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Science Is Winning the Tour de France Original

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By Matt Seaton
| The Atlantic
Listen1.0x 0:0015:37 Listen to more stories on the Noa app. For fans of the Tour de France, the word extraterrestrial has a special resonance—and not a fun, Spielbergian one.
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Science Is Winning the Tour de France

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By Matt Seaton
| buff.ly
For fans of the Tour de France, the word extraterrestrial has a special resonance—and not a fun, Spielbergian one. In 1999 the French sports newspaper L’Équipe ran a photo of Lance Armstrong on its front page, accompanied by the headline “On Another Planet.” This was not, in fact, complimenting the American athlete for an out-of-this-world performance in cycling’s premier race, but was code for “he’s cheating.” At that point, L’Équipe’s dog-whistling accusation of doping was based on mere rumor.
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A Happiness Expert’s Frank Advice for Joe Biden

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By Matt Seaton
| The Atlantic Daily Newsletter
Arthur C. Brooks, an expert on leadership and happiness, discusses the trap of staying on too long. But first, here are four new stories from The Atlantic: The Essence of Retiring Well In 2019, Arthur C. Brooks, a professor at Harvard who teaches courses on leadership and happiness, wrote an essay for the July issue of The Atlantic about professional decline: how to think about it and what to do about it.
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