Culture
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Public Presence & Social Science
January 14, 2011
The social sciences deal with humanity’s most pressing problems, but there are barriers between practitioners and the public. We must restructure these disciplines from the ground up.
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Disposable Heroes
January 11, 2011
If scientific evidence suggests that even mild blows to the head in full-contact sports can in time be neurologically debilitating, why isn’t more being done to reduce the risks to athletes?
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The Web is Not a Gadget
January 05, 2011
The Web hasn’t been designed to do anything. And so it doesn’t do anything, much less anything smart, creative, or suggesting awareness.
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The Power of the People
December 22, 2010
Dave Munger test-drives two newly unveiled tools for understanding vast sets of cultural and scientific data.
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On Closing the Culture Gap
November 30, 2010
Climate change, biodiversity loss, nuclear conflict—all are caused by human activity. We need a way to reorganize and refocus the sciences and humanities with a “Millennium Assessment of Human Behavior.”
culture, global reset, physical science, population, public perception, social science
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Symbols from the Sky
July 13, 2010
Heavenly messages from the depths of prehistory may be encoded on the walls of caves throughout Europe.
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Books to Read Now
May 03, 2010
May releases trace the modern obsession with bottled water; revisit the birth of quantum theory; and document an elusive quest for absolute silence.
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Emotion’s Alchemy
March 30, 2010
New insights into the science of emotion unravel the seeming neurological magic that turns emotions into social expressions.
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New & Notable: 1/06 - 1/12
January 13, 2006
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Practical Joking
January 12, 2006
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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.
