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A week after Donald Trump’s election, a thirty-year-old cognitive scientist named Maya Shankar purchased a plane ticket to Flint, Michigan. Shankar held one of the more unorthodox jobs in the Obama ...

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Even in teams stacked with stars, it’s often the glue players, the ones who make everyone else better, who determine success. What’s the science behind a Super Bowl win? A sports psychologist explains ...

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Is there a central concept that pervades and frames modern empirical natural science? Could a single idea weave throughout natural scientific inquiry and frame the essential fabric of our objective ...