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    Matthew Crump, a psychology professor who discovered high volume cheating in his class…

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    Data Underload  /  firearms, mortality

    Among 1- to 19-year-olds, regulations decreased motor vehicle deaths, but deaths by firearms increased and became the leading mechanism in 2018.

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    The war in Ukraine continues, but the scale and objects appear to have…

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    Cindermedusae by Marcin Ignac is “a generative encyclopedia of imaginary sea creatures.” I’m…

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    Alyssa Fowers and Leslie Shapiro, for The Washington Post, used the stories of…

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    Sergio Peçanha and Yan Wu, for The Washington Post, used a combination unit…

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    The New York Times narrated the path to one million Covid deaths in…

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