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The fertility treatment that gives people hope, explained in a comic.

Blame the Space Race (kind of).

It’s a common refrain: School is full of useless (if interesting!) lessons, but we learn next to nothing about how to manage our finances.

It’s true that many Americans lack basic financial knowledge, which is a contributing factor to the money challenges — high levels of debt, insufficient savings, poor investment decisions — that a lot of us face. But it’s not necessarily true that we never learned anything. Many of us sat through a few classes on money management. Читать дальше...

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Survey sites recruit respondents with the promise of a reward, which may lead to bogus answers. That doesn’t mean the data is unusable.

Francine McCarthy, center, of Brock University monitors core removal at Crawford Lake on April 12, 2023, in Ontario. McCarthy is a member of the Anthropocene Working Group. | Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post via Getty Images

The battle proves that time is political, any way you cut it.

Nvidia, founded in California in 1993, originally made chips mainly used for gaming. | Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images

The company you might not have heard of is now worth $2 trillion — more than Google or Amazon.

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GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic turn down the dial on our loudest desires — seemingly for more than just food.

Mark Robinson, lieutenant governor of North Carolina, speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland, on February 22, 2024.  | Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Robinson has denied the Holocaust, opposed women’s suffrage, threatened to use his AR-15 against the government, and more.

Jason Palmer, a businessperson, won the Democratic American Samoa primary.

A businessman and lesser-known candidate, Palmer wants to focus on “pass[ing] the torch.”