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With the potential repeal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act comes an opportunity for Congress to replace it with reforms that could dramatically improve health care by expanding choice, lowering costs, and improving quality. The discipline of economics can be of tremendous help in defining the contours of a plan that would accomplish those goals. It can also help predict whether any ideas from the vast array of proposed reforms can plausibly achieve these outcomes. Of the leading options under discussion... Читать дальше...

Serena Williams is the highest-paid female tennis player of all time, but there's a $40 million difference between her total and the top male's earnings.

Serena Williams is the highest-paid female tennis player of all time, but there's a $40 million difference between her total and the top male's earnings.

This week, we chat about 50-kilogram otters that once stalked southern China, using baseball stats to show how jet lag puts players off their game, and a growing link between pollution and dementia, with Online News Editor David Grimm. Also in this week’s show: our very first monthly book segment. In the inaugural segment, Jen Golbeck interviews Helen Pilcher about her new book Bring Back the King: The New Science of De-extinction. Plus Denise Tieman joins Alexa Billow to discuss the genes behind tomato flavor, or lack thereof. Читать дальше...

Up Close and Personal with Rising QBL Star Gareth Gardner. Interview by Gianluca Di Caro Photo courtesy of Queensbury Boxing League     For this edition of ‘Up Close and Personal’, the featured boxer is New Addington, Surrey’s top prospect Gareth Gardner, who is set to face Grantham’s Mickey Blackburn on the Queensbury Professional Boxing […]

In this week's news, we preview the Australian Open women’s final between Venus Williams and Serena Wiliams.

After decades of research, scientists have finally figured out why an LSD high lasts so damn long. That could help turn it into a therapy drug in the future.

With the 59th annual Grammy Awards set to air on CBS on Sunday, Feb. 12, we’re looking back at some of the nominated artists who’ve performed for Yahoo Music. Today, we go back to South By Southwest 2016, when bluesman Fantastic Negrito played acoustic at our Austin compound. If the ad execs over at Dos Equis ever want to recast their famous “Most Interesting Man in the World” campaign, they need look no further than Xavier Dphrepaulezz, aka Oakland-based bluesman and NPR “Tiny Desk Concert” contest-winner Fantastic Negrito. Читать дальше...

Cats and dogs don't have many things in common, but according to this study, their ability to remember events might be one of them. Here, the researchers tested whether cats could remember information from a single past event. To do so, the scientists first let the cats explore several containers, some of which contained food. Fifteen minutes later, when the cats returned to the containers, they spent more time at the food containers where they had not yet eaten, suggesting they remembered t

From the traditional to the twists, see Vogue's 11 favourite afternoon teas in London

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The Aussie Open is the Happy Slam, and it has held true to its name in 2017, producing a plethora of precious moments that kept fans smiling all the way through the first week.

Photographer Roger Eberhard wanted to work on a project about "standardised" travel. But it turned out that many city views were as anonymous as the rooms

Negotiations with Discovery Communications have broken down, and Sky says 13 channels could disappear on 1 February

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Is the modern welfare state still viable? Can it be reformed? Or do we need a new model that relies less on government redistribution and regulation and more on free markets and competition? In his latest book James Bartholomew examines welfare systems around the world and documents the strength and weaknesses of their approaches to poverty, education, health care, retirement, and other issues. Bartholomew offers a new framework for expanding liberty, while battling

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Boeing Blue, the new space suit designed for the company's Starliner capsule, is the most recent update to a linage of suits that go back to the beginning of the space age.

Meet Pamela Peled, Tzippi Shaked and Danit Shemesh, the authors behind 'Three Ladies, Three Lattes.'

Sheriff balks at political consultant’s light child-porn sentence High-profile political consultant Enrique Pearce hit a last-minute roadblock Wednesday in his attempt to avoid jail time in San Francisco for possessing child pornography: Sheriff Vicki Hennessy is balking at enforcing a portion of the agreement that Pearce cut with a judge to plead guilty in exchange for a sentence of six months of home detention. People convicted of child pornography, perpetrators of domestic violence and some... Читать дальше...