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People don't mate randomly

Richard Border, Noah Zaitlen - The Conversation
Residents line up at a drive-up distribution site to receive free at-home COVID-19 test kits on January 02, 2022 in Stamford, Connecticut. The Connecticut state government received some 400,000 tests over the weekend which were sent to cities and towns for local distribution. (John Moore/Getty Images)

Do at-home COVID tests work anymore?

Nicole Karlis
Positive Cassette rapid test for COVID-19 (Getty Images/Massimiliano Finzi)

The science of false positives

James C. Zimring
Wordle seen on a smartphone (Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

The best Wordle first-word guesses

Derek Horstmeyer - The Conversation
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Infusion tubes are seen at the bedside of an intubated COVID-19 patient in an intensive care room at the Asklepios Clinic (Getty Images/Matthias Balk)

We've lost the plot on ivermectin

Keith A. Spencer
Health officials carry a dead body of coronavirus (Covid-19) victim on a stretcher to container morgues by the Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York City, United States. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Why counting COVID deaths is complicated

Ronald D. Fricker Jr. - The Conversation
People celebrate at Times Square in New York after Joe Biden was declared winner of the 2020 presidential election on November 7, 2020. (KENA BETANCUR/AFP via Getty Images)

The classification of humankind

Thomas Moynihan - MIT Press Reader
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Why having fewer OSHA inspectors matters

David Weil - The Conversation
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Donald Trump (Getty Images/Salon)

Study: Trump's win was not a fluke

Igor Derysh
Miami Marlins' Christian Yelich hits an RBI single to score Dee Gordon in the first inning of a baseball game against the Seattle Mariners, Tuesday, April 18, 2017, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) (AP)

Statistics ruined baseball by perfecting

Edwin Amenta - The Conversation

Numbers in the news? Don't fall for this

Liberty Vittert - The Conversation
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Porn viewers not as violent as thought

Eran Shor, Kimberly Seida - The Conversation
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Trump's two-faced racism

Paul Rosenberg
Hurricane Harvey over Texas seen from the International Space Station (AP/Randy Bresnik)

Catastrophes in the Caribbean

Jay L. Zagorsky - The Conversation
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Bulls**t studies: It's yuge

Paul Rosenberg
(AP Photo/John Minchillo)

David Daley - FairVote
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Turnout + suppression = Trump

Sean McElwee
Jeff Sessions; Donald Trump (AP/Alex Brandon/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Trump's success story: Racism

Sean McElwee
Activists protest during the "March for Health" demanding equitable and affordable access to quality healthcare, on April 01, 2017, in New York. / AFP PHOTO / KENA BETANCUR (Photo credit should read KENA BETANCUR/AFP/Getty Images) (Getty/Kena Betancur)

Medicaid expansion: a winner

Sean McElwee
(AP/Reuters/Brian Snyder/Charles Platiau/Shutterstock/Photo montage by Salon)

High court, big money

Sean McElwee, Adam Lioz, Juhem Navarro-Rivera
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(Reuters/Lucy Nicholson)

Where do Democrats go now?

Matt McDermott, Sean McElwee
(AP/Mark Humphrey)

Voter registration is key

Sean McElwee
(Reuters/Brian Snyder/AP/Charles Rex Arbogast/Photo montage by Salon)

TrumpLand's victim myths

Sean McElwee
(AP/Damian Dovarganes/Reuters/L.E. Baskow/Salon)

Can Democrats win in 2018?

Sean McElwee
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