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What is science? And why do we need it? In this episode of Crash Course Scientific Thinking with host @hankgreen.bsky.social, we explore how cognitive bias shapes the way we think about the world, and how scientific thinking can help us overcome it. youtu.be/d2r7Bk1NlgU
Introduction to Cognitive Bias: Crash Course Scientific Thinking #1
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January 20, 2026 at 11:17 PM
What is science? And why do we need it? In this episode of Crash Course Scientific Thinking with host @hankgreen.bsky.social, we explore how cognitive bias shapes the way we think about the world, and how scientific thinking can help us overcome it. youtu.be/d2r7Bk1NlgU
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It would be far less time-consuming to count down the number of times he accidentally told the truth. shorturl.at/j6eU3
CNN’s Daniel Dale Counts Down Donald Trump’s ‘Top 25 Lies of 2025’
CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale recounted 25 of Donald Trump's "top lies of 2025," although the journalist confessed it was hard to choose "only 25."
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December 28, 2025 at 7:49 PM
It would be far less time-consuming to count down the number of times he accidentally told the truth. shorturl.at/j6eU3
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How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very
From emancipation to women’s suffrage, civil rights and BLM, mass movement has shaped the arc of US history
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December 28, 2025 at 1:25 AM
How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Generations of Indian Dalits (formerly known as untouchables) have turned wild greens, foraged roots and overlooked ingredients into culinary masterpieces. Dalit cuisine is shunned—yet fabulous
From honeycomb curry to blood fry: India’s “untouchable” cooking
The hidden joys of a cuisine shaped by cruelty
econ.st
December 19, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Generations of Indian Dalits (formerly known as untouchables) have turned wild greens, foraged roots and overlooked ingredients into culinary masterpieces. Dalit cuisine is shunned—yet fabulous
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Belarus freed 123 political prisoners Saturday, including opposition leader Maria Kolesnikova, in exchange for relaxed sanctions on the country’s main export sector, according to state news agency Belta and the presidential press service.
Belarus releases Nobel laureate, former candidate, more than 100 others
Belarus freed 123 political prisoners in exchange for relaxed sanctions, according to state news agency Belta and the presidential press service.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 14, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Belarus freed 123 political prisoners Saturday, including opposition leader Maria Kolesnikova, in exchange for relaxed sanctions on the country’s main export sector, according to state news agency Belta and the presidential press service.
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🚨 BREAKING: It’s being reported that the CDC in the US is ending its experiments on monkeys! Approximately 200 macaques currently used in harmful research will be affected; future research on primates will also be discontinued. 🐵 🙌🏼
November 24, 2025 at 8:07 PM
🚨 BREAKING: It’s being reported that the CDC in the US is ending its experiments on monkeys! Approximately 200 macaques currently used in harmful research will be affected; future research on primates will also be discontinued. 🐵 🙌🏼
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The African experience of strongmen offers a warning to the world. However promising charismatic leaders may look at the start, big men eventually lead to big trouble econ.st/3IWocTw
Illustration: Ricardo Santos/Getty Images
Illustration: Ricardo Santos/Getty Images
October 10, 2025 at 6:00 AM
The African experience of strongmen offers a warning to the world. However promising charismatic leaders may look at the start, big men eventually lead to big trouble econ.st/3IWocTw
Illustration: Ricardo Santos/Getty Images
Illustration: Ricardo Santos/Getty Images
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Tonight I learned that one of my heroes has died. I loved her and colleagues' "adventures" as a child and grew up to admire her scientific work for so many reasons. RIP Jane Goodall.
Jane Goodall, wildlife advocate and primate expert, dies at 91 - www.reuters.com/business/env...
Jane Goodall, wildlife advocate and primate expert, dies at 91 - www.reuters.com/business/env...
Wildlife advocate, primate expert Jane Goodall dies at 91
Scientist and global activist Jane Goodall, who turned her childhood love of primates into a lifelong quest for protecting the environment, died on Wednesday at the age of 91, the institute she founded said.
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October 1, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Tonight I learned that one of my heroes has died. I loved her and colleagues' "adventures" as a child and grew up to admire her scientific work for so many reasons. RIP Jane Goodall.
Jane Goodall, wildlife advocate and primate expert, dies at 91 - www.reuters.com/business/env...
Jane Goodall, wildlife advocate and primate expert, dies at 91 - www.reuters.com/business/env...
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New EHT images show M87*’s magnetic fields changing: turning one way in 2017, settling in 2018, then reversing by 2021.
The flip may result from internal magnetic structure and external effects like a Faraday screen.
Credit: EHT Collaboration | Animation: Amy C. Oliver (CfA)
The flip may result from internal magnetic structure and external effects like a Faraday screen.
Credit: EHT Collaboration | Animation: Amy C. Oliver (CfA)
September 19, 2025 at 12:00 PM
New EHT images show M87*’s magnetic fields changing: turning one way in 2017, settling in 2018, then reversing by 2021.
The flip may result from internal magnetic structure and external effects like a Faraday screen.
Credit: EHT Collaboration | Animation: Amy C. Oliver (CfA)
The flip may result from internal magnetic structure and external effects like a Faraday screen.
Credit: EHT Collaboration | Animation: Amy C. Oliver (CfA)
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For these travelers in the world's red zones, the danger is the point
Meet the Travelers Who Visit the World’s Most Dangerous Places
Somalia and Afghanistan might not be at the top of your travel list. But for these travelers, the risks are dwarfed by the rewards of getting way off the beaten path.
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September 20, 2025 at 4:44 AM
For these travelers in the world's red zones, the danger is the point
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What we are witnessing is an outright abuse of power.
This administration is attacking critics and using fear as a weapon to silence anyone who would speak out. Media corporations — from television networks to newspapers — are capitulating to these threats.
This administration is attacking critics and using fear as a weapon to silence anyone who would speak out. Media corporations — from television networks to newspapers — are capitulating to these threats.
September 18, 2025 at 8:47 PM
What we are witnessing is an outright abuse of power.
This administration is attacking critics and using fear as a weapon to silence anyone who would speak out. Media corporations — from television networks to newspapers — are capitulating to these threats.
This administration is attacking critics and using fear as a weapon to silence anyone who would speak out. Media corporations — from television networks to newspapers — are capitulating to these threats.
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An early look at next week’s cover: "Remote Control,” by Barry Blitt.
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September 18, 2025 at 10:46 PM
An early look at next week’s cover: "Remote Control,” by Barry Blitt.
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“Even under pressure, I could not replace evidence with ideology or compromise my integrity,” former CDC Director Susan Monarez will say in her opening testimony to senators. “Vaccine policy must be guided by credible data, not predetermined outcomes.” www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...
WATCH LIVE: Former CDC head Monarez testifies on agency upheaval under RFK Jr.
Fired Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Susan Monarez will tell senators that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pressured her to endorse new vaccine recommendations before seein...
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September 17, 2025 at 1:35 PM
“Even under pressure, I could not replace evidence with ideology or compromise my integrity,” former CDC Director Susan Monarez will say in her opening testimony to senators. “Vaccine policy must be guided by credible data, not predetermined outcomes.” www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...
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There is no genetic or biological basis for dividing the human race into distinct “races.”
Racism isn’t innate – here are five psychological stages that may lead to it
There is no genetic or biological basis for dividing the human race into distinct “races.”
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September 16, 2025 at 5:26 AM
There is no genetic or biological basis for dividing the human race into distinct “races.”
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Bless all the people who ripped RFK Jr. a new asshole today.
September 5, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Bless all the people who ripped RFK Jr. a new asshole today.
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Thomas Deininger uses plastic waste to create sculptures,or should I say,works of Genius!!!!!!
August 23, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Thomas Deininger uses plastic waste to create sculptures,or should I say,works of Genius!!!!!!
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The Corporation for Public Broadcasting said Friday that it would shut down next year, effectively ending its half-century role as a backer of NPR, PBS, and local radio and TV stations across the U.S.
Corporation for Public Broadcasting Will Shut Down
The company is among the first casualties of a vote to strip roughly $500 million in federal funding from NPR, PBS and local stations across the country.
nyti.ms
August 2, 2025 at 12:00 AM
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting said Friday that it would shut down next year, effectively ending its half-century role as a backer of NPR, PBS, and local radio and TV stations across the U.S.
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Changes in diet drove physical evolution in early humans www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
Changes in diet drove physical evolution in early humans
A Dartmouth-led study shows that early humans developed a taste for grassy carbohydrate-rich plants 700,000 years before they evolved the ideal teeth to chew the tougher plant fibers efficiently. The ...
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August 1, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Changes in diet drove physical evolution in early humans www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
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The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which has distributed federal funds to both PBS and NPR for decades, announced Friday that it's shutting down.
The news comes after President Donald Trump recently clawed back more than a billion dollars of funding for public broadcasting.
The news comes after President Donald Trump recently clawed back more than a billion dollars of funding for public broadcasting.
August 1, 2025 at 11:26 PM
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which has distributed federal funds to both PBS and NPR for decades, announced Friday that it's shutting down.
The news comes after President Donald Trump recently clawed back more than a billion dollars of funding for public broadcasting.
The news comes after President Donald Trump recently clawed back more than a billion dollars of funding for public broadcasting.
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They steal your iPhone so they can trade it back to you. For a mango.
Inside the criminal enterprise that's run by monkeys. https://on.wsj.com/457yMzv
Inside the criminal enterprise that's run by monkeys. https://on.wsj.com/457yMzv
The Criminal Enterprise Run by Monkeys
A cabal of furry thieves snatch iPhones and other valuables from visitors to a temple in Bali–and trade them for mangos
on.wsj.com
August 1, 2025 at 4:10 AM
They steal your iPhone so they can trade it back to you. For a mango.
Inside the criminal enterprise that's run by monkeys. https://on.wsj.com/457yMzv
Inside the criminal enterprise that's run by monkeys. https://on.wsj.com/457yMzv
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Conservation has always focused on the most threatened species
But what keeps our planet habitable is functioning ecosystems
Since society refuses to properly fund an ark, and it's an emergency, that needs a rethink
Maybe we need to save the game, not the players
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
But what keeps our planet habitable is functioning ecosystems
Since society refuses to properly fund an ark, and it's an emergency, that needs a rethink
Maybe we need to save the game, not the players
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Biodiversity conservation requires integration of species-centric and process-based strategies | PNAS
Conservation science and policy are geared primarily toward the preservation of species
and habitats, with priority often given to the rarest, most...
www.pnas.org
July 29, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Conservation has always focused on the most threatened species
But what keeps our planet habitable is functioning ecosystems
Since society refuses to properly fund an ark, and it's an emergency, that needs a rethink
Maybe we need to save the game, not the players
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
But what keeps our planet habitable is functioning ecosystems
Since society refuses to properly fund an ark, and it's an emergency, that needs a rethink
Maybe we need to save the game, not the players
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Gaza faces a severe humanitarian crisis as Israeli restrictions on aid lead to widespread malnutrition and starvation, with hospitals overwhelmed by malnourished children.
Mass starvation stalks Gaza as deaths from hunger rise
Aid agencies warned for months that Israel’s harsh limits on food aid would bring acute malnutrition and widespread suffering to Gaza’s 2.1 million people.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 24, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Gaza faces a severe humanitarian crisis as Israeli restrictions on aid lead to widespread malnutrition and starvation, with hospitals overwhelmed by malnourished children.
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Breaking News: The EPA is said to have drafted a plan that would end its ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.
E.P.A. Is Said to Draft a Plan to End Its Ability to Fight Climate Change
According to two people familiar with the draft, it would eliminate the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse-gas emissions threaten human life by dangerously warming the planet.
trib.al
July 23, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Breaking News: The EPA is said to have drafted a plan that would end its ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.
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Around the globe, from Yemen to Ukraine, water is increasingly being used as a tool of control.
The World Is Entering a Dark New Era of Hydroterrorism
International institutions need to start treating water as a national security flashpoint.
foreignpolicy.com
July 20, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Around the globe, from Yemen to Ukraine, water is increasingly being used as a tool of control.
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Callers to 988 used to be able to press 3 to reach counselors specially trained to help LGBTQ+ young people. The service had been reaching 70,000 people a month.
Trump administration ends 988 Lifeline's special service for LGBTQ+ young people
Callers to 988 used to be able to press 3 to reach counselors specially trained to help LGBTQ+ young people. The service had been reaching 70,000 people a month.
n.pr
July 21, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Callers to 988 used to be able to press 3 to reach counselors specially trained to help LGBTQ+ young people. The service had been reaching 70,000 people a month.