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Real magicians don’t pretend to be mystical characters. By telling us they’re just performing tricks, they make their feats all the more breathtaking.
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What does it take to outperform the master escape artist? Common sense, a good night’s sleep, and shallow breathing.
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Conjurers perform skillful tricks, not miracles. But when the magician first saw one of his idols perform, he wasn’t sure whether he was seeing “a demon or an angel.”
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A conversation with the magician and scientific skeptic.
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Jill Tarter is trying to find an answer to a question people have asked forever: is there life on other planets?
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A conversation with the Director of the Center for SETI Research.
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The founder of the Copenhagen Climate Council’s biggest fear is that we’ll get discouraged by the steep environmental challenges coming our way.
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The man who founded the climate change talks reflects on the fatigue that could cripple upcoming discussions among world leaders in Cancun.
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Corporations have a strong business interest in becoming sustainable.
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“In the final analysis, governments generally don’t embark on policies that may well mean their political demise sooner rather than later.”
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If we’re being even a little optimistic about future CO2 levels, warns the energy and risk analyst Charles Ebinger, then we’re in trouble.
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Will futuristic energy solutions such as fusion and biofuels ever live up to the hype surrounding them?
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Even if there is, “dirty” coal in developing countries still poses a major problem.
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The “global nuclear renaissance” may finally be at hand. But can the technology be kept in the right hands?
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Wind is becoming a more viable (if still controversial) energy source, but effective solar power may have to wait until the nanotechnology boom.
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Pushing developing countries to slow development because of the energy crisis we’ve created is not just unfair—it’s dangerous.
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A conversation with the director of the Energy Security Initiative at the Brookings Institution.
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Will Paris and New York continue to be the standard-bearing cities of global fashion?
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The concept of what is beautiful is becoming broader and broader.
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Consumers have been changing their perception of beauty products since the 19th century.