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How Entomologists Use Insects to Solve Crimes | WIRED

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"Insects never lie. Insects are tiny witnesses," says forensic entomologist Dr. Paola Magni. On a crime scene, insects like maggots play a key role in determining time of death. Dr. Magni uses the learnings from these insects to give justice to victims.

Why you procrastinate even when it feels bad

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Explore what happens in the brain to trigger procrastination, and what strategies you can use to break the cycle of this harmful practice.

What's The Smartest Age?

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At what age are you smartest? Dig into how your brain development affects your skills at different stages of your life.

Why We All Fall Victim To The Dunning-Kruger Effect

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In an increasingly polarized world, it seems as if people are becoming more convinced of their own beliefs and less willing to contemplate other points of view.

Why the US Keeps Trying To Buy Greenland

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Professional slackliner Faith Dickey attempts things that plenty of us wouldn't dare try. How about traversing a slackline barely 2 inches in width across a canyon, hundreds of feet in the air?

Why can parrots talk? - Grace Smith-Vidaurre and Tim Wright

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Explore the specialized anatomy that allows parrots to talk, scream, curse, and recite facts like humans.

The Actual Reason Men Die First

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Because females often outlive males, behavior is often blamed - but there is a decent chance our sex chromosomes might be to blame instead.

Change Your Life – One Tiny Step at a Time

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Change Your Life – One Tiny Step at a Time

Combinations of 52 cards (52 factorial)

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Whenever you shuffle a deck of 52 cards, it is quite likely that you are achieving something never done before in history. The number of combinations is 52 factorial.

Truth Decay

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Trust is eroding, in part, due to the over-abundance of opinion-based content; we must all develop better tools and habits for consuming information to regain a shared understanding of what is true.

Why are eating disorders so hard to treat? - Anees Bahji

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Dig into the psychiatric conditions of eating disorders, and explore the complex effects they have on the body and mind.

Smart FBI Negotiation Techniques You Can Actually Use

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Wouldn't it be nice to be able to win any argument you may find yourself in? Don't miss today's revealing video that exposes FBI interrogation techniques you can actually use to give yourself the high ground in any confrontation!

Can you solve the human cannonball riddle? - Alex Rosenthal

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They call you the human cannonball. Your act involves flying through rings of fire, bouncing through a trampoline course, and catching the trapezist in the grand finale.

Can stereotypes ever be good? - Sheila Marie Orfano and Densho

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Explore the model minority stereotype, and discover how it became a label for Asian Americans and is used to enforce racial hierarchies.

Save the Troy Library "Adventures In Reverse Psychology"

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"The city of Troy, Michigan was facing a budget shortfall, and was considering closing the Troy Public Library for lack of funds.

Can you outsmart the slippery slope fallacy? - Elizabeth Cox

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Dig into the slippery slope fallacy, which assumes that one step will lead to a series of events that lead to an extreme— often bad— scenario.

The Problem With Life Expectancy

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In order to truly understand differences among animal lifespans, we need to stop thinking about a specific number and start thinking about a distribution.

Illusions of Time

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Your brain is a time machine!

Four Reasons Our Brains Suck At Pandemics

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You can read Bill & Melinda Gates' 2021 letter at http://gatesnot.es/3opAPWK​ Certain cognitive biases cause humans to make unsafe decisions in a pandemic, making a terrible disease even worse.

Online Friends vs IRL Friends - Which is Better?

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More people are making friends online than ever before due to Covid-19. Are virtual friends better or worse than IRL friends?

Most Spoiled Kids in the World

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Some parents spoil their kids with whatever they want, but when your parents are Nick Cannon and Mariah Carey being spoiled gets taken to a whole new level.