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A kid growing up in sunny, climatically pleasant Southern California may become a more outgoing, relaxed adult than a kid bracing against winter extremes in, say, the American Midwest.

People who live in mild weather are statistically more likely to be social, agreeable, open, and conscientious.
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Despite a range of valid concerns, bitcoin futures could actually help tame the unruly market

Despite a range of valid concerns, bitcoin futures could actually help tame the unruly market
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San Francisco is repurposing 80% of its trash in an effort to be zero waste by 2020.

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Airlines usually estimate the weight of their passengers. But a closer look at the data tells a more complicated story.

Airlines usually estimate the weight of their passengers. But a closer look at the data tells a more complicated story.
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This Sunday, the supermoon will have an encore and swing approximately 16,500 miles closer to earth than usual.

The biggest and brightest full moon of 2017.
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What started as a bet on Twitter by Tesla CEO Elon Musk is now a massive battery storing and dispatching power for South Australia.

South Australia just got 100 megawatts of lithium batteries.
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The most spectacular of her paper tricks are activated with a smartphone, like a planetarium that projects zodiac signs in a dark room with an iPhone’s flashlight

The book's most spectacular tricks are activated with a smartphone.
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The books don’t even need to be returned!

It's not a permanent fix, but who can resist free books?
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The guilty plea is likely to have brought satisfaction—perhaps even a certain schadenfreude—to Comey, who was at the helm of the FBI when the agency was investigating Flynn.

But let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
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"I never thought I would ever feel bad for Tommy Wiseau, the inscrutable mind responsible for what many have deemed the worst movie ever made, The Room. I didn’t think I would ever admire Wiseau either, but here we are."

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Outcomes for the popular kids are not good (via Inc. Magazine).

Outcomes for the popular kids are not good.
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There’s something different about the way I judge, and see, my therapy waiting-room cohort. I have nothing to forgive them for, but I forgive them—for tapping their feet or for turning their earphones up too loud.

When we are forced to see the people around us as multidimensional and imperfect, we can more easily accept and respect them for that complexity.
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Here’s everything you need to know about the former national security advisor’s guilty plea, Flynn’s promise of cooperation with the FBI investigation, and what it could all mean for Trump.

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A newly released independent report says the city and state failed to ensure public safety, did not allow the free expression of the counter-protesters, and did not properly facilitate the permit-holders’ offensive speech.

A newly released independent report says the city's response was "represents a failure of one of government’s core functions—the protection of fundamental rights."
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For the cost of cutting corporate income taxes, the U.S. could provide universal pre-K and make tuition free at public colleges for nonaffluent students (via The Atlantic).

For the cost of cutting corporate income taxes, the U.S. could provide universal pre-K and make tuition free at public colleges for nonaffluent students.
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