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Note: This column was originally submitted and initially accepted for publication by an associate editor at the journal Science. After two months of work and nine revisions, it was spiked at the last moment by a senior editor.

Every decent science writer has, at some point in his or her career, been called a "corporate shill." It's a rite of passage.

There is something to reading the newspaper in the morning, with a good cup of coffee. I know the newspaper has changed, it no longer is paper, but pixels.

Humans are problem solvers. Though our species name is Homo sapiens (Latin for “wise man”), perhaps a better one would be Homo problematis solvendis (“problem solving man”).

It took me the usual three minutes to come up with these. Either 1) I'm really fast or 2) there is so much craziness out there that a stoned marmoset could have done the same job, and maybe in two minutes. I'd go with #2. 

Previous study has suggested that as the air temperature increases, so does crime.

“One question is always how things scale,” he continued. “There are certain types of businesses where they work better and better at bigger and bigger scales,” he said, pointing to big tech..

Super Bowl LIV is coming up this Sunday. Since our staff is located in NYC, DC, and Seattle, we have no rooting interest in this game. We just hope it's a good one.

Let's take a minute to talk about race. With the completion of the Human Genome Project, we have learned human genetic profiles vary from one another by 0.1%.

It took very little effort to come up with some prime material this week. Crazies Readers started sending me some nice material. All I needed to do was write a little summary and make a few snotty comments.