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The Web and cloud computing have made the work of archivists and record keepers faster than ever before, but is information lost in the internet's labyrinth any more accessible than […]
Arizona is facing a backlash after Governor Jan Brewer signed a law making it a crime not to carry immigration papers and authorizing the police to detain anyone suspected of […]
We’ve always had a strange fascination with watching ourselves. Oscar Wilde’s Dorian Gray famously agonized over the reflection of a hedonist life on his portrait, which aged and suffered at […]
The idea that our planet's climate is changing is nothing new, says environmentalist and writer Bill McKibbon—in fact, the first person to theorize that our planet was warming was a […]
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Exxon Mobil made more money each of the last three years than any company in history. In our political system, that buys them power to prevent change.
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Unfortunately, no one source of renewable energy will be able to hold a candle to fossil fuel.
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These days, the average bite of food you eat has traveled 2,000 miles to reach your lips.
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As a first step, the government needs to put a tax on carbon dioxide emissions. Fossil fuel needs to pay the price for the damage it causes in the atmosphere.
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Our civilization is going to be forced to change dramatically as a result of global warming.
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The first person to come up with the idea of global warming was a 19th-Century Swedish chemist.
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A conversation with the writer and environmental activist.
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If American science education is to move forward, American culture needs to stop caricaturing scientists as socially awkward villains.
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New research on the underlying causes of autism could soon lead to earlier diagnoses and better treatments.
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The geneticist feels for parents who seek causes for their children’s autism in vaccinations. Unfortunately, no evidence yet supports the theory.
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Why is the risk of autism higher in boys than girls? Why do older parents tend to have more autistic children? New genetic research attempts to answer some of the […]
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The genetics professor describes one of the world’s most complex and controversial disorders.
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The brother of a childhood friend inspired Michael Wigler’s research into the minds of those who are, "in wondrous ways, very different from us."
Dr. Fatih Birol, the chief economist of the International Energy Agency, says he has never owned a car. While he admits his decision may seem "unusual" to people in the […]
"There's this core of people who have become very, very powerful who can do enormous damage to the rest of society and honestly, they really don’t care," says Simon Johnson, […]
"I remember I was reading Svevo, it was 'The Confessions of Zeno'...And I looked—I was lying in bed and I looked down at the floor and there was a little […]