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Placebos for the drug-free…
From Futility Closet: In most elevators installed since the early 1990s, the “close door” button has no effect. Otis Elevator engineers confirmed the fact to the Wall Street Journal in 2003....
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“Veni, vidi, vici”*…
A young (and unshaven) Julius Caesar source In chapter 2 of his Life of Julius Caesar, the Greek historian Plutarch of Chaeronea (46-c.120) describes what happened when Caesar encountered the...
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“There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into...
Ratios of Democrats (blue) vs. Republicans (red). Data source: Campaign contribution data from the FEC. Just some of the occupations covered in Verdant Labs‘ “Democratic vs. Republican Occupations”...
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“If we desire a society of peace, then we cannot achieve such a society...
We use data from the Global Peace Index 2018 report, which tries to put a figure on the expenditures and economic effects related to “containing, preventing and dealing with the consequences of...
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