BIG Problems – Page 120

Facebook: Big Friend or Big Brother?
By the Editor on April 10, 2012
Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft and Amazon are the masters of this new universe. Each dominates an overlapping realm of...
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Now This Is Interesting: A Climate Prediction From 1981
By the Editor on April 10, 2012
It is very much worth checking out an item on Real Climate, from two Dutch scientists. They have found a paper by James...
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Girls Do Have a Math Problem: Teacher Bias
By the Editor on April 10, 2012
Bias on the part of high school math teachers is hampering girls who want to study mathematics, an analysis...
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Social Rank Linked to Immunity
By the Editor on April 10, 2012
A study of rhesus macaque monkeys may have solved a long-standing puzzle on a link between social rank and...
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Is Corn Syrup Killing the Honeybees?
By the Editor on April 10, 2012
A trio of recent studies faults a common family of corn pesticides for disorienting honeybees, potentially leading to colony...
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Energy Solutions From the Perspective of Big History
By William Grassie on April 10, 2012
Humans now consume some 18 trillion watts of energy in a variety of forms. Every aspect of our contemporary...
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Proposed Satellite Would Beam Solar Power to Earth
By the Editor on April 9, 2012
An energy-hungry Earth is in need of transformational and sustainable energy solutions. For decades, researchers have been appraising the...
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Was Jesus Happy?
By the Editor on April 9, 2012
Was Jesus Happy? How you answer that question says a lot about the culture that influenced you most.
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Evolution at Sea: Phytoplankton Can Adapt to Ocean Acidification
By the Editor on April 9, 2012
Fossil fuel derived carbon dioxide has a serious impact on global climate but also a disturbing effect on the...
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For U.S. Science, A Crisis Looms
By the Editor on April 9, 2012
The United States is at risk of ceding its leadership in science, a number of physicists said, though there...
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