Inquiring Minds
Each week we bring you a new, in-depth exploration of the space where science and society collide. We’re committed to the idea that making an effort to understand the world around you though science and critical thinking can benefit everyone—and lead to better decisions. We want to find out what’s true, what’s left to discover, and why it all matters.
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The Coyote Story
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Up To Date | Do Apple's Health Claims Check Out?
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How Sloppy Science Creates Worthless Cures, Crushes Hope, and Wastes Billions
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How Intuition and Reason Divide Our Politics
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Up To Date | Attention Is an Illusion; Ant Highways
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A Pianist Rebuilds Her Brain
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Up To Date | Monsanto Cancer Case and Kids Believe Lying Robots
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The Material That Will Revolutionize the World
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Up To Date | Google Glass Lives! and Breaking Dog Urine News
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Up To Date | How Plants Tell Time, Lab-Grown Pig Lungs, Stolen Fields Medal
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The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers
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Up To Date | A Lake on Mars, Dog Empathy, and TBI & the Military
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Revisiting Flint: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope
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Up To Date | GMO Acceptance, Elle Macpherson, and Friendly Fish
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How Neuroscience Is Redefining Athletic Genius
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Up To Date - Killing Cancer Cells and Exploring the Sunk Cost Fallacy (In Rats)
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Nikola Tesla: Inventor of the Modern
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Up To Date | Air Pollution and Diabetes, Large Scale Microbiome Studies, and Why...
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Aroused: The History of Hormones
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Up To Date | Longevity Pioneers, Leaky Methane, and Predicting Earthquakes
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Motherhood in the Animal Kingdom
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Up To Date | Mind Controlling Robots, Viral Alzheimer's Link, and Remembering Ko...
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Intelligent Machines Are Changing Everything
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Virtual Reality Is Changing Human Connection
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Up To Date | Don’t Eat Clay, Do Eat Dark Chocolate
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The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
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Up To Date | Where Happiness Comes From, and Why
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Why We're Addicted to Screens
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Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto
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Up To Date | Snail Memory Transplants, Eyes In The Back Of Your Head, and Treati...
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The Rise and Fall of the Cephalopods
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Up To Date | Pre-pregnancy Genome Sequencing, Mass Prescribing Antibiotics, and...
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The Rise of Deep Brain Stimulation and Its Forgotten Inventor
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Up To Date | Genetically Editing Fat Tissue, A Turing Test For Water, and Anothe...
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Losing the Nobel Prize
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Up To Date | Anonymous Study Subjects, Genetically Engineered Livestock, and Ast...
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How We Evolved to Have Free Will
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Up To Date | Night Owl Death, Space Launches, and Viagra’s Greater Purpose
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Creating Empathy With Immersive Virtual Reality
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Up-To-Date | Does It Fart?: The Definitive Field Guide to Animal Flatulence
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The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics
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Up-To-Date | James Webb, Shrimp, and Chilled-Out Monkeys
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The Neuroscience of How We Think
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Jellyfish Science
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The Politics of Rainforests
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What We Really Know About Gun Violence
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100% Renewable Energy by 2050
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The Broad Potential of Psychoactive Drugs
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The Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance
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It's Time to Rethink Ocean Conservation
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