Articles filed under Washington Post
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You have 600 Facebook friends. How many will show up at your birthday party?Jul 11, 2015 7:37 am - At a time when Facebook friend lists run several hundred - if not several thousand - names long, it can be easy to feel as if we live in a world with enormous emotional ...
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Bumble, the dating app where women make the first moveJul 11, 2015 7:36 am - A few hours into my first conversation with a man on Bumble - a dating app where, after there's a match, it's up to the woman to say hello - I popped the question: "So t...
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App reviews: Star Chart, DuetJul 11, 2015 7:35 am - On summer nights, there's nothing quite like gazing at the sky and taking in the stars. But what exactly is up there? With this app, you can point your phone at the sky ...
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Do these 8 things and you will be more creative and insightful, neuroscientists sayJul 11, 2015 7:35 am - Tests of human intelligence show that as IQ, the measure of our analytical thinking skills, appears to be on the rise, creative thinking may be on the wane as our hyper-...
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Why we're so scared of GMOsJul 11, 2015 7:00 am - When Chipotle announced earlier this year that it would no longer serve food made with genetically modified organisms due to safety concerns, customers rejoiced. But the...
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What will happen to the Internet if Reddit shuts down?Jul 11, 2015 7:00 am - If Reddit went offline tomorrow, you would see immediate ripples across the Internet. First, and perhaps least importantly, traffic to porn sites would plummet. Later, m...
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Now that we can edit our genome, where do we go?Jul 06, 2015 6:00 am - Every human genome contains the blueprints for building a person, a library of roughly 20,000 genes that encode everything from eye color to cancer risk. Imagine if tho...
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Tackling the problem of childhood obesityJul 06, 2015 5:45 am - All right, parents, it's time for a change. Childhood obesity is a very real problem, and I've seen plenty of examples among my patients: a 4-year-old weighing 75 pounds...
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More Pell grant recipients have little or no savingsJul 05, 2015 7:42 am - WASHINGTON - A federal program for the country's neediest college students is witnessing a troubling trend: an influx of students with fewer resources to pay for school....
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An introvert's less-than-happy face is holding her backJul 05, 2015 7:09 am - Q: I am a 35-year-old woman. Throughout my career, no matter how much knowledge or training I have had, I have never been promoted or felt respected. It all came to a he...