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What Is Color Blindness?
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Are Lice in My Hair Alive or Not?        
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Why Do Things Fall?    
Yael Zoldan
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What Falls but Never Hits the Ground?  
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Why don’t your eyelashes grow as fast as your hair?
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“A groisse shkoyach. mamush, a groise mitzvah hot ir gehat”
C.S. Teitelbaum
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Make Room for Another    
Whenever Rabbi Whittow had to buy a new car, the Rosh Yeshivah told him to weigh only two considerations
C.S. Teitelbaum
Yosef Chaim
What a Great Mistake
Eyelashes grow until they reach their optimum length. Then they fall out and new lashes grow   Hello kiddos, This is Professor Mordy Maven, Thinker, Wonderer, and Figure-Outer of all things Science-ish. What that basically means is I try really hard to figure stuff out. I do the hard work so you don’t have to!
Shira Yehudit Djalilmand
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Yosef Chaim and the Time Machine
"What period in Jewish history would you like to go back in time to — and what would you do differently if you were there?!”
Shira Yehudit Djalilmand
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Decisions, Decisions 
Decision making is exhausting. What if I get other people to make them for me?
Esther Kurtz
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Just Like Moish
Could I adopt my husband’s habits for a week — and survive?
Esther Kurtz
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The Art of Asking  
 What is the role of the questioner in the process of aseh lecha rav?
Rabbi Moshe Walter
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Inbox: Issue 1090
“It’s up to us to stop enabling our kids to make stupid choices because we want to be the cool parents, or have the fun house, or the rocking simchah”
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Quiet People in a Noisy World
On Purim, Esther Hamalkah reminds us of the strength that lies in silence
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Everybody's Looking at Me
What triggers and exacerbates self-consciousness — and how can you overcome it?
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So why exactly do knuckles crack? And why do people seem to like cracking them?

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The thing about tickling is it’s actually only funny if you’re not expecting it

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Vegetables don’t make you cry? I’ll bet they would if you were chopping onions!

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