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How the Word “But” Could Save The World
(The post was first published at Scientific American Blogs.) Candidate Hillary Clinton’s speeches were less compelling than those of now-President Donald Trump. We all understood this. But I, for one, would stumble over my own words each time I tried to describe what made Trump’s speeches so much more effective. Fortunately, Randy Olson and Jayde…
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Pluto, Planet Nine and Other Backyard Worlds
(This article was first published at Discover, PLOS blogs, and the SciStarter blog,) Eighty-seven years ago, this week, Clyde Tombaugh was poring over a pair of photographic plates, hoping to change the world. He was staring hard into an arcane device called a blink comparator, which allowed him to rapidly switch from viewing one image to the…