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New York’s Maker Faire: More Than Just Digital Quilting
Technology and society: The “maker” movement could change how science is taught and boost innovation. It may even herald...
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Seasteading: Cities on the Ocean
Seasteading: Libertarians dream of creating self-ruling floating cities. But can the many obstacles, not least the engineering ones, be...
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The Evolved Self-Management System
If placebo medicine can induce people to release hidden healing resources, are there other ways in which the cultural...
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Astronomers Find Biggest Black Holes Yet
Astronomers are reporting that they have taken the measure of the biggest, baddest black holes yet found in the...
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The Politics of Famine
A common misconception is that hunger crises are about a lack of food. In Northern Kenya, where an estimated...
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Three-Quarters of Climate Change is Man-Made
Natural climate variability is extremely unlikely to have contributed more than about one-quarter of the temperature rise observed in...
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Earth in Balmy 2080
We cannot say for sure what kind of a home Earth will offer in 2080, but averages made across...
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Signal for Consciousness in Brain Marked by Neural Dialogue
Results indicate that “activity in a certain region is not sufficient to generate consciousness,” neuroscientist Simon van Gaal explains....
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Would You Kill One Person to Save Five?
This dilemma is a famous philosophical conundrum that was originally called the “trolley problem.” Now a team from Michigan...