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"By focusing all our attention on whether we need a bigger stimulus or a smaller deficit, we’re flying blind." TNR says we should concentrate on deeper reforms toward a knowledge based economy.
"Is a strategy of killing off Mexico’s drug kingpins really viable?" 'Yes', says a researcher at the University of Mexico, but only because political will to legalize and regulate drugs is lacking.
Climate change deniers who fault others for not verifying the underlying science set an unachievable standard. We rightly trust the consensus of experts in nearly every aspect of our lives.
Those decrying the death of the intellect, and the book, at the hands of the nefarious Internet would do well to recall that the printed page itself was once called the destroyer of education.
"Many problems which are more prevalent lower down the social ladder are worse in societies with bigger income differences, and second, almost everyone would benefit from reduced inequality."
Ironically, the age of the iPod has made finding new music harder than ever. The Atlantic begins a three part series on going beyond the radio to discover what's new in music town.
For the first time ever, scientists have made an invisibility cloak from silk. Current research focuses on medical applications for diabetics while visions of Harry Potter remain far afield.
"A lack of women during men’s teenage years still haunts their health decades later." The Economist reports on a surprising study that hints at an important formative sexual period.
"The point in prehistory when our early ancestors first picked up a sharp-edged stone to butcher animals has been pushed back one million years with the discovery of ancient bones."
New bilateral free trade agreements with Colombia, Panama and South Korea are important tools for reviving the economy, boosting American exports and competing with Canada.
Frank Rich’s piece in the New York Review of Books, “Why Has He Fallen Short?” questions the benefits of raw intelligence as the key skill for political life. Or rather, […]
The legal fight over same-sex marriage in federal courts is just beginning, and the outcome is far from certain. But in the aftermath of Judge Vaughn Walker’s ruling overturning California’s […]
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Knife thrower David Adamovich walks us through some of his most popular stunts.
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Though Throwdini’s first target was a man, all the rest since have been women. Part of the act’s appeal is wondering what happens off-stage, he says.
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The most dangerous stunt “The Great Throwdini” has ever attempted involved catching bullets, knives, and arrows—and it did not go according to plan.
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The Great Throwdini shows us his favorite projectiles and explains the mechanics of making them always hit the right spot.
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David Adamovich didn’t start throwing knives until he was 50 years old. He admits that in his career as a thrower he’s “scraped” a girl. But “I’ve never impaled the […]
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A conversation with the world’s fastest knife-thrower.
Save yourself the time and effort: parents have much less influence over their children's personality than we think, says controversial psychologist Judith Rich Harris.
While over $300 billion worth of prescription drugs were sold in the U.S. in 2009, the pharmaceutical industry is now bringing fewer new drugs to market each year now than […]