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A library of interviews with the world’s biggest thinkers.
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Some local districts are working to curb childhood obesity by showing that school lunches don’t have to consist of “chicken fingers and salty foods.” Will the government listen?
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There is a wealth of evidence showing that salt helps to generate high blood pressure, which in turn spurs myriad other chronic diseases; yet salt is nearly inescapable in the […]
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With such a wide range of foods that are being called “organic” today, a nutritionist reminds us what the standards for the term truly are.
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Despite decades of scientific attempts to find something wrong with caffeine consumption, proof of any medical threat remains elusive. But that doesn’t mean its labeling isn’t deceptive.
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Certain foods often become trumped as dietary “must-haves,” but as the nutritionist warns, these claims are motivated by marketing, not health.
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A conversation with the New York University Professor of Nutrition.
As Newt Gingrich explains, if Republicans take over the House and the Senate, Obama will prove to be a cross between a “tone deaf” and ineffective Jimmy Carter and Lyndon […]
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According to Newt Gingrich, the psychological impact of Ted Kennedy’s Senate chair being taken by a Republican incumbent will likely be as extreme for Democrats as the defeat of 1994.
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Newt Gingrich explains why Scott Brown’s success illustrates the profound anxiety and unrest being provoked by the “Obama-Pelosi-Reid machine.”
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As Newt Gingrich explains, the election of Scott Brown is a clear signal that the GOP is no longer “tone deaf” or isolated and is poised to penetrate blue-state strongholds […]
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Your finger is farther from your nose than your brain. So when your finger touches your nose, why do both organs feel the sensation at the same time?
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Carl Zimmer’s blog, “The Loom,” often features pictures of readers’ science tattoos. Is he hiding any himself?
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From parasites that alter our brain chemistry to a deadly organism decimating Sudan, the “Parasite Rex” author introduces the creatures that make themselves at home in our bodies.
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Science writer Carl Zimmer has had a species of tapeworm named after him. It’s an honor, he says, that almost everyone on earth could conceivably share.
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Could deadly viruses’ rapid evolution be turned against them? And could we ever control the pace of our own evolution?
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MIT students now generate their own strains of e coli for class projects. But synthetic biology is about to get a whole lot bigger.
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Everyone knows we have hereditary viruses in our genome. What scientists are just learning is how many there are—and how many we’ve come to depend on.
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Anytime the government gets involved with private sector activity, with economic activity, there is going to be a distortion of the market that can cause a problem.
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Wallison says the Obama administration believes average Americans are too stupid to know what they should and shouldn’t buy.