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Thanksgiving Week is one of the craziest but funnest of the year. It's the perfect American holiday: Tons of tasty food on Thursday, insane shopping on Friday, and lots of football to watch in between naps.

“It sounded like a good idea. If your fish population is dropping just spawn more in a hatchery and then deposit them back in their native waters.

“The bacteria Yersinia pestis, which causes the plague, is thought to be responsible for up to 200 million deaths across human history — more than twice the casualties of World War II.

“In short – being a denier is about your behavior, not your position or even necessarily your credentials.

This past weekend, we turned back our blocks an hour as Daylight Saving Time came to an end. Many people are sick of this, and several states have passed laws abolishing the practice.

What do you do when you have two expert opinions, one saying the probability is 60%, the other expert says its 80%? Even more perplexing, what if one opinion is likely and the other very likely?

“Around 12 million people were listening, most got the joke.

Steven Pinker is an excellent writer and thinker. Perhaps his greatest contribution to our national dialogue is his insistence, backed up by considerable research, that life keeps getting better and better.

“Effective dissemination of public health messages may need to focus on a few, powerful, easily understood, uncontentious pieces of advice.

Here's where we appeared in recent days.