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A New Idea for Fighting Climate Change: Retirement Plans!

Betterment is what’s called a robo-adviser: It offers consumers a few portfolios of stocks and bonds, then automatically shifts how assets in a portfolio are “weighted” for each customer’s goals,…

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The Golden State Killer Case Changed Policing, for White Victims

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The Golden State Killer Case Changed Policing, for White Victims

The media’s well-documented tendency to give disproportionate coverage to cases involving well-off, white female victims only exacerbates this effect. Reading the news, you might think that “young, pretty, white women…

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Great Blue Herons Build Nests Next to Their Predators

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Great Blue Herons Build Nests Next to Their Predators

This tactic may be helping great blue herons cope with the renewed threat from bald eagles. In British Columbia, coastal herons are a unique subspecies numbering an estimated 4,000 to…

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The Mink Pandemic Just Keeps Getting Worse

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Health & Fitness

The Mink Pandemic Simply Retains Getting Worse

Round 11 a.m. on a Friday in October, Poulsen obtained the decision he’d been anticipating for months. Mink in Medford had been sick, and it appeared rather a lot like…

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Jupiter and Saturn Are Just Showing Off Now

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Jupiter and Saturn Are Simply Exhibiting Off Now

Saturn takes longer than Jupiter to orbit the solar, so each 20 years, Jupiter catches as much as it, a phenomenon that astronomers name a “nice conjunction.” Some conjunctions seem…

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