Category: Society
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Public spaces aren’t always safer
The advice to meet strangers in coffee shops or public parking lots feels obviously safer. The actual safety math is more nuanced than the conventional wisdom suggests.
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The real-world cost: harassment, threats, and trauma for businesses falsely accused
Pizzagate didn’t end with a debunking. Comet Ping Pong, neighboring shops, and unrelated businesses absorbed years of threats — and many never recovered.
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Eyewitness memory and why contradictions aren’t what they seem
Inconsistent witness accounts feel like proof someone is lying. Memory science says otherwise — and the legal system is finally starting to catch up.
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The great maple syrup heist in Canada
From 2011 to 2012, thieves stole nearly $20 million worth of maple syrup from Canada’s strategic reserve. The story is stranger than the headline suggests.
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The humanities aren’t dying — they’re being killed by administrators
Humanities departments are being closed not because students don’t want them, but because administrators have made strategic decisions to redirect resources.
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PTSD is over-diagnosed and trauma is under-defined
Trauma has expanded as a clinical concept while PTSD diagnoses have grown — and the imprecision is starting to harm both clinical care and public discourse.
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The strange world of professional line sitters
Professional line sitters now wait for sneaker drops, restaurant reservations, congressional hearings, and concert tickets — for hourly pay. Inside the gig.
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Document Drop Disinformation: How Epstein List Hype Outpaced Reality
Public expectations of the Epstein document unsealings vastly outpaced what the records actually disclosed. Here’s the gap between hype and substance.