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  • A New Dark Age: California’s Blackouts Are Self-Inflicted

    A New Dark Age: California’s Blackouts Are Self-Inflicted0

    California, the richest state in the nation—and one that’s often portrayed as the progressive harbinger of the future for the rest of the country – has been hit with its latest Third World-style disaster. On top of high poverty rates, skyrocketing homelessness, rising crime, and the return of medieval-sounding diseases, the state – specifically, the San Francisco Bay

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  • A New Blood Test Can Detect Eight Different Cancers in Their Early Stages

    A New Blood Test Can Detect Eight Different Cancers in Their Early Stages0

    Researchers have developed a blood test that can detect the presence of eight common cancers. Called CancerSEEK, the blood test detects tiny amounts of DNA and proteins released into the blood stream from cancer cells. This can then indicate the presence of ovarian, liver, stomach, pancreatic, oesophageal, bowel, lung or breast cancers. Known as a

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  • A Neuroscientist Explains Why So Many Children Can’t Read

    A Neuroscientist Explains Why So Many Children Can’t Read0

    By now we’ve probably all heard the statistics. Just a little over 1 in 3 American 4th graders are able to read proficiently. Unfortunately, that statistic doesn’t get better as time goes by. Consider the following statistics: 14% of adults can’t read. Only 13% of adults can read at a proficient level. 28% of adults

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  • A Natural Remedy to Treat ADHD

    A Natural Remedy to Treat ADHD0

    There’s no denying that ADHD is on the rise. In the eight years between 2003 and 2011, the number of ADHD diagnoses in the U.S. rose from 7.8 to 11.0 percent. But as the number of ADHD diagnoses has risen, so have concerns about the way in which ADHD is often treated. In essence, many

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  • A Nation’s True Test Comes After the Crisis

    A Nation’s True Test Comes After the Crisis0

    Perhaps it’s natural and understandable for most people to think that things like “leadership” and “character” are forged and evidenced in response to crisis. It’s quite apparent in the present moment that judgments about public figures are being shaped by how they’re handling the virus pandemic. Around the world, people are generally, if grudgingly, embracing

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  • A Nation Addled by Conspiracy Theories

    A Nation Addled by Conspiracy Theories0

    It’s become familiar to the point of routine. After a shooting, a bombing, a national crisis of any sort, partisans on both sides fling fact-free, post-truth conspiracy narratives at each other. Within minutes of any tragedy, there’s talk of setups, crisis actors, government patsies, and alternative plot lines so outrageous they would make a fiction

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