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A Columbia University public health instructor ranted to 400 incoming students about how the school’s prominent Jewish donors only made their gifts to “launder blood money” and denied the existence of ...

The Bureau of Economic Analysis released its personal consumption expenditures price index data for September earlier today. Here is the report, at a glance: Core YoY: 2.8% increase, in line with ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Here’s a test for infants: Show them a glass of water on a desk. Hide it behind a wooden board. Now move the board toward the glass. If ...