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Why Is the CDC Trying to Block an Accurate Lyme Disease Test?
A good Lyme test would go a large way to ending the wars, because at some point in the debate one side is right and the other is wrong.
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Cut Off the NSA’s Juice
This is a struggle for power over what kind of future can be created for humanity; it's time to stop giving juice to Big Brother.
Not a Hacker or Whistleblower? Here’s How You Can Still Liberate Secret Documents
When there are documents that the public has a right to know about, we have a right to go take them.
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How a Famous 90-Year-Old Doctor Survived Hospitalization, but You Probably Won’t
Relman's account of his hospitalizations misses the haloing effect of his professional visibility and prominence.
The “Skills Gap” Is a Convenient Myth
When skilled slots do go unfilled, it's because employers seek high-value workers at discount rates.
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Science and Liberation: Science as Human Curiosity, as Authority and as Business
For a stabilized atmosphere, we are going to have to defeat some very powerful people and institutions in the process of liberating ourselves - and science - from the …
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New Study: Anti-Homophobic School Policy Reduces Suicide Risk – for All Students
Heterosexual males were half as likely to attempt suicide in schools with gay-straight alliances.
Haiti: Billions in Aid, Pennies in Progress Since Earthquake
Four years since its devastating earthquake, progress in Haiti is slow and reconstruction efforts are lacking at best.
“So My Daughter Won’t Have to”: Why Kelly Sue DeConnick Fights to Make Women Welcome in Comics
“I think we're seeing another wave of feminism today, a fourth wave characterized by intersectionality and the Internet.”
Rethinking Economics: From the UK, a Global Student Movement Takes Shape
An international movement began to demand a change in the way economics is taught.