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Mar 30, 2026
If sugar were considered addictive, everyday consumption would be a different issue. In that world, longstanding assumptions about responsibility, risk, and regulation would start to...
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Mar 27, 2026
If sugar were considered addictive, everyday consumption would be a different issue. In that world, longstanding assumptions about responsibility, risk, and regulation would start to...
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Mar 13, 2026
Public goods create a peculiar dilemma: everyone likes the benefits, but paying for them is another matter. Economists call this the free-rider problem—people can enjoy protection,...
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Mar 6, 2026
A short newsletter item summarized a new Canadian study into a simple takeaway: toddlers who eat more ultra-processed foods tend to develop more behavioral problems. The statement is...
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Jan 21, 2026
A new social-science paper delivers a surprisingly unsettling result: give dozens of expert teams the same data and the same question, and you get a wide range of answers. Even more...
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Jan 6, 2026
Across four very different stories—Revolutionary-era smallpox, the still-mysterious ignition of the Black Death, a modern measles outbreak shaped by community identity and...
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Jan 5, 2026
Across four very different stories—Revolutionary-era smallpox, the still-mysterious ignition of the Black Death, a modern measles outbreak shaped by community identity and...
Mar 30, 2026If sugar were considered addictive, everyday consumption would be a different issue. In that world, longstanding assumptions about responsibility, risk, and regulation would start to...
Mar 13, 2026Public goods create a peculiar dilemma: everyone likes the benefits, but paying for them is another matter. Economists call this the free-rider problem—people can enjoy protection,...
Mar 6, 2026A short newsletter item summarized a new Canadian study into a simple takeaway: toddlers who eat more ultra-processed foods tend to develop more behavioral problems. The statement is...
Jan 21, 2026A new social-science paper delivers a surprisingly unsettling result: give dozens of expert teams the same data and the same question, and you get a wide range of answers. Even more...
Jan 6, 2026Across four very different stories—Revolutionary-era smallpox, the still-mysterious ignition of the Black Death, a modern measles outbreak shaped by community identity and...