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Scientific American: Mean people are so gay

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A new study finds some of the most virulent homophobes to be closeted gays.
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Do 1 in 4 college kids really need anti-depressants?

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In a recent survey, 1 in 4 Kenyon students were on anti-depressants, and 1 in 3 used ADHD drugs as “study aids.”
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Big Banks get subsidy of $780bn, equal to entire “stimulus” bill, every year

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$780bn is almost the exact cost of the entire 2009 economic stimulus: $787bn. But banks get it every year.
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Do mummies’ clogged arteries cast doubt on “dangers” of modern diet?

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We were always told our problem was our fatty “modern” diet – what if it’s really our genes?
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One slice of bacon a day might kill you

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My bologna has a first name, it’s S-A-T-A-N.
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Honey, I shrunk the bigots

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Opposition to gay marriage shrinking. Old people, white evangelicals & white uneducated are final holdouts.
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Republicans quite literally think differently than we do

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Our political differences are derived from real, and often intractable, differences in how we think.
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84% of world’s fish not safe to eat more than once a month

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I’m not sure how happy I am eating something that’s so poisonous you can only eat one serving per month.
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Keystone Pipeline study: We must kill the environment to save it

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The Koch brothers will be the big winners with this eventual cave-in by the President.
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Where you vote – at a school, or a church – affects “how” you vote

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Studies show that if you vote in a school you’re more likely to support school funding issues on the ballot.
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