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Why Land on the Moon?
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Six years before the first Apollo mission, two scientists from NASA argued for manned lunar exploration.
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The Atlantic From the archives: In 1963, two NASA scientists made the case for a mission to the moon 5h
Humans Are the Scariest Predator
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The sound of people talking can terrify even top predators such as mountain lions, with consequences that ripple through entire ecosystems.
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The Atlantic The sound of human poetry—read through speakers—so disturbed fierce predators like mountain lions that they avoided the area it was playing in. This type of 'landscape of fear,' created by humans, can have cascading effects, reports 8h
When One Person on a Date Is Just There for the Free Food
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“I mean, if it’s dinner, I’m not going to say no, so that I don’t have to go home and cook.”
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The Atlantic It isn’t always easy to find love while dating, writes . Free food might be easier to come by. 10h
People Seek Out a Certain Kind of Person When They Are Happy
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Your mood might have a big influence on the type of companionship you want.
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The Atlantic There's a good chance your mood right now is telling you what kind of people you want to be around, writes 11h
The Nationalists Take Washington
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Prominent figures from Tucker Carlson to John Bolton gathered at the Ritz-Carlton to declare war on the conservative establishment and lay the groundwork for a new intellectual movement on the right.
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The Atlantic Prominent figures from Tucker Carlson to John Bolton gathered in D.C. to declare war on the conservative establishment and lay the groundwork for a new intellectual movement on the right, reports 13h
Can a Film Be a Love Letter to a Country?
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New movies from the writer-directors Lulu Wang and Diana Peralta explore complex questions about national belonging and communal responsibility.
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The Atlantic Implicit in two deeply personal new films is a delicate accusation: How much can your country mean to you if you seldom visit? on Lulu Wang’s “The Farewell” and Diana Peralta’s “De Lo Mio” 18h
The Economist Who Would Fix the American Dream
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No one has done more to dispel the myth of social mobility than Raj Chetty. But he has a plan to make equality of opportunity a reality.
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The Atlantic The economist Raj Chetty wants to do more than change our understanding of America, writes . He wants to change America itself. 21h
The World Is Getting a Pickup-Truck Emoji
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Thanks to Ford
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The Atlantic The most popular new vehicle sold in the United States—the pickup truck—will finally have an emoji of its own next year thanks to Ford, reports. It reveals how your phone’s keyboard is yet another digital platform where brands must compete 22h
Your Smart Toaster Can’t Hold a Candle to the Apollo Computer
Alexis C. Madrigal - The Atlantic 37h 6 tweets
Despite what everyone says about the power of modern devices, they’re nowhere near as capable as the landmark early NASA system.
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The Atlantic Think your smart toaster is more capable than the Apollo computer? Think again. reports on the underappreciated power of NASA's 1960s software engineering. 23h
California’s Wildfires Are 500 Percent Larger Due to Climate Change
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“Each degree of warming causes way more fire than the previous degree of warming did. And that’s a really big deal.”
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The Atlantic California wildfires have quintupled in size over the past five decades, an upheaval driven by climate change, reports. 27h
Am I an American?
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President Trump’s tirade against four minority congresswomen prompts the question: Whom does he consider to be American?
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The Atlantic "Is an American essentially white? I do not know. I do not know if I’m still three-fifths of an American as my ancestors were written into the U.S. Constitution. Or fully American. Or not American at all," writes . 29h
The One Color the White House Sees Clearly
David A. Graham - The Atlantic 30h 1 tweets
Treating whiteness as a yardstick for normalcy isn’t the same as being blind to color.
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The Atlantic "The claim of colorblindness is politically useful ... but Trump has a long and undeniable record of singling people out by race. He cannot keep the ruse up, and often the mask slips," argues 30h
Trump’s Greatest Contribution to American Politics
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The fight on the House floor about Trump’s racist tweets illustrates, yet again, how singularly unprepared Washington is for a president like him.
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The Atlantic The fight on the House floor about Trump’s racist tweets illustrates how singularly unprepared Washington is for a president like him, Todd S. Purdum writes 33h
A Potential Hidden Factor in Why People Have So Much Trouble Losing Weight
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A new study in mice points to how cell biology, not willpower, might be the root of yo-yo dieting.
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The Atlantic Conventional wisdom has long held that weight loss is a simple equation of calorie intake and energy expenditure. New research adds to mounting evidence that idea has been wrong all along, writes 35h
The Con Man Who Became a True-Crime Writer
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In his old life, Matthew Cox told stories to scam his way into millions of dollars. Now he’s trying to make it by selling tales that are true.
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The Atlantic Once word got out that there was a writer in the Coleman Federal Correctional Complex, inmates flocked to him to tell their stories. Read ’s profile of Matthew Cox, a con man turned true-crime writer 23h
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The Atlantic “I am an inmate at the Coleman Federal Correctional Complex in Florida,” Matthew Cox wrote to . “I’m also a true crime writer.” 36h
Can’t Impeach Trump? Go After His Cabinet.
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The story of William Belknap provides a way forward for Democrats.
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The Atlantic "Let’s remember that the impeachment power is not just for presidents," writes . "And there is more than enough evidence of high crimes and misdemeanors in the executive branch to fuel multiple impeachments of Trump appointees." 44h
The Moment That Made Neil Armstrong’s Heart Rate Spike
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Real-time data from the Apollo 11 astronauts, carefully monitored by mission control, capture the frenzied maneuvers that put men on the moon.
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The Atlantic "At a glance, an ECG is little more than black squiggles scratched on a page. But strung together, the lines and curves become vocabulary." retells the Apollo 11 mission through its crew's heart rates 48h
Trump Tells America What Kind of Nationalist He Is
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In a series of tweets attacking four Democratic congresswomen, the president reiterated his belief that only white people can truly be American.
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The Atlantic "Trump was stating his ideological belief that American citizenship is fundamentally racial, that only white people can truly be citizens, and that people of color, immigrants in particular, are only conditionally American," argues 57h
Revenge of the Power Grid
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Infrastructure doesn’t only exist when it fails.
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The Atlantic The Manhattan blackout is a warning for city dwellers everywhere: Infrastructure is at risk now more than ever, writes 59h
Trump Goes All In on Racism
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The president’s tweets are an invitation to a racial conflict that pits citizen against citizen, under the calculation that racism itself is a winning political strategy.
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The Atlantic Trump's tweets were "an invitation to a racial conflict that pits citizen against citizen, under the calculation that racism itself is a winning strategy," argues 3d