Relationships Are All Similar, Why Cuttlefish Wore 3-D Glasses, and the Oldest Material on Earth
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2020-02-03
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Why Deadhead Logs Are So Rare and Valuable (w/ Kevin O’Connor) and Why Traveling Makes You Tired
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2020-01-31
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The Invention of the Two-by-Four (w/ Kevin O’Connor) and Common Mistakes You Make in the Shower
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2020-01-30
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Why Overheard Phone Conversations Are So Distracting, How Big Black Holes Get, and Why Anesthesia Is Risky on Marijuana
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2020-01-29
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You Learn Better from Success than Failure, Ravens Plan Ahead, and Absolute Zero Is Impossible
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2020-01-28
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Think of Sadness as a Person, Neanderthals Using Aspirin, and Cow Voices
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2020-01-27
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Earth Is Greener Than Before, Job-Matching with Your Tweets, and Why Blue Means Sad
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2020-01-24
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Most Lying Is Done by a Few People, Storing Vaccine History with Invisible Dye, and Emotion Words Vary Across Cultures
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2020-01-23
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Live Longer by Appreciating Art, Betelgeuse Might Go Supernova, and Birds’ Freaky-Fast Vision
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2020-01-22
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Saving the Ozone Layer Slowed Climate Change, the Largest Lifeforms on Earth, and Tips for Avoiding Distractions at Work
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2020-01-21
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Real Effects of Paying it Forward, Gorillas Humming Food Songs, and New Crowdsourced Exoplanet Names
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2020-01-20
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