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The Simpsons' Secret? It's Written by Math Geeks
For 25 seasons, The Simpsons writers have been smuggling math onto Americans' TV screens. Author Simon Singh helps Ira decode the show's numberplay,...
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Speech Science: Tongue Twisters and Valley Girls
Drawing from research presented at this year's Acoustical Society of America conference, psycholinguist Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel untangles tongue...
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Would More Technology Mean Safer Trains?
In 2008, Congress passed a law requiring most rail networks to install "positive train control" collision technology by 2015. Engineering professor...
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Dissecting America's $3 Trillion Medical Bill
In "Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us," a 26,000-word investigative piece in TIME magazine, journalist and entrepreneur Steven Brill...
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China Shoots 'Jade Rabbit' Rover to the Moon
This week China launched its Chang'e-3 lunar lander, with the Jade Rabbit moon rover on board. BBC science editor David Shukman, who got a behind-the...
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