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Who Is Winning The Fundraising Primary So Far?
Welcome to FiveThirtyEight’s weekly politics chat. The transcript below has been lightly edited. sarahf (Sarah Frostenson, politics editor): Monday night marked the filing deadline for first-quarter...
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Even Brain Function Tests Can’t Tell Us How Old Is Too Old To Be President
Joe Biden entered national politics as one of the youngest people to ever serve in the Senate. Today, at 76, he’s considering a run for president which, if he clinches the nomination, would make him...
View ArticleWho Owns The Dinosaurs? It All Depends On Where You Find Them
In early April, a paleontology graduate student, Robert DePalma, published a major find in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and hyped the discovery in The New Yorker. Locked in...
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The Loudest Places You Can’t Hear
Where is the loudest place in America? You might think New York City, or a major airport hub, or a concert you have suddenly become too old to appreciate. But that depends on what kind of noise you’re...
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Everyone Knows Money Influences Politics … Except Scientists
The Affordable Care Act gave Amy McKay a chance to do something she never thought would be possible. It had nothing to do with her health care. The only pre-existing condition McKay was worried about...
View ArticleCan You Unwrinkle A Raisin?
The questions that kids ask about science aren’t always easy to answer. Sometimes, their little brains can lead to big places that adults forget to explore. That is what inspired our series Science...
View ArticleScience Has A Sustainability Problem
Mauricio Urbina was trying to save the planet on the day he realized he was simultaneously destroying it. A biologist who studies the bodies of fish and other sea creatures, Urbina was working on a...
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We Can Predict Where Measles Will Happen. Why Don’t We?
At the end of February, a team of researchers submitted a paper to the medical journal The Lancet that predicted the top 25 U.S. counties most at risk for measles in 2019. Now, almost halfway through...
View ArticleWhat Questions Do You Want Answered About Climate Change?
We’re launching a new column, Climate Questions From A Grown-Up, and we need your help to make it happen. This is your chance to ask your biggest, smallest and/or most embarrassing questions about...
View ArticleHow Weird Is Andrew Yang’s Tech Policy? Only About As Weird As America’s.
Presidential hopeful Andrew Yang is famous for his plan to implement a universal basic income to help Americans who lose their jobs to robots. And that isn’t the only place tech innovation takes center...
View ArticleWe Don’t Really Know How Stressed Americans Are About Climate
The Midwest has been drenched by rain and beset by floods. California is bracing for wildfires after several years of record-breaking burns. Hurricane season is just getting into gear in the Atlantic...
View ArticleNo Terrorist Is A ‘Lone Wolf’
“How do we stop these people?” the president says, referring to immigrants and refugees crossing the southern U.S. border. “Shoot them,” a voice calls from the crowd. And the president chuckles....
View ArticleCan We Prevent Mass Shootings By Preventing Suicide?
Imagine a doctor who wanted to treat a broken leg with chemotherapy. Or treat cancer with a cast. Just because cancer and broken legs are both things that happen to the body doesn’t mean they call for...
View ArticleNo, Bringing Back Mental Institutions Won’t Stop Mass Shootings
I have a mental health problem. A couple of them, actually. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is the big one. I was diagnosed at 26 and take medication daily for that. I also have some mild...
View ArticleA Virtual Iowa Caucus Would Have Been A Hacking Nightmare
When the Democratic National Committee put the kibosh on plans for virtual caucuses in Iowa and Nevada, they may have pissed off the people who saw the event as a chance to give more people the...
View ArticleThe World Isn’t Ready For Climate Refugees
You can batten the hatches against a storm, but bureaucracy is harder to ride out. Last week, one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes on record made a direct hit on the northern Bahamas and stalled...
View ArticleHere’s The Best Place To Move If You’re Worried About Climate Change
This summer, we asked readers to send us their climate change questions. A lot of those questions sat squarely under umbrella topics we expected: how climate science works, what individuals can do to...
View ArticleWe’ve Been Fighting The Vaping Crisis Since 1937
Before there were vapes, there was sulfanilamide. One of the first great medicines of the antibiotic era, sulfanilamide was a miracle drug at a time when curing pneumonia with a quick trip to the...
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Why Partisans Look At The Same Evidence On Ukraine And See Wildly Different...
One man’s vandalism is another’s political dissent. Back in 2012, researchers from Kent State University presented survey respondents a hypothetical news story: A partisan political group has been...
View ArticleMedia Bubbles Aren’t The Biggest Reason We’re Partisans
Maybe you call it a bubble. Maybe you call it a silo. Maybe you just call it an echo chamber. But whatever metaphorical, narrow and enclosed space you prefer, there’s a good chance you’ve been told...
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