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"The big discovery has been that depressed patients who have proven most resistant to traditional treatments...seem to have particularly high rates of inflammation."
Unable to handle the pressure to pick more and more cotton, in October 2008, Umida Donisheva, a 17-year-old girl, hung herself from a tree on the edge of a cotton field.
"A physicist needs to decide what features of the problem are relevant and which features can be ignored, how to represent the problem in different ways..."
It is not often that a celebrity memoir makes the leap from the front page of the New York Times Arts section to its Op-Ed page, but then what less […]
Have you noticed just how ubiquitous the phrase "mad as hell" has become in news coverage and commentary? The catchphrase has been used to support a narrative that anger is […]
It initially cost $3 billion to fully sequence all of the 25,000 or so genes that describe a human being. The resulting data is essentially an "owner's manual" for our […]
The Democrats are bracing for big losses in next week’s election. While the Democrats may, as Nate Silver argues, still have some modest chance of retaining both houses of Congress, […]
While reusable bottles and tap water filters are by far the best alternative to bottled water, they can be, to use the highly scientific term, a hassle. To address this, […]
From the We Love DC blog: Pre-Pre Show – 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Video montages and music will play on Jumbotrons to entertain the audience Pre Show – 12 […]
A few weeks ago, rumors started swirling that the United Nations was going to nominate Mazlan Othman, a celebrated Malayasian astrophysicist, to be the UN’s first Space Ambassador.
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The first African-American grandmaster traces his obsession with chess to a high school friend who kept crushing him at the game.
The news of the aftermath from the Merapi eruption continues to be grim. The pyroclastic flows have killed at least 33 people (including the "Keeper of Merapi", who has caused a stir […]
Last night President Obama appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, receiving mixed reviews from commentators as the President sought to speak directly to an important Democratic base of […]
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The game trains you to focus on what your opponent is thinking and planning—a discipline that is useful on the chessboard and in the boardroom.
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"It’s a discipline that you practice," says the Jamaican-born grandmaster, "and you can’t help but develop your mental powers."
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The top African-American chess player defied the conventional wisdom that you need to learn the game in preschool to become a grandmaster.
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Players from Brooklyn want "to rip your heart out, cook it, and eat it later."
So, maybe I spoke too soon when I mentioned in passing how quiet the fall has been in the world of volcanic eruptions. In less than a week since I […]
"Pig manure can pave our streets—and a path to cleaner energy." The Atlantic reports on a new machine that converts excrement into bio-oil and liquid fertilizer.