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BP Oil Spill May Have Contributed to Dolphin Deaths
By the Editor on July 21, 2012
The 2010 BP oil spill contributed to an unusually high death rate for dolphins in the Gulf of Mexico,...
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Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions Continue to Rise
By the Editor on July 21, 2012
International talks to address human-caused global warming began 20 years ago in Rio de Janeiro. But despite attempts to...
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Researchers Produce First Complete Computer Model of an Organism
By the Editor on July 21, 2012
A mammoth effort has produced a complete computational model of the bacterium Mycoplasma genitalium, opening the door for biological...
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Dreaming of a World With No Intellectuals
By the Editor on July 20, 2012
Are conservative intellectuals anti-intellectual? The short answer must be no. Edmund Burke, Leo Strauss, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Harvey Mansfield, Wilfred...
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Generation X Lukewarm on Global Warming
By the Editor on July 20, 2012
Gen Xers are surprisingly blasé about climate change. A survey in 2009 found members of Generation X were largely...
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What Space Smells Like and How to Recreate It
By the Editor on July 20, 2012
Space smells. But what does it smell like? Different astronauts and scientists have said different things—from seared steak to...
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Future of Liberal Religion: A Counterculture Blooms?
By the Editor on July 19, 2012
Amid a cascade of comment on the decline of mainline Protestantism, an historian argues that a great progressive tradition...
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We Punish Out of a Desire for Fairness, Not Revenge
By the Editor on July 19, 2012
Punishment helps discourage the dishonest from destroying the fabric of cooperative human societies. But that’s not what you actually...
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Brain Study Locates Seat Of Selfishness, Altruism
By the Editor on July 19, 2012
Some people are generous–others, not so much. Why is that? A new study from Switzerland suggests that the answer...
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Neanderthals Had Knowledge of Plants’ Healing Qualities
By the Editor on July 19, 2012
An international team of researchers has provided the first molecular evidence that Neanderthals not only ate a range of...
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