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A new study points to the influential role played by teachers’ unconscious biases, but it also highlights how powerful a little encouragement can be for children.

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Half of the members of the US Senate don't believe humans cause climate change. This is a national embarrassment.

Anti-vaxxers, your children don’t catch measles and then take it home like a jar of fireflies to enjoy alone or with a few close friends. Instead, they may unwittingly spread it to babies, people with certain medical issues, and a small percentage of the people who have done all they can to try to protect themselves but in whom the vaccine doesn’t work.

Last year, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' Science and Security Board concluded, "We can manage our technology, or become victims of it. The choice is ours, and the [Doomsday] Clock is ticking." This year, the board moved the Doomsday Clock to three minutes to midnight and added, "The probability of global catastrophe is very high, and the actions needed to reduce the risks of disaster must be taken very soon."

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We are all Roy Batty. All of our moments will be lost, like tears in rain…but weren’t they extraordinary moments?

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