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The New York Times’ Frugal Traveler columnist on what gear you shouldn’t leave home without.
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A hotel “that’s run by someone small and creative and clever is going to be much better than the place that you get simply because you have money.”
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A conversation with the New York Times’ Frugal Traveler columnist.
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The epidemiologist traced one of the most important public health crises of our time back to chimpanzees.
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The journalist and his friends founded the first fantasy baseball league—a development that nurtured the explosion of statistical analysis in sports.
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“The best advice I’ve ever had as a writer was, hope that your research disproves your preconceptions. And push further so that you can get there.”
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Since he’s left the paper, Okrent continues to come across things that irritate him about coverage. But it’s no longer his job to be the paper’s cop, so he lets […]
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There will always be plagiarists and reporters who didn’t make the phone call they claimed to have made. But an ombudsman can make the difference in preventing chronic lapses of […]
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Readers of the “paper of record” took issue with perceived bias in everything from headlines to photo captions. But they were most concerned about the use of anonymous sources.
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While Prohibition was certainly about drinking, it was also a stand-in issue in the battle among various groups over control of the country.
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A conversation with the journalist and former New York Times public editor.
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Why it’s “almost as much fun to destroy an idea as to create one.”
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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.