Civics class may teach you that voters weigh the issues and choose the candidate who matches their positions, but several studies suggest that voters are not rational. They are rationalizers.

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This summer, British and Canadian researchers plan to test new technology for releasing previously unrecoverable energy trapped in heavy oil deposits. It works by stimulating tiny microbes to chew up the sticky, tar-like heavy oil and metabolize it into natural gas.

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