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Bill McKibben Does the Sandy Math
By the Editor on October 31, 2012
As a writer and activist Bill McKibben has devoted his life to tackling the threat posed by man-made climate change. As Hurricane...
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Climate Crimes Against Humanity?
By the Editor on October 30, 2012
PBS recently aired Frontline’s “Climate of Doubt,” documenting the success of the denialists in reversing U.S. political opinion on...
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Mass Extinction Study Provides Lessons for Modern World
By the Editor on October 30, 2012
The Cretaceous Period of Earth history ended with a mass extinction that wiped out numerous species, most famously the...
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Impact of Adversity on Early Life Development
By the Editor on October 26, 2012
Adversity during childhood can help someone build persistence and self-control a new study suggests, with implications for nature vs....
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How the “Spiritual Not Religious” Gospel Has Spread
By the Editor on October 25, 2012
You can call them “unaffiliated,” as in a recent Pew poll, or “nones”—or even just “not very religious.” A...
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The Presidential Debates’ Great Unmentionable: Climate Change
By the Editor on October 23, 2012
The Pentagon ranks it as a national security threat and, left unchecked, climate change is expected to cost the...
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Scholarly Publishing’s Gender Gap
By the Editor on October 23, 2012
Women cluster in certain fields, according to a study of millions of journal articles, while men get more credit
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What Can You Really Know?
By the Editor on October 23, 2012
Jim Holt’s Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story is a portrait gallery of leading modern philosophers....
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Sex and Space Travel: Predictions From the 1950s
By the Editor on October 23, 2012
Outside of science fiction, the topic of sex in space has received surprisingly scant attention. But it was science...
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Global Mobility: Science Mapped Out
By the Editor on October 19, 2012
A special issue of Nature examines the changing global landscape of research.
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