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/ 9 months agoHow AI and a popular card game can help engineers predict catastrophic failure – by finding the absence of a pattern
What mathematicians call ‘disordered collections’ can help engineers explore real-world worst-case scenarios. The simple card game Set illustrates how to predict...
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/ 9 months agoHelping children eat healthier foods may begin with getting parents to do the same, research suggests
Not knowing whether their children will eat the healthy food put on their plates, parents may prepare a less healthy dish...
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/ 9 months agoAbstinencia de la hierba: Más de la mitad de las personas que consumen cannabis medicinal para el dolor experimentan síntomas de abstinencia
La marihuana, aunque mucho menos peligrosa que muchas otras drogas, no está totalmente exenta de riesgos.
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/ 9 months agoSchools can close summer learning gaps with these 4 strategies
By targeting specific students, removing barriers and involving families and communities, school districts can make summer learning more accessible to students...
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/ 9 months agoAmazon, SpaceX and other companies are arguing the government agency that has protected labor rights since 1935 is actually unconstitutional
Nearly a century after the National Labor Relations Board’s creation, big corporations are arguing that it violates the US Constitution.
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/ 9 months agoExcessively high rents are a major burden for immigrants in US cities
The US economy relies on immigrants to fill jobs, but many of them are struggling with high rent burdens that make...
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/ 9 months agoGary, Indiana’s lawsuit against gunmakers is shot down by a new law, after surviving 25 years of appeals
Expect other states to pick up the civil-litigation torch.
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/ 9 months agoWhat is dirt? There’s a whole wriggling world alive in the ground beneath our feet, as a soil scientist explains
Rock dust is only part of the story of soil. Living creatures, many of them too tiny to see, keep that...
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/ 9 months agoI’ve been studying congressional emails to constituents for 15 years − and found these 4 trends after scanning 185,222 of them
In taxpayer-funded email messages to constituents, Republicans prefer visual elements and strategic timing, and Democrats prefer more text-heavy missives.
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/ 9 months agoIsrael’s ‘Iron Wall’: A brief history of the ideology guiding Benjamin Netanyahu
The destructive force that Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu has unleashed in Gaza is rooted in a century-old ideology that says overwhelming...
