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/ 7 months agoWhat’s next for $25B supermarket supermerger after FTC sues to block it, saying it could raise prices
Turning two big supermarket companies into one even larger one could harm consumers and workers, the government says.
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/ 7 months agoHow educator Gloria Jean Merriex used dance, drills and devotion to turn around a failing elementary school in a year
A new documentary highlights teaching techniques of an educator who went the extra mile for her students.
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/ 7 months agoThe true cost of food is far higher than what you spend at the checkout counter
A new UN report finds that the true global cost of producing food is $12.7 trillion more than consumers pay at...
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/ 7 months agoMental fatigue has psychological triggers − new research suggests challenging goals can head it off
Setting specific, hard-to-reach goals seems to help people maintain motivation, while preventing them from feeling as drained by mental tasks.
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/ 7 months agoAnyone can play Tetris, but architects, engineers and animators alike use the math concepts underlying the game
People young and old love the classic video game Tetris. A working knowledge of the spatial reasoning concepts underlying Tetris can...
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/ 7 months agoGOP primary elections use flawed math to pick nominees
There are many ways bad mathematics interferes with our democracy. Assigning delegates is just one example.
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/ 7 months agoHow media coverage of presidential primaries fails voters and has helped Trump
In a general election, most people will vote for their party’s candidate. But in a primary, voters rely on media coverage...
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/ 7 months agoUS barrels toward another government shutdown showdown: 4 essential reads
Congress is again on the brink of a government shutdown only 3½ months after the last close call.
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/ 7 months agoBetty Smith enchanted a generation of readers with ‘A Tree Grows in Brooklyn’ − even as she groused that she hoped Williamsburg would be flattened
No other 20th-century American novel did quite so much to burnish Brooklyn’s reputation. But Smith rarely saw her hometown through rose-colored...
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/ 7 months agoWhere does lightning strike? New maps pinpoint 36.8 million yearly ground strike points in unprecedented detail
A new study shows how often lightning strikes and how it behaves, often hitting the ground with multiple strikes from the...