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Here’s a paycheck for a McDonald’s worker. And here's my jaw dropping to the floor.

I’ve written tons of things about minimum wage, backed up by fact-checkers and economists and scholarly studies. All of them point to raising the minimum wage as a solution to lifting people out of poverty and getting folks off of public assistance. It’s slowly happening, and there’s much more to be done. But when it …

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A study has been following 'gifted' kids for 45 years. Here's what we've learned.

What can we learn from letting seventh graders take the SAT? In the 1960s, psychologist Julian Stanley realized that if you took the best-testing seventh graders from around the country and gave them standard college entry exams, those kids would score, on average, about as well as the typical college-bound high school senior. However, the …

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What will Earth look like if all its land ice melts? Here's your answer.

Land ice: We got a lot of it. Considering the two largest ice sheets on earth — the one on Antarctica and the one on Greenland — extend more than 6 million square miles combined … yeah, we’re talkin’ a lot of ice. But what if it was all just … gone? Not like gone …

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Here's Photos Of Zendaya, Timothée Chalamet, Florence Pugh And More Looking Like Fashion Gods Of The Known Universe At "Dune: Part Two" World Premieres

Not only did they understand the assignment — they deserved extra credit. View Entire Post › Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/mychalthompson/dune-part-press-tour-fashion