America's most dangerous jobs

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The Tongue Maps Wrong!

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Punishment in schools and racism

DALLAS – More than 200,000 US public school students were punished by beatings during the 2006-2007 school year, Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union said in a joint report released today. In the 13 states that corporally punished more than 1,000 students per year, African-American girls were twice as likely to be beaten as their white counterparts.

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Sexism in Today's Media

American Apparel

Sexist antics and union-busting cast doubt on American Apparel’s progressive cred.

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Monty Hall Problem

The Monty Hall Problem, named after the host of the long-running game show "Let’s Make a Deal," is a statistical puzzle that seems counterintuitive. A recurring deal on the show featured contestants choosing one of three closed doors, with a big prize behind one of them and something else, like a goat, behind each of the others.

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No Fat-E's

The new Pixar movie goes out of its way to equate obesity with environmental collapse.

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