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This Easter, “Egg Math” Is the Only Form of TikTok Math I’ll Endorse

Andy Lyons/Getty Happy Easter! I’m not a particularly religious adult, and I have no kids, so I signed up for weekend blogging duty this Sunday....

31.03.2024 1

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No One Can Parody Donald Trump Better Than Himself

Last night, Saturday Night Live parodied Donald Trump’s effort to sell Bibles: The Easter-themed episode opens with “The Resurrection,” a story...

31.03.2024 10

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Let’s Not Take Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pills for Granted

Bettmann/Getty Last July, in a win for reproductive justice advocates, the Food and Drug Administration approved the first over-the-counter birth...

09.03.2024 7

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Confused Moths, Distracted Crabs, and Celibate Birds: How Pollution Is Screwing With Animals’ Senses

Mother Jones illustration; Getty There’s a laundry list of ways air pollution is bad for humans: It’s linked to cardiovascular disease and...

07.03.2024 7

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Watch Poland Debunk Putin’s Propaganda With This Powerful UN Speech

Russian President Vladimir Putin Contributor/Getty Things got heated at the United Nations on Saturday during a meeting of the Security Council...

26.02.2024 40

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Thank You, SNL, for This Perfect Skit About Trump’s Grip on Senate Republicans

As I watched Donald Trump’s South Carolina victory speech this weekend, I was struck by how many back-handed compliments he doled out to his...

26.02.2024 10

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Trump Claims His Mug Shot Wins Him Black Voters

Mother Jones illustration; Getty Donald Trump decisively won South Carolina’s GOP primary election against challenger Nikki Haley on Saturday, with...

25.02.2024 6

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A Love Letter to the “Pale Blue Dot”

Mother Jones illustration; Getty; NASA/JPL-Caltech On September 5, 1977, a 1,800-pound, ladle-shaped spacecraft named Voyager 1 took off from...

14.02.2024 4

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“The Eye of Sauron”: How Liquefied Natural Gas Terminals Torment the People Living Nearby

A flare burns at Venture Global LNG in Cameron, Louisiana. Martha Irvine/AP In a major win for environmentalists, the Biden administration announced...

07.02.2024 6

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SCOTUS Allows One of America’s Strictest Abortion Bans to Take Effect—For Now

Graeme Sloan/AP Idaho has among the strictest abortion bans in the country. It’s so strict, in fact, that in 2022, the Biden administration sued...

07.01.2024 5

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The Strongest Words in Joe Biden’s January 6 Speech Were Donald Trump’s

Ricky Fitchett/Zuma On Friday, ahead of the third anniversary of the January 6 Capitol attack, President Joe Biden delivered an impassioned campaign...

06.01.2024 6

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Mike Johnson’s Election Is Bad News for Imperiled Plants and Animals

The black-footed ferret has been listed as an endangered species in the United States since the 1960s. AP/David Zalubowski After weeks of dithering,...

27.10.2023 50

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Oklahoma Teachers Don’t Know If It’s Legal to Teach “Killers of the Flower Moon”

Lily Gladstone and Leonardo DiCaprio in “Killers of the Flower Moon." Apple TV After a screening of Martin Scorsese’s slow-drip drama Killers of...

21.10.2023 5

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Why Are So Many Studies Being Retracted?

Vito Ansaldi It’s been a hell of a year for science scandals. In July, Stanford University president Marc Tessier-Lavigne, a prominent...

17.10.2023 9

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The Disturbing Story of How America Saved the Buffalo

Mother Jones; Library of Congress; Unsplash If you attended high school in the United States, you likely learned about the “Great Slaughter” of...

06.10.2023 50

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We Need to Talk About Roadkill

Mother Jones; Getty As perilous as it is for you to ride in a vehicle, cars may be even more treacherous for wild animals on the road. “It has...

14.09.2023 1

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