Articles from 10/2008
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The Damnedest Lies
The success of fivethirtyeight.com is a credit not only to statistical prowess but also to keen intuition about social habits.
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Agnostic Machinery
Bill Maher's film Religulous hoped to use scientists to paint religion as a neurological disorder, but the scientists had a different idea.
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Barack Obama for President
An endorsement from the editors of Seed.
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The Double Negative
How can evolution explain both the appeal and recent failings of negative campaigning?
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Preserving Tranquility
Should the sites of lunar landings be protected as part of our cultural inheritance?
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Words on the Brain
Can we observe how meaning is stored in the brain?
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The Mason’s Apprentice
Our closest single-celled relatives reveal the origins of the stuff that holds us together.
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Cribsheet #18: Biofuels
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The Statistical Universe
We look up to an expanse of sky that is billions of light-years in size, but the universe may be far larger than what we are able to see.
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Rheanna Sand
On the order and chaos within us.
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Boxing with Shadows
The real marvel of the LHC is that, in a litter of subatomic debris, scientists know exactly what to look for.
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No Resting on Laurels
The Olympics, China's world debut, have ended. Now what?
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Bacterial Foresight
Can bacteria anticipate changes in their environment?
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How We Evolve
A growing number of scientists argue that human culture itself has become the foremost agent of biological change.
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The Trouble with Biodiversity
Life is more varied near the equator. But making sense of that has confounded biologists for 200 years.
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What Future for NASA?
America's space agency faces uncertain future on its 50th anniversary.
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Ideas
I Tried Almost Everything Else
John Rinn, snowboarder, skateboarder, and “genomic origamist,” on why we should dumpster-dive in our genomes and the inspiration of a middle-distance runner.
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Ideas
Going, Going, Gone
The second most common element in the universe is increasingly rare on Earth—except, for now, in America.
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Ideas
Earth-like Planets Aren’t Rare
Renowned planetary scientist James Kasting on the odds of finding another Earth-like planet and the power of science fiction.
