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Robin Scher

Robin Scher is a writer based in South Africa. He is a graduate of the Cultural Reporting and Criticism program at New York University. Find him on Twitter @RobScherHimself.

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Obesity: America’s number one export?

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Plastic is probably harming your health—here’s how

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Cape Town is set to become the world’s first major city to run out of water

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Cremation is not an eco-friendly way to go — consider dissolving yourself

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Industrial polluters are silencing activists with new weapon

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Like Game of Thrones? You’ll love Game of Floods

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11 worthless foods to cut from your diet right now

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How high-cholesterol foods can ruin your sex life

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Listen up, guys: 14 foods that may help your sexual performance

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Approaching “societal collapse”: New equation shows how quickly humans are wrecking the planet

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This one common childhood experience can traumatize you well into adulthood

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9 things everyone should know about Ramadan

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Virtually everything America has taught us about breakfast is a corporate myth

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8 European right-wing parties celebrating the rise of Donald Trump

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The Sanders revolution is coming: More than half of young Americans now oppose capitalism

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Ted Cruz has doomed the GOP: There’s no escaping a Republican Thunderdome now

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Bernie’s miracle path to victory: Nate Silver crunches the numbers on a Sanders win

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The odds of your falling into poverty in America are truly sobering

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These are your Trump voters: 1 in 5 wish the slaves were never freed

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Capitalism is making us miserable: New global survey challenges the most sacred of free-market dogma

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