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Nicole Karlis is an award-winning staff writer at Salon, specializing in health and science. She is also the author of the book “Your Brain on Altruism: The Power of Connection and Community During Times of Crisis.”

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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) waves to supporters at a campaign rally on February 21, 2020 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

At Bernie’s caucus eve rally: Why these Nevadans are betting on Sanders

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Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden (Getty Images/iStock/Saul Loeb/AFP/Salon)

At Joe Biden’s eleventh-hour rally in Nevada, many union members remain uncommitted

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Author Naomi Klein speaks at the Climate Crisis Summit before introducing U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) at Drake University on November 9, 2019 in Des Moines, Iowa. Klein and Ocasio-Cortez have been campaigning in support of Democratic Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders (I-VT). (Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)

Naomi Klein: Bernie Sanders’ Green New Deal plan is our best hope

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In this June 13, 2016 photo, members of Culinary Union Local 226 meet at their union hall in Las Vegas to prepare to canvass for Ruben Kihuen, a Hispanic candidate for congress. Half of the union's predominantly-immigrant members are Hispanic, and it has harnessed Sin City's housekeepers, cooks and janitors and turned them into an electoral powerhouse. (AP Photo/John Locher) (AP)

In Nevada, Culinary Union members make last-minute turnout push

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Janet Napolitano (AP Photo/University of California, Santa Cruz/Salon)

University of California President Janet Napolitano threatens to fire striking grad students

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A cart full of snacks sits near a mini-kitchen in a Google Kirkland building in Kirkland, Washington. More than 350 employees work in the Kirkland facility, which includes amenities such as a climbing wall, gym and soda fountain, and consolidates several offices throughout Kirkland. / Clarissa Redwine, 29, shows union buttons while posing for a portrait in Brooklyn, NY. Redwine and her former colleague, Taylor Moore, said they were fired from Kickstarter after starting to organize an effort to unionize, which would have been a first for a tech company of that stature. / Facebook employees play video games inside an arcade at the company's corporate headquarters campus in Menlo Park, California. (Yana Paskova/Stephen Brashear/Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images)

Kickstarter’s union victory signals a shift in how tech workers perceive their bosses

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Sharing a reusable water bottle (Getty Images)

How far would you go to save your favorite water bottle?

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Banner at the Culinary Workers Union (AP Photo/John Locher)

Influential Culinary Union declines to endorse a candidate before Nevada caucus

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A woman wearing a protective facemask checks her mobile phone outside a shopping mall in Bangkok on February 4, 2020. - Thailand so far has detected 19 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus believed to have originated in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, which is under lockdown. (MLADEN ANTONOV/AFP via Getty Images)

Quarantine and chill? The internet is giving quarantined people a social outlet

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Projected design for new student housing at University of California, Santa Cruz / Strike picket signs (UC Santa Cruz/AP Photo/Salon)

Santa Cruz graduate students striking for a living wage are met with threats and batons

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In this undated photo released by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows a dispersing wolf from the Oregon Pack OR-54, a descendent of the famous OR-7, the first wild wolf in California in nearly a century. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife says the 3- to 4-year-old female dubbed OR-54 was found on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020, in Shasta County, Calif. It's not clear yet whether she died by accident, naturally or was deliberately and illegally killed. (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service/AP Photo)

Endangered wolf’s 8,700-mile journey for love ends in heartbreak

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Hale-Bopp Comet behind the Very Large Array (VLA) Radio Telescope near Socorro, New Mexico. (Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Scientists pinpoint mysterious repeating radio signal from outside our galaxy

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Charcoal Toothpaste (Getty Images)

Why the charcoal toothpaste trend needs to die

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Tired bartender (Getty Images)

Trump says the economy is great. Millennials disagree

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Comet 67P/ Churyumov-Gerasimenko (ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team/Salon)

Comet chameleon? Here’s why this nearby comet keeps changing colors

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A large fracking operation becomes a new part of the horizon with Mount Meeker and Longs Peak looming in the background. (Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

Rust Belt residents aren’t as enthusiastic about fracking as the media depicts

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Shadow, Inc. / Caucus goers check in at a caucus at Roosevelt Hight School, Monday, Feb. 3, 2020, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik/Shadow, Inc.)

Meet the people behind Shadow Inc., the tech company that botched the Iowa caucus

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Gray seal (Halichoerus grypus) (Horst Jegen/McPhoto/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

Gray seals clap back (and forth): surprising footage reveals gray seals talking through claps

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Man shutting off alarm clocks (Getty Images)

Annoying alarm sounds really do make you more grumpy, study finds

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The IceCube Laboratory at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, in Antarctica, hosts the computers collecting raw data. Due to satellite bandwidth allocations, the first level of reconstruction and event filtering happens in near real time in this lab. Only events selected as interesting for physics studies are sent to UW–Madison, where they are prepared for used by any member of the IceCube Collaboration. (Felipe Pedreros/IceCube/NSF)

Bizarre neutrinos detected in Antarctica could open the door to new physics discoveries

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Platypus (Getty Images)

Why the platypus is at risk of extinction

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The Guardian / Coal-fired power plant (Getty Images/Salon)

The Guardian will no longer run ads from oil and gas companies

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The Infrared Astronomical Satellite, or IRAS, was the first mission to put a telescope in space to survey the sky in infrared. (NASA)

Two satellites just had a close call — but experts say it’s just a matter of time before a collision

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(NICOLAS ASFOURI/AFP via Getty Images)

American cities prepare for the worst as Wuhan coronavirus spreads

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