ARTICLES
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A study at an assembly plant shows that most improvements occur during the first few weeks.
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Watching the Super Bowl brings people together. When everyone watches the game at the same time, what happens to our utilities usage?
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Car salesmen have a billion ways to dupe us. Here’s one way we dupe ourselves.
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According to social scientists, your friends don't really want a thoughtful, unique present. They just want a good one.
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As revealed by San Francisco's $20 million a year graffiti removal effort.
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How one startup is. . . wait for it . . . reinventing the wheel.
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This might explain why after you get a parking ticket you never think, "that was a reasonable expense!"
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We readily point out bias among the media companies that curate and analyze the world's information. We don't do the same for Google and Facebook.
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More and more children in America live with just their moms. Especially in African-American households.
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What drives the cost of textbooks up to $200 a pop? Do publishers make money on them?
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Acceptance speeches at the Academy Awards are a minute longer than they were 50 years ago. Despite the orchestra’s efforts to politely shoo them off.
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Wikipedia banned Congress's IP address from making edits in 2006, but has succeeded in keeping politicians' pages from being pure spin.
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Today, only 4.2% of Fortune 500 CEOs are women. But, if that number were reversed, it might be women that negotiate harder than men for higher salaries.
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So, it turns out that you can actually make nice looking charts using Excel.
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The do-your-parents-pay-for-your-cell-phone index of financial independence.
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Hollywood executives assumed Americans had better things to do during the summer than watch movies until the success of Jaws proved otherwise.
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Do couples that live together first fare better once married? Answering that question by the numbers gets tricky.
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Academia’s “publish or perish” culture incentivizes deceptive research practices.
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With all due respect to artistic integrity, if the only obstacle between the average starving artist and a platinum album was his artistic sensibilities, all music would sound exactly the same.
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