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By Emily Willingham The paper Grist highlighted constructs a Rube Goldberg-style house of cards that collapses when you take the most basic look at its data and assumptions.
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St Louis's Daniel Heggarty built this glorious, room-sized Rube Goldberg machine by slapping together interesting parts from the St Louis City Museum: "This room was constructed with the humor of Rube Goldberg cartoons in mind at th... Read Post

By Tom Laskawy New science suggests that the ubiquitous sweetener may interact with environmental factors -- such as exposure to heavy metals and pesticides -- to impact childhood development. Read Post

By Scott Rosenberg Grist's editor discusses the furor around last week's post about a study that sought to tie the U.S.'s most popular industrial sweetener to increases in autism rates. Read Post