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A conversation with the former Governor of New York State.
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As Alan Greenspan defends his role in the financial meltdown, the ex-Governor of New York argues that he blundered badly in his understanding of human corruption.
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Bernie Madoff was bigger, more brazen, and more remarkable, because of his capacity to survive. But he was not unique. He epitomizes an “era of irresponsibility.”
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Climate change makes the extinction expert toss and turn.
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The idea that “going back to nature” will solve the climate crisis is a dangerous misconception.
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The biologist and paleontologist remembers “the smartest man [he’s] ever known.”
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Why Earth may be exceptional, and life exceptionally rare in the universe.
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Our inability to detect other life in the universe may stem from interstellar communication problems. Then again, it may be because Earth evolution is “like Mr. Bean.”
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Peter Ward explains how the scientific community can improve its dismal public outreach—and why he believes the problem of women in science is solving itself.
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The economic slowdown has briefly slowed CO2 emissions. Humanity may still squeak through the climate crisis—though not without “untold misery,” says Peter Ward.
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Peter Ward’s “Medea Hypothesis” suggests that all multicellular life is doomed to kill itself off in the long run. Intelligence, he says, may be the only loophole.
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The CO2 levels Peter Ward measured on a recent trip to Antarctica left him with a bleak view of the future of the planet.
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An interview with the biologist and paleontologist at the University of Washington in Seattle.
When you think of Pop Art, the art movement that dominated the late 1950s and early 1960s in America, you almost automatically cast up the wigged head of Andy Warhol. […]
World of Warcraft gamers are being encouraged to upgrade their Adobe Flash players after a glitch was discovered that could make their accounts vulnerable to hackers.
New research suggests that prescribing the female hormone estrogen to women with emotional disorders might protect them from contracting schizophrenia.
A defeat of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s quest for another four-year term could raise the risk of a “double dip” recession, economists have warned.
Aliens visiting Earth will be “just like humans”, sporting faults such as greed, violence and exploitation of the weak, according to claims by a leading scientist at Cambridge University.
An aircraft, suspected to be a US drone, has crashed in Pakistan’s North Waziristan tribal region according to officials and local residents.
Cambodia’s government-run drug rehabilitation centers have been accused of torturing addicts with “sadistic violence” such as electric shocks by human rights groups.