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September 11th, 2014 |
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The first exhibit of the National September 11 Memorial Museum is a multimedia display entitled, “We Remember”. Sixteen speakers surround visitors with a barrage of voices as accompanying text is projected onto a world map: Someone barged in and said, “Oh my God. That plane has just crashed into the World Trade Center.” I heard [...]
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Rosa Li is a PhD student in Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University, where she studies risk-taking in children, teenagers, and adults. She loves llamas, alpacas, baby pandas, and science. She blogs about science at Science Beyond the Abstract.
Preventing the sexual transmission of HIV is an urgent public health priority. With more than two million people newly infected with HIV every year, lives hang in the balance. At the same time, messaging about preventing the sexual transmission of HIV is the ultimate act of cross-cultural communication. In our haste to save lives, it [...]
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Tim Lahey, MD MMSc, is an HIV doctor, an associate professor at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, and chair of the bioethics committee at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. Follow on Twitter @TimLaheyMD.
August 21st, 2014 |
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Most of us experience the ocean looking out from a beach during vacation or maybe flying over it in a plane. It seems vast, ancient and invulnerable. It is hard to imagine that up to 80 percent of life lives below the waves, throughout 1.3 billion cubic kilometers of water and across a seabed comprising [...]
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Alex Rogers is an independent scientific adviser to the Global Ocean Commission, a professor of conservation biology at Oxford University’s Somerville College and Scientific Director of the International Programme on the State of the Ocean. Follow on Twitter @AlexDavidRogers.
August 20th, 2014 |
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About 30 years ago I saw my first Jim Jarmusch movie, Stranger than Paradise at the Detroit Film Theatre, a popular site for indie film screening situated in the Detroit Institute of Arts. It is fitting that Jarmusch’s latest film, Only Lovers Left Alive, staring Tom Hiddleston and Tilda Swinton as Adam and Eve, takes [...]
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Dr. Brian Levine is a senior scientist at the Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest and a professor of psychology at University of Toronto. He is interested in the function and dysfunction of large-scale neural systems as expressed in complex human behaviors, including episodic and autobiographical memory and executive functioning. Follow on Twitter @briantlevine.
August 19th, 2014 |
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What’s for dinner would seem to be one of life’s more straightforward questions. However, if my 36 years of food safety experience have taught me anything, it is that the answer to that question isn’t as simple as it once was. Most consumers would be surprised to find just how complex simple meals have become. [...]
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David Edwards (NSF International Food Safety Consultant and Former Managing Director of NSF International’s Global Food Safety Division) serves on the board of the trading arm of the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health – CIEH Ltd, a global provider of accredited qualifications in health and safety, food safety, environmental protection, fire safety and first aid.
August 18th, 2014 |
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News out of Harvard suggests that not only will climate change affect how food is grown, but it will also lower the nutrition levels of what is grown—wheat, corn and rice in particular. While this could be a major cause for concern, scientists know that it is possible to breed new varieties of these staple [...]
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Rachel Kyte is World Bank Group Vice President and Special Envoy for Climate Change. She oversees work on climate change adaptation, mitigation, climate finance, and disaster risk and resilience across the institutions of the World Bank Group, including IBRD, IDA, IFC and MIGA. Follow on Twitter @rkyte365.
August 14th, 2014 |
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People woke early to greet the low tide at Cannon Beach, Oregon, in late July. They wandered through sand to a pillar of stone at the edge of the Pacific called Haystack Rock. Some were looking up at birds, but most of us were looking down into the tide pools. We were saying hello to [...]
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Dr. Lisa Gardiner is a writer, science educator and illustrator. She leads K-12 science education projects at the UCAR Center for Science Education in Boulder, Colorado. Follow on Twitter @lisagard2.
More and more often, societies around the world are facing a conflict that puts us all at risk. People reject scientific evidence when it does not fit their worldviews and values, challenging governments to make evidence-based policies that do the most good for the most people over the long term, but also respond to short-term [...]
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David Ropeik is an Instructor at the Harvard Extension School and author of 'How Risky Is It, Really? Why Our Fears Don’t Always Match the Facts'. Follow on Twitter @dropeik.
In 1842, when the famed German mathematician Carl Gustav Jacobi was invited to speak to a scientific meeting in Manchester, he had a surprise in store for his English hosts. “It is the glory of science to be of no use,” he announced to the startled gathering of physical scientists. The true aim of science [...]
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Amir Alexander’s latest book is Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World. He teaches at UCLA.
Since the outset of the most recent Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Gaza, criticism has been leveled against the news media’s coverage of the crisis. A number of reporters have expressed their frustrations about there being no obvious way to please both sides. Regardless of their best efforts to cover the conflict objectively and fairly, reporters receive [...]
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Dr. Elizabeth L. Cohen is an Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at West Virginia University. She researches the social and psychological effects of technology use and entertainment media. Follow on Twitter: @ElizabethCohen
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