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Powell's water-based states, or How the West wasn't won
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Americans use language to cover the sleeper, not to wake him, Baldwin said, which was why the writer as artist is so important. Only the artist could reveal society.
The mystery of why some people stay effortlessly thin while others struggle to keep weight off has come closer to being solved with a study isolating a gene that affects appetite.
Does a dirty scoundrel need a bath or a moral lesson? Our brains easily confuse metaphor for reality, often with dangerous consequences, says Stanford biology professor Robert Sapolsky.
"When someone says 'It’s not about the money, but...', it’s almost always about the money." The Boston Globe looks at the phrases we use which betray our true feelings.
"'Quantitative easing' is a pompous, uninformative term for a central bank’s buying debt in order to stimulate economic activity." Judge Richard Posner criticizes new monetary policy.
Male Homo sapiens were historically much faster and stronger than today's modern man. The Australian palaeoanthropologist Peter McAllister explains why in a new book.
While some consider the English-born physicist the heir to Einstein, others are baffled at his staunch opposition to climate science and the environmental movement.
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There is often a fine line between hagiography and take down in the most artful examples of journalistic profile. The New Yorker’s seductive piece on politician-scholar-soldier-writer-potential future British Prime Minister […]
Starting a company makes one a free market capitalist and libertarian, though finding the caring, higher purpose in the marketplace is another matter.
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I've always thought New Yorkers lead a hermit-crab existence, with our dance clubs that used to be banks and our townhouses that used to be stables and our living rooms […]
Polemicist and atheist Christopher Hitchens met his toughest opponent yet when diagnosed with cancer. It doesn't yet seem to have altered his beliefs on Iraq, on Islam, or God.