Articles filed under Washington Post
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Affordable Care Act has saved women more than $1 billion on birth controlJul 12, 2015 7:34 am - WASHINGTON - American women are spending much less money on birth control since the Affordable Care Act started requiring insurance plans to cover contraception, accordi...
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There's good news for well-off homeowners in the GOP presidential campaignJul 12, 2015 7:31 am - WASHINGTON - Republican presidential candidates are pushing a simpler, cheaper tax system. "We should make it so that for the majority of Americans, it should take 15 mi...
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Ex-Hill staffer aims to boost tech pipeline to Capitol HillJul 11, 2015 7:39 am - WASHINGTON - Travis Moore thinks Congress has a tech talent problem. Moore spent six years on Capitol Hill as a legislative and operations director in the office of form...
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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...