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A library of interviews with the world’s biggest thinkers.
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The group of fossils Don Johanson found in 1975 marked a watershed in the study of human origins—and deserves to be revisited today.
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It’s true: the world’s most famous skeleton really was named after a Beatles song. And once she was “Lucy,” she became more than just a scientific specimen.
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The discoverer of the “Lucy” fossil explains her impact on science, and describes what she would look like walking down a New York City street.
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Even with modern GPS, scientists must “look and look and look and look” for remains worth digging up.
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A conversation with the paleoanthropologist and founding director of the Institute of Human Origins.
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The author admits she bends her own rules to eat out sometimes, and hasn’t eliminated white sugar from her household. But for the most part, the foods she craves most […]
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While industrial meat production is environmentally destructive and socially unjust, raising animals for meat on in grass pastures actually enhances the environment.
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Our ancestors had a much lower incidence of diabetes, obesity and heart disease. Could it be because they ate traditional, “real” foods?
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A conversation with the founder of London Farmers’ Markets and author of “Real Food: What to Eat and Why.”
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About the only time our gut impulse can outperform our reason is if we have developed some kind of truly informed intuition.
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Different cultures have different attitudes about options–and about how many choices a person needs to have in order to decide.
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