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Don't Know What Special Districts Are? John Oliver Explains How They're Like 'Ghost Governments' Special districts spend more public money than all city governments combined. That's odd considering most of us don't know they exist. March 7, 2016 at 12:38PM

Ego depletion, an influential theory in psychology, may have just been debunked.

Ego depletion, an influential theory in psychology, may have just been debunked. The influential psychological theory of ego depletion, borne out in hundreds of experiments, may have just been debunked. How can so many scientists have been so wrong?

Don't Know What Special Districts Are? John Oliver Explains How They're Like 'Ghost Governments'

The Article of the day for March 8, 2016 is Ellen Wilkinson . Ellen Wilkinson (1891–1947) was a British Labour Party politician, Member of Parliament (MP) for Jarrow from 1935 to 1937 and Minister of Education from July 1945 until her death. In 1936 she was a leader of the Jarrow March, an iconic symbol of 1930s unemployment and impoverishment. On graduating from the University of Manchester in 1913, Wilkinson worked mainly as a trade union official, and was briefly a member of the British Communist Party before becoming Labour MP for Middlesbrough East in 1924. After losing her seat in the 1931 general election she worked as a writer and journalist before resuming her parliamentary career in 1935. A strong advocate for the Republican faction in the Spanish Civil War, she made several visits to the battle zones. During the Second World War Wilkinson served in Churchill's wartime coalition as a junior minister. By the time she achieved cabinet office in Clement Attlee's postwar...

Lily magnolia, also known as Mulan magnolia, Tulip magnolia, Jane magnolia and Woody-orchid. Ukraine, Vinnytsia.

Picture of the day on March 8, 2016: Lily magnolia, also known as Mulan magnolia, Tulip magnolia, Jane magnolia and Woody-orchid. Ukraine, Vinnytsia