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• Who Does That Job?Three groups run the country. Who does what?
• Who Fixes It?Something's broken. Who do you tell?
• True, or Just Feels True?Some things you can check. Some things are just how someone feels.
• Money In, Money OutYour bracelet stand made money. But how much did you really KEEP?
• Fair RulesFive old rules that still protect you today.
• Whose Words?Famous American words — but where were they written?
• Word BuilderWords are made of sounds — sort them into their families.
• Who Made This?Everything on a screen was made by a person who wanted something.
• What Is the Machine Doing?It is predicting the next words. It is not looking anything up.
• How Many Is That?Some amounts you see. Some you have to count. Knowing which is which is the start of number.
• Sounds FirstBefore letters do anything, you have to hear the pieces inside a word.
• Who Says So?Two questions, before any verdict: who says so, and how do they know?
• Alive, Once Alive, or NeverEvery living thing is cells, and every cell came from another cell.
• Why Does Money Work?A note is just paper. It works because everybody agrees to take it.
• Why Winter Is ColdEarth is closest to the Sun in January. Seasons are a tilt, not a distance.
• Say It BackState the other position until its holder recognises it. Then disagree.
• The Cut You Did Not SeeA film has hundreds of cuts, built so you never notice one.
• What the Equals Sign Actually SaysIt is a claim that two things are the same number. Not an instruction to compute.
• Look First, Then Say What It MeansDescribe what is actually there before deciding what it is about.
• Change One ThingA fair test changes one thing and keeps everything else the same.
• Grapple or StrikeThe fighting disciplines are not versions of each other.
• It's All Numbers Under an AgreementText, pictures and sound are all numbers. Which numbers mean what is a decision people wrote down.
• More Than One Way to Be FairFair does not always mean the same amount.
• Proof or Picture?Drawing it is not proving it. Both matter, and they are not the same.
• The DoseThe guidance is a number, and almost nobody knows what it is.
• What a Story Is Doing to YouEvery story is making choices about you while you read it.
• Questions That Do Not Wear OutSome questions have been open for three thousand years. Yours is one of them.
• Before Anything PhysicalAlmost all of what protects a person happens before contact.
• Where the Hours WentPeople are systematically wrong about their own time. There is a way to find out.
• The Price Nobody Charges YouThe real cost of anything is the best thing you gave up to get it.
• Your Address Has a RecordThe ground under your building has a paper trail, and you can read it.
• What Broke, and Who Said SoEngineering's strange habit: when something fails, the investigation gets published.
• The Rate Is Not the CostTwo loans at the same rate can cost wildly different amounts.
• Taught, Not AssignedWriting has moves. They can be taught separately, and mostly they are not.
• Asking Is a Move You Can PractiseKnowing what help exists and how to reach it is the part that reliably works.
• Friendship Is a Set of MovesThe reshuffle is normal. So is the loneliness. Both are documented.
• Where the Words Come FromMost words you know, nobody taught you. You met them in reading.