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Certain ways of interpreting certain scriptures have been made obsolete by science—but that in no way makes religious faith or belief in God obsolete
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Become a Nobel laureate means you end up "meeting people who are actually famous."
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It's unlikely we'll ever get all thermal motion to stop in an object. But we can get close enough in many experiments that "it’s basically absolute zero for all practical […]
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A conversation with the physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
The Daily Show sent its newest correspondent, Olivia Munn, to Phoenix to interview a state senator who wants to ban photo radar as an unconstitutional invasion of privacy, but who […]
The amount of money hedge funds make is only surpassed by the amount of secrecy surrounding how they make it. To pull back the curtain on these financial wizards, Big […]
Ken Coates who has died at the age of 79 of a suspected heart attack was actively engaged in radical British politics, writing and as ever bubbling with new ideas almost hours […]
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Unless you're for first class citizenship for women, you're "in support of the subordination of women," says the attorney.
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"I'm doing battle with some of the best and most highly paid attorneys in town, and often they'll play dirty. It will be ugly. It will be vicious behind the […]
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"In many cases there is no justice; there's just minimizing the injustice," says the lawyer. Doing so to the tune of many millions of dollars can have an "educational impact," […]
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Bringing a legal case against someone who is famous and powerful can be a "David and Goliath type of situation," says the lawyer. But she's "in the business of letting […]
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The attorney says that there's no hard-and-fast rule about when and how to use the media to help a client in court. "Sometimes it's like an educational moment or opportunity […]
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Women have made progress under the law—but not enough progress. And family law is rife with problems.
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Milton Berle helped Allred become the all-male club's first female member. Soon afterwards, she walked into the steam room with a tape measure, singing Peggy Lee's "Is that all there […]
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A conversation with the feminist attorney.
There was a time when you could reliably blame just about anything gone wrong from the weather to the size of your bank account on blacks or minorities and the […]
"The spread of digital technology comes at a cost: it exposes armies and societies to digital attack," says The Economist, which thinks cyberspace must be treated as a theater of war.
Spiegel follows the "Elvis of cultural studies" to a conference in Berlin where he presents his esoteric and eccentric ideas on the behavior of "late capitalism".
Two independent reports have exonerated the "Climategate" scientists, but you wouldn't know it to read the news. Salon.com takes on the wet-noodle, mainstream press.
"An aircraft fueled by the sun has accomplished its first ever manned night flight," reports the New Scientist. The Swiss aircraft broke several records for a piloted solar flight.