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  • Why the World Needs Religious Studies

    By on November 21, 2011

    Walking around the AAR each year, I feel like I’m seeing Isaiah’s vision about wolves and lambs coming true—aside...

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  • Is the End of the World Really Nigh?

    By on November 21, 2011

    Look through the lens of science and “the end” becomes much more interesting.

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  • Hawking: Time to Go

    By on November 21, 2011

    British theoretical physicist Prof. Stephen Hawking says the colonization of outer space is key to the survival of humankind,...

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  • A Five-Step Program for Ending Our Oil Addiction

    By on November 20, 2011

    In Reinventing Fire, Rocky Mountain Institute provides a blueprint for transforming transportation and freight services with uncompromised convenience, safety...

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  • “New” Genes May Have Played a Role in Human Brain Evolution

    By on November 18, 2011

    When an international team of researchers scanned the human genome for “de novo” genes, they putatively uncovered 60, three...

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  • Quantum Theorem Shakes Foundations

    By on November 18, 2011

    At the heart of the weirdness for which the field of quantum mechanics is famous is the wavefunction, a...

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  • World’s Worst Die-Off: Hell on Earth

    By on November 18, 2011

    During the world’s biggest mass extinction, Earth seemed pretty close to a description of hell—fiery, smoky, and explosive—created by...

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  • View a Colossal Telescopic Eye Into the Cosmic Past

    By on November 17, 2011

    Recently, one of the four 8.2-metre telescopes that make up the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope captured the...

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  • Did Parasites Drive Human Evolution?

    By on November 17, 2011

    What if factors other than climate, like the food available nearby or the viruses, bacteria, and parasites native to...

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  • Future Wars May Be Fought by Synapses

    By on November 15, 2011

    Instead of the indiscriminate destruction of the atom bomb or napalm, the signature weapon of future wars may be...

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