Articles filed under Washington Post
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Downward mobility: Where middle-class kids are worse off than their parentsOct 07, 2018 1:10 am - A team of economists led by Raj Chetty of Harvard University has released a massive new data set on prosperity at the neighborhood level in the United States. Called the...
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Last year's flu broke recordsOct 06, 2018 7:30 am - Flu killed and hospitalized more people in the United States last winter than any seasonal influenza in decades, according to new data released in September. It's the mo...
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Starting, or returning, to a fitness routine? Here are tips to prevent overdoing itOct 06, 2018 7:00 am - It's the fall, which means gyms, golf courses and sports clubs are full of new participants using the beginning of the school year as a reason to jump-start their fitnes...
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Review: The Apple Watch faces its toughest challenge yet: GrandmaOct 06, 2018 1:17 am - Is the new Apple Watch ready for Grandma? The Series 4 Apple Watch now in stores pitches itself as a Food and Drug Administration-cleared "proactive health monitor" and ...
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Introducing Sans Forgetica, the font designed to boost your memoryOct 06, 2018 1:09 am - A new font can help lodge information deeper in your brain, researchers say, but it's not magic - just the science of effort. Psychology and design researchers at RMIT U...
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How legalized sports gambling could create a new kind of fan experienceOct 06, 2018 1:09 am - Ted Leonsis was never a gambler. An entrepreneur, a businessman, a philanthropist, an investor - but never much of a gambler. So he's perhaps an unlikely torchbearer for...
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What's in new proposed Internet Bill of Rights?Oct 06, 2018 1:08 am - WASHINGTON - By July of 2019, Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., aims to see the House of Representatives pass landmark legislation shielding consumers from the onslaught of data...
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What does it take to be Wikipedia's MVP? 2.5M editsOct 06, 2018 1:05 am - Steven Pruitt has more than 2.5 million edits to Wikipedia articles to his credit. Yes, 2.5 million. That's a lot of editing to a lot of articles, so you'd understand if...
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Mainstream advertising still showing up on polarizing, misleading sites despite efforts to stop itOct 06, 2018 1:00 am - Jihadi rapists. Muslim invaders. Faked mass shootings. Pizzagate. Somebody browsing highly partisan websites in recent weeks could have seen articles about all of these ...
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Apple CEO Tim Cook: Giving up your data for better services is 'a bunch of bunk'Oct 06, 2018 1:00 am - Apple chief executive Tim Cook urged consumers not to believe the dominant tech industry narrative that the data collected about them will lead to better services. In an...