ARTICLES
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When appraising art, we often take a shortcut: an eccentric artist means good art.
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Six years ago, a San Franciscan built a speaker-equipped robot suit and strapped on his dancing shoes. The rest is history.
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A search engine that doesn't track your private data has been creating a lot of buzz lately.
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Economists show us how we undervalue options when risk is involved.
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You're more likely to birth twins than to click on a banner ad. Unless you're a guy.
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Where biking to work is fairly common, bike accidents are quite low.
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Academics can't decide if hot streaks and slumps are real or a superstition like wearing lucky socks on game day.
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Many are leaving other California counties to live in the City by the Bay.
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Chances are that some of your favorite tracks contain barely-recognizable bits and pieces of other songs.
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Bitcoin could be the future of money. But its pitfalls and perils resemble an old money transfer system called hawala.
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Is San Francisco's Dolores Park a paradigm of free-market capitalism?
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Why have economic concepts and psychology studies escaped from niche conferences and the pages of overpriced textbooks into popular nonfiction and media?
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Einstein once quipped that "a person who has not made his great contribution to science before the age of thirty will never do so." Is this true?
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Was George Washington reincarnated as Michael Jackson? Absolutely, says Frank Chu.
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Forgotten resolutions to get in shape subsidize gym memberships for everyone else.
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Researchers in developmental psychology face a formidable challenge: they need parents to sign consent forms allowing them to conduct experiments on their children.
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It turns out that a small tribe in Kenya is dominating the marathon circuit.
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Were pogs merely a trend that died out with the 90s? Au contraire: the US military now uses them as currency.
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Over a 14 year contest, the Wall Street Journal tested whether professional investors could do better than monkeys picking stocks at random. Results were inconclusive.
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It’s not just young people who are learning to use new technologies.
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Last year was considered a milestone for American women in politics. But on a global scale, our political equality is sub-par.
