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The economics of pilgrimage: what happens to a city when millions arrive at once

Why certain languages are vanishing in two generations while others nearly dead are reviving

The invisible market that prices human life

The science of loneliness: why isolation is killing people and what...

What happens to your body when you are chronically stressed: the...

Why the fastest-growing cities in the world are almost all in...

How the internet changed the economics of attention — and everything...

Why educated people believe things that are not true

The underground economy that sustains half the world’s poorest countries

How colonialism created the conditions for today’s global obesity epidemic

How your ZIP code predicts your life expectancy better than your...

The science of infectious disease: why pandemics follow predictable patterns

The hidden arithmetic of immigration: what the research actually shows