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How an ad campaign went so wrong.

How an ad campaign went so wrong.

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. It was the vocal fry heard and mocked ’round the internet: “Genes are passed down from parents to offspring, often determining traits like hair color, personality, and even eye color.” A pause, as a lounging Sydney Sweeney zips up …

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MIT Just Proved Einstein Wrong in the Most Famous Quantum Experiment – SciTechDaily

MIT Just Proved Einstein Wrong in the Most Famous Quantum Experiment  SciTechDaily Famous double-slit experiment holds up when stripped to its quantum essentials  MIT News MIT confirms Einstein was wrong in century-old light experiment  Interesting Engineering Like Superman, light has two identities that are impossible to see at once  Tech Explorist Niels Bohr defeated Einstein: scientists created a diffraction grating of «frozen» atoms that …

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Critics say Trump’s order on homelessness is the wrong way to deal with the issue

Critics say Trump’s order on homelessness is the wrong way to deal with the issue

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Leading Democrats and advocates for homeless people are criticizing an executive order President Donald Trump signed this week aimed at removing people from the streets, possibly by committing them for mental health or drug treatment without their consent. Trump directed some of his Cabinet heads to prioritize funding to cities that crack down on open drug …

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‘Ignoring hot flushes is wrong’: study challenges assumptions about perimenopause symptoms | Menopause

‘Ignoring hot flushes is wrong’: study challenges assumptions about perimenopause symptoms | Menopause

Almost 40% of women going through perimenopause experience moderate to severe hot flushes and night sweats but have no treatment options, new research has found. The study, published in the Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, explored differences in symptom prevalence by menopausal stage among women aged 40-69 years. More than 8,000 participants who self-identified as a woman completed the Australian women’s …

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Did ‘The Simpsons’ Predict the Coldplay Kiss-Cam Scandal? What People Are Getting Wrong This Week

Did ‘The Simpsons’ Predict the Coldplay Kiss-Cam Scandal? What People Are Getting Wrong This Week

The excitement over the recent Coldplay kiss-cam capture of Astronomer CEO Andy Byron just will not die. The newest wrinkle: According to posts going viral on X, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and probably Friendster, The Simpsons predicted this exact event back in 2015. According to a post from Megan Strickland on Instagram, The Simpsons Season 26, Episode 10, titled “The Man …

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We Might Have Been Wrong About Where Spiders Came From

We Might Have Been Wrong About Where Spiders Came From

Technically speaking, every living thing on Earth can trace its origins to the sea. Some of these earliest creatures crawled onto land, evolving to become many different kinds of animals and insects—including, scientists believed for a long time, spiders and their relatives.  A new study published today in Current Biology challenges the popular conception that spiders first emerged on land, …

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