Turns out that the myth of the 8-hour sleep is a recent phenomenon–and that lying awake at night could be good for you.
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Get ready for the Bourdain stamp of approval on a new line of foodie books.
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Neiman Watchdog asks: Do politicians know anything at all about schools and education?
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A perfectly preserved 300 million year old forest discovered under a coal mine in China features trees with branches and leaves intact.
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We were totally OK with climate change until it started to affect our Shiraz.
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How to ask political candidates questions and get answers.
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What does a 55-gallon drum of sex lubricant say about the way we interact with Facebook?
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Dexterous robots toil at the bottom of the sea to safeguard the web.
Mandarin, Arabic, or Spanish? Of all the world’s tongues, what is the best language to learn?
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One woman’s brief, backbreaking, rage-inducing, low-paying time inside the online-shipping machine.
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