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Luck

March 13, 2015 by Kaleb Horton 1 Comment

Note: the following is a fictional story. It was thoroughly examined for winking internet news cycle commentary and found clean. He believed that all creatures were born with a preordained quantity of luck, which was inflexible and dispersed at random. This explained most of the world’s problems, and so allowed him to never think about…

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Obviously It Is Bad Luck To Get Cancer

January 6, 2015 by Naomi Kritzer Leave a Comment

Let me just cut to the tl;dr: yeah, it still totally matters whether or not you smoke. There’s a new study on cancer risk that was published this week in Science. It does not in fact say that the majority of cancer cases are the result of bad luck — though that’s how C|Net reported…

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