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Why unelected power brings us a strange comfort
Why do voters accept leaders who reach power without a vote? The answer lies in the psychology of legitimacy.
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Consciousness: how ‘working memory’ may mysteriously give rise to it
The ‘doorway effect’ suggests that when information is removed from working memory, it immediately seems to leave consciousness.
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Supreme Court ruling in Trump v. Slaughter turbocharges presidential power
The high court’s ruling effectively endorses the unitary executive theory, greatly expanding the power of the president.
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UK plans conversion ‘therapy’ ban – what the draft legislation says
The draft bill would ban ‘abusive’ conversion practices.
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How oil turned the motors of capitalism: a history
The story of oil is focused on the US. But our oil-centred world was made through wider global relations.
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Prehistoric plague could have caused population collapse in stone age Europe
A new study reveals that plague was lethal thousands of years ago, during the Neolithic.
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Food noise: why thoughts about eating aren’t always something to be feared
Strategies to reduce harmful thoughts about food that are persistent, intrusive and distressing can help people better cope with “food noise.”
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The world has the science to transform food systems. The next frontier is scaling it
Solutions for food systems exist; scaling them is where the challenge lies.
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Research about global fishing shows value of detailed environmental data, which the Trump administration seeks to limit
Detailed data is useful for understanding and addressing environmental effects on people’s lives in ways that become difficult or impossible if only the broadest and blurriest picture is developed.
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500 years ago, the first New Testament in English was published – and stirred up a hornet’s nest
William Tyndale’s translation, published in 1526, was based on a then-radical idea: Anyone should be able to read the Bible in their own language.
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Muslims were part of America’s story long before the republic began
Muslims were woven into both America’s founding population and its labor force, writes a scholar of Islam on the nation’s 250th anniversary.
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Supreme Court rules your cellphone location data is protected by the Fourth Amendment
Geofencing warrants, which round up the location data of everyone in a specific place at a specific time, are now legally subject to Fourth Amendment protections.