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"Everyone looks better after you've tipped back a pint or two, and now we may know why." Discovery News says that our ability to detect facial symmetry—a metric of beauty—diminishes.
Slate reports on why we love us a good summer scandal, whether its Gibson or Blago: "If communities are enclaves of shared norms, then scandals are what consolidate a community."
From commercial airplanes whose exhaust trails are secret experiments in weather control to the New Jewish World Order behind the Federal Reserve, everyone is out to get the paranoid Right.
"Scientists suggest that some psychedelics are remarkably good at treating disorders like depression and may now have a clue as to why." Studies on psychedelics may create new treatments.
"While America's super-rich congratulate themselves on donating billions to charity, the rest of the country is worse off than ever." Der Spiegel reports on the rising rich-poor gap in the U.S.
"Scientists are increasingly worried about the amount of debris orbiting the Earth." The Economist says the number of potential collisions among space satellites has doubled in the last decade.
Are our cities making us unhappy? The diversity of plant life surrounding us affects several quality of life metrics such as the ability to concentrate, relax and make major life decisions.
When cultural practices deny people equal access to rights such as education, physical and emotional well-being, we must cease to tolerate difference under the guise of multiculturalism.
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I always used to laugh at people who ignored the lyrics to “Every Breath You Take” by The Police and thought it was a lovely love song. If it’s about […]
Last week public radio’s On Point called upon a group of experts to discuss the top 10 science fiction films of all time. Included on the show were the NY […]
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Social media sites have fundamentally changed how people communicate, but when it comes to really groundbreaking ways of reaching people "social has so many more legs still to go. We […]
Bloomberg reports this week that News Corp., which own both Fox News and the Wall Street Journal, donated $1 million to the Republican Governors Association in June—a contribution that dwarfs […]
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The fact that social media has become more of a mainstream activity means that businesses need to take it seriously. The days when you could ignore it are long gone.
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A conversation with the founder of the Altimeter Group.
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There are some very interesting things coming out of the Nordic countries that could challenge the culinary hegemony of Spain and France.
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There’s something amiss if restaurants have to announce that they use good quality ingredients; that should be a given, says Dufresne.
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Foam has risen to prominence among a certain generation of chefs—but its detractors call it pretentious or just plain weird.
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Humans have never invested very much in the public health and safety issues of their societies. Meanwhile ants, over the course of millions of years, have put a lot of […]
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Dufresne has two common approaches to dishes: familiar things in unfamiliar presentations and unfamiliar things in familiar presentations.