Sad Sacks
Week in Review / by / November 6, 2009
As a UK adviser is fired over politically unpalatable advice and an English teacher is suspended over an article about animal sexuality, the fate of facts is on the line.
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Back From the Future
A crazy theory about the Higgs-Boson sparks debate in the physics community, and the perils of cloud computing becomes all too real.
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Heads Up
As the Nobels are awarded, President Obama and friends grab their telescopes and head injuries to athletes go under the microscope.
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Futurity Imperfect
The science journalism community weighs in as a new website blurs the line between reporting and public relations.
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The One that Got Away
A dead fish has caused a stink over false positives in fMRI studies, and while gloom and doom reign at UN climate talks, renting a movie you actually like has never been easier.
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Monkey See, Monkey Juice
An elegant gene therapy trial “cures” colorblindness in monkeys and new film about Darwin attempts to drum up some controversy.
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Lessons for Science Envoys
Sheila Jasanoff examines President Obama’s Middle East science envoy program and offers five crucial tips on what scientists should avoid overseas.
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A Universal Truth
The universality of basic science may be the deepest link between the US and the Muslim world.
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Business as Abnormal
The recent flirtation with geoengineering may prove a dangerous distraction from working toward a sustainable future.
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Next Steps for Geoengineering
Uncertain about what to make of geoengineering? A new report from the Royal Society carves away science fiction from science fact.
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Czar Wars
As a TV pundit takes down one of President Obama’s green “czars,” the US figures out how to pay its way back to the Moon and beyond, plus a nerd-rock band declares “Science is Real.”
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Pushing a Power Portfolio
As alternative energy funding plans are rolled out, a long-running debate over nuclear rages on Earth and in space.
Catalyst
The Environmental Revival
Which modern enviro concepts are throwbacks to the past? Four experts discuss the technologies, laws, and states of mind that have their roots in the first wave of the environmental movement.
Comment
A Natural Obsession
Organic foods are exploding in popularity. But fears of biotechnology—and a widespread mistrust of science—won’t help efforts to create a truly sustainable agriculture.
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Brains and Storms
A pair of elegant experiments delve deep into the brains of animals, while a pair of authors stir up a storm over their take on global warming.
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World
Sad Sacks
As a UK adviser is fired over politically unpalatable advice and an English teacher is suspended over an article about animal sexuality, the fate of facts is on the line.
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Ideas
Sweet Obesity
As obesity rates soar, Americans are consuming more low-calorie artificial sweeteners. But do artificial sweeteners actually help people lose weight?
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Books
Books to Read Now
November releases feature the mysteries of Grigori Perelman, the evolutionary origins of reading, and strategies for containing strains of flu.
