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  • How to Vote for President When You Don’t Like the Candidates

    How to Vote for President When You Don’t Like the Candidates0

    How do voters select a candidate when no one they like is on the ballot? Behavioral scientists have studied decision-making – including voting – for decades. However, researchers usually give respondents at least one appealing option to choose from. This led us to wonder: What do voters do when they consider all of the options

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  • How to Turn a Lemonade Stand Into a Multi-Million Dollar Operation

    How to Turn a Lemonade Stand Into a Multi-Million Dollar Operation0

    • February 17, 2020

    When Mikaila Ulmer was four years old, she received an old cookbook from her grandmother. It was tattered and the covering was falling off, but the recipes were still intact. Thumbing through the pages, she stumbled on a mixture for flaxseed lemonade. “We tried making it, and it tasted really good,” Mikaila recalled in an

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  • How to Transform a Life Stuck in a Rut

    How to Transform a Life Stuck in a Rut0

    Has a New Year’s resolution ever made a permanent difference in your life? Maybe you stuck with it for the first week of the year. But dang it, January is cold. Some mornings it’s hard to just get out of your warm bed, let alone trudge to the gym, write a blog post, or meditate

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  • How to Tell the Difference Between Real Education and Propaganda

    How to Tell the Difference Between Real Education and Propaganda100

    The other day I ran across a passage from That Hideous Strength which seems oddly applicable to our time. A dystopian novel written by C. S. Lewis at the close of World War II, That Hideous Strength finds one of its main characters, Mark Studdock, working for N.I.C.E., an organization which pulls the strings in

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  • How to Tell if Your Kid’s ‘Fussy Eating’ Phase is Normal

    How to Tell if Your Kid’s ‘Fussy Eating’ Phase is Normal0

    If you have a child who is a fussy eater, you’re not alone. Almost half of all children will go through a fussy eating period in the early years. Rest assured, refusal of foods by young children is a normal stage of development. In fact, food fussiness ensured the survival of our “cave-man” ancestors. Preference

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  • How to Tell if Someone is Lying to You: 6 Signs to Look for

    How to Tell if Someone is Lying to You: 6 Signs to Look for0

    In an era increasingly described as “post truth,” classifying a lie is no simple task. Recognizing deceptive behavior, however, is another story. Pamela Meyer, a certified fraud examiner and self-identified “lie spotter,” says humans lie a lot. (In fact, a person is typically lied to between 10 and 200 times per day, she says.) But

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