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Legendary scientist Reichard Feynman offered a simple but profound lesson about how we understand the world in a lecture at Cornell in 1964. The world, it is presumed, works perfectly well without us. How we think about it makes no important difference.

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At an Australian art museum, an after-hours tour requires participants' nudity. Would that fly in the U.S.? Why are some cultures more comfortable with nudity than others? When did humans start wearing clothes in the first place, and why?

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The Wisconsin recall election is heating up. John Nichols of The Nation argues that the RNC is putting more effort into the race than the DNC is — and that failure to recall the Wisconsin governor would be disastrous for Democrats.

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One of the issues in the election to recall Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker has been the number of jobs in that state — Democrats claim the number has fallen, the GOP says it has grown. John McCormack of The Weekly Standard looks at a new report which says the state gained more than 30,000 since Walker took office.

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As the financial situation in Europe gets worse, some experts have begun discussing the possibility of a Greek exit from the Euro. There's even a word for it — "Grexit." But Clyde Prestowitz of Foreign Policy argues that it's Germany, not Greece, who should consider making an exit.

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This week, ahead of its much anticipated initial public offering, Facebook raised the range for its stock price to $34 to $38 per share. Dave Granlund and Nate Beeler take a look at who will benefit.

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