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How to keep cakes moist and cause the greatest tragedies of the 20th century

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Lessons from psychology's original bad dude

Photo cred: my dad Some people get famous for discovering one thing, like Gregor Mendel. Some people get super famous for discovering several things, like Einstein and Newton. So surely if one person came up with a ton of different things—say, correlation, standard deviation, regression to the mean, “nature vs. nurture,” questionnaires, twin studies, the wisdom of the crowd, fingerprinting, the first map of Namibia, synesthesia, weather maps, anticyclones, the best method to cut a round cake, and eugenics (yikes)—they’d be super DUPER famous. But most people have never heard of Sir…

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