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| The best articles from scientificamerican.com, according to Hacker News. |
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| 2014 | | A Learning Secret: Don't Take Notes with a Laptop (scientificamerican.com) |
| 589 points | 5 years ago with 238 comments |
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| 2013 | | Why the Brain Needs More Downtime (scientificamerican.com) |
| 436 points | 7 years ago with 106 comments |
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| 1863 | | Experts Doubt the Sun Is Burning Coal (scientificamerican.com) |
| 401 points | 4 years ago with 232 comments |
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| 2007 | | Coal Ash Is More Radioactive Than Nuclear Waste (scientificamerican.com) |
| 368 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 2003 | | How do food manufacturers calculate the calorie count of packaged foods? (scientificamerican.com) |
| 214 points | 8 years ago with 150 comments |
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| 2009 | | Forget Survival of the Fittest: It Is Kindness That Counts (scientificamerican.com) |
| 208 points | 8 years ago with 133 comments |
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| 2011 | | Have Fruits and Vegetables Become Less Nutritious? (scientificamerican.com) |
| 195 points | 4 years ago with 230 comments |
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| 2007 | | Cats Cannot Taste Sweets (scientificamerican.com) |
| 181 points | 5 years ago with 156 comments |
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| 2012 | | Why It Took So Long to Invent the Wheel (scientificamerican.com) |
| 160 points | 8 years ago with 155 comments |
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| 2018 | | Super Wood (scientificamerican.com) |
| 156 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 46 comments |
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| 2007 | | The U.S. Census Bureau Gave Up Names of Japanese-Americans in WWII (scientificamerican.com) |
| 149 points | 8 years ago with 83 comments |
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| 2018 | | When do we become unable to learn a language like a native speaker? (scientificamerican.com) |
| 147 points | 4 years ago with 183 comments |
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| 2010 | | Phytoplankton Population Drops 40 Percent Since 1950 (scientificamerican.com) |
| 138 points | 5 years ago with 64 comments |
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| 2008 | | Grass makes better ethanol than corn does (scientificamerican.com) |
| 128 points | 1 year ago with 164 comments |
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| 2018 | | Does Parkinson’s Begin in the Gut? (scientificamerican.com) |
| 124 points | 4 years ago with 57 comments |
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| 2008 | | Why don't we get our drinking water by taking salt out seawater? (scientificamerican.com) |
| 124 points | 1 year ago with 353 comments |
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| 2016 | | Ocean's Oxygen Starts Running Low (scientificamerican.com) |
| 122 points | 7 years ago with 93 comments |
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| 2011 | | Why Walking Through a Doorway Makes You Forget (scientificamerican.com) |
| 116 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 5 comments |
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| 2010 | | How the Gut's "Second Brain" Influences Mood and Well-Being (scientificamerican.com) |
| 116 points | 10 years ago with 37 comments |
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| 2011 | | It's Time to End the War on Salt (scientificamerican.com) |
| 114 points | 9 years ago with 71 comments |
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| 2019 | | People Drawn to Conspiracy Theories Share Psychological Features (scientificamerican.com) |
| 107 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 32 comments |
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| 2008 | | The Tunguska Mystery 100 Years Later (scientificamerican.com) |
| 94 points | 1 year ago with 74 comments |
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| 2017 | | Whales Keep Carbon out of the Atmosphere (scientificamerican.com) |
| 93 points | 5 years ago with 41 comments |
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| 1979 | | The Quantum Theory and Reality (scientificamerican.com) |
| 93 points | 7 years ago with 163 comments |
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| 2009 | | The Workings of an Ancient Nuclear Reactor (scientificamerican.com) |
| 90 points | 7 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 2010 | | Where did the Carter White House's solar panels go? (scientificamerican.com) |
| 79 points | 1 year ago with 126 comments |
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| 2017 | | How Much Air Pollution Is Produced by Rockets? (scientificamerican.com) |
| 62 points | 5 years ago with 63 comments |
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| 2017 | | The problem with being a top performer (scientificamerican.com) |
| 61 points | 4 years ago with 43 comments |
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| 2008 | | Why does organic milk last so much longer than regular milk? (scientificamerican.com) |
| 60 points | 4 years ago with 88 comments |
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| 2012 | | How Did Insect Metamorphosis Evolve? (scientificamerican.com) |
| 56 points | 6 years ago with 14 comments |
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| 2015 | | Economic Inequality Is Worse Than We Think (scientificamerican.com) |
| 53 points | 7 years ago with 98 comments |
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| 2009 | | Does Military Sonar Kill Marine Wildlife? (scientificamerican.com) |
| 53 points | 8 years ago with 9 comments |
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| 2008 | | Birth Control Pills Affect Women's Taste in Men (scientificamerican.com) |
| 50 points | 14 years ago with 13 comments |
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| 2007 | | Why is a minute divided into 60 seconds? (scientificamerican.com) |
| 50 points | 10 years ago with 31 comments |
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| 2015 | | Alien Supercivilizations Absent from 100k Nearby Galaxies (scientificamerican.com) |
| 49 points | 1 year ago with 101 comments |
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| 2007 | | Snake oil can be beneficial for arthritis and other conditions (scientificamerican.com) |
| 46 points | 7 years ago with 16 comments |
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| 1999 | | How does a logic gate in a microchip work? (scientificamerican.com) |
| 46 points | 2 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 2015 | | Why the upgrade cycle will never end (scientificamerican.com) |
| 44 points | 3 years ago with 48 comments |
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| 2015 | | Sarcastic comments boost creativity, a study finds (scientificamerican.com) |
| 42 points | 5 years ago with 17 comments |
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| 2013 | | The real world of compulsive hoarders (scientificamerican.com) |
| 29 points | 2 years ago with 21 comments |
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| 2010 | | Can a squid fly out of water? (scientificamerican.com) |
| 28 points | 3 years ago with 16 comments |
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