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Findings

Scientists found a strong correlation between a neighborhood’s liquor-store density and risky drinking among its African-American women; that among U.S. Internet daters, black men are much likelier to seek white…

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Video ergo sum

Oliver Sacks and the plasticity of perception

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A Roller Coaster, Dropping

Lynd Ward’s Depression visions

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Spoils of war

Excavating the underground trade in Buddhist antiquities

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Democracy 101

Mark Twain's farewell address

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Liberty or Undeath

From a December 20, 2007, deposition of Jacob Sternberg, who, along with six other people, was arrested and jailed in Minneapolis in 2006 on a charge of possessing “simulated weapons…

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Bad Intelligence

From internal reports sent by the FBI’s Office of Professional Responsibility, intended to “aid employees in steering clear of ethical pitfalls.” A selection of reports from the past three years…

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