Tens of millions of voters disenfranchised by census data.
With more extreme candidates created as a byproduct.
Gerrymandering is one of America’s biggest problems, but here’s how Congress can fix it right now: trib.al/USOkgaa

You may not understand how complex census data is going to be used to disenfranchise voters…but everyone understands candy. So we combined the two into one voting rights story: trib.al/Gb5rGjv

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More than 80% of voters had no real say in who represented them in Congress last year. NBCLX Political Editor @NoahPransky says that’s a far bigger problem than any new voting restriction…but there may be an easier (bipartisan) fix. trib.al/Gb5rGjv

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11 Aug

Do you remember the ‘90s movie “Shazaam” that stars the comedian Sinbad as a genie who appears to a pair of kids to help them deal with a tragic time?

If so, Sinbad’s kids say you might want to double-check your memory on that one.
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But if you’re “absolutely certain” you’ve seen Sinbad in "Shazaam," you aren’t alone.

Sinbad’s son Royce Adkins said even “people the closest to us who know everything about our family” have sometimes second-guessed whether the movie exists.

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So how can thousands of people across the world all have the same memory of a particular event or occasion that never happened?

It’s the Mandela Effect, “a belief that specific details from the past are being altered or changed.”
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12 Apr

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It was a Tuesday in January and @fhurtado was on his "4th day of waking up in the middle of the night for an hour the way our ancestors used to."

Ok, cool...but, uh, why?

Good question.

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Why do we need 8 hours of sleep and did we always sleep that way?

Turns out, we didn’t.

“People in the western world...experienced what is referred to as a segmented...sleep,” said Roger Ekirch, a historian and professor at Virginia Tech.
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“Our sleep today is less than 2 centuries old. It's a construct of modernity. It's artificial,” said Ekirch.
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23 Feb

Imagine it's the 1940s and you've given years of your life to redesigning one of the most iconic hotels in the U.S.

Imagine it's then hailed by your peers as a modern-day marvel.

Now, imagine you're not even allowed to stay there because you're Black.
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That was the reality for Paul R. Williams, the architect behind The Beverly Hills Hotel and some of the most iconic buildings in Los Angeles, not to mention the homes of many of Hollywood's biggest stars of the 20th century
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But Williams' race presented a stumbling block.

His granddaughter, Karen E. Hudson said clients would get "there and stopped in their tracks because they didn't realize he was Black, and they were ready to back out."
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25 Jan

America has entered a pandemic-inspired baby bust.

Guess not even locking couples up and obliterating their social calendars could convince more Americans to have babies.
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Notice a bunch of your friends seemed to have gotten pregnant since the start of the pandemic?

You might be tempted to call it a trend, but several states that keep track of births in near-real-time recorded significant drops in Dec. 2020 birthrates.
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“This is a bad situation,” said Philip Cohen, a sociologist and demographer at the University of Maryland.

“The declines we're seeing now are… pretty substantial.”
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