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Nathan Straus: How Macy’s Jewish Magnate Helped The Poor With Science
The 1844 edition of the widely used schoolbook written by William H. McGuffey, “Newly Revised Eclectic Fourth Reader,” includes a dialogue about the difference between “true and false philanthropy”:Mr...
Earth Sciences
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How Do Scientists Know Climate Change Made A Heat Wave Worse?
When a devastating heat wave, hurricane, flood or wildfire strikes, people often want to know: How much did human-caused climate change influence this event, if at all?For many years, scientists could...
Life Sciences
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Major Genetic Weakness For Hybrid Breeding Revealed
About a third of the world's corn production uses a legacy hybrid rather than modern science and a new study finds that grain yield in intermediate-maturity hybrids could be plagued by a crippli...
Medicine
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Hospitals Should Stop Doing 3 Things To New Moms About Breastfeeding
In modern times, breastfeeding has become more culture war than health epidemiology. Activists have created nearly as much disinformation around infant formula as they have weedkillers and food colori...
Physical Sciences
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From Inspiration to Impact: 10 Years of Research on AI for Physics
I have been preparing a poster for the MODE Workshop, which will take place in the splendid location of Kolymbari, in the Greek island of Crete, from September 1 to 7. The poster is not about one spec...
Social Sciences
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The Tennessee Girls Who Won World War II
On this day in 1945, an atomic bomb on Hiroshima began the countdown to the end of World War II. Of the Axis Powers, Italy had surrendered in 1943 and Germany in April of 1945. Only Japan remained, bu...
