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  1. Earth

    Once Upon a Lake

    As Earth warmed at the end of the last ice age, the immense volumes of fresh water that occasionally and catastrophically spilled from Lake Agassiz—the long-defunct lake that formed as the ice sheet smothering Canada melted—may have caused global climate change and sudden rises in sea level.

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  2. Math

    Election Selection

    By ignoring how voters might rank all the candidates in an election, the plurality system opens the floodgates to unsettling, paradoxical results when there are three or more candidates.

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  3. 19195

    This article says that women taking some kinds of over-the-counter painkillers are more likely than others to have high blood pressure.