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Short Story Month: The White Road and Other Stories

Ilana Teitelbaum | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ilana Teitelbaum

Concluding a series of posts for Short Story Month, a review of The White Road and Other Stories by Tania Hershman. Beginning with a café in Antar...

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Why Are Some People Atheists?

New Scientist | Lois Lee and Stephen Bullivant | Posted 05.25.2011

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If religion comes so naturally to us, why are so many people, especially in western Europe, apparently resistant to it? New Scientist calls for scient...

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Bad Bosses: Leaders Who Feel Incompetent Lash Out At Employees: Study

New Scientist | Ewen Callaway | Posted 05.25.2011

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Got a bullying boss? Take solace in new research showing that leaders who feel incompetent really do lash out at others to temper their own inferiorit...

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Evolution and War: Back to Basics

David Sloan Wilson | Posted 05.25.2011

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David Sloan Wilson

War has been part of the human condition throughout recorded and archeological history. Is war part of our nature?

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Avoiding an Environmental Apocalypse

Kathy Freston | Posted 05.25.2011

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Kathy Freston

It seems to me that Al Gore may have been too soft in choosing his movie title: "inconvenient" might better be replaced with "staggering" or "alarming' or perhaps even something stronger.

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Reuters Mangles Flu Story and Blasts "Wild Theories" About "Evil Factory Farms"

David Kirby | Posted 05.25.2011

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David Kirby

It's entirely possible that the Smithfield facility at La Gloria had nothing to do with this outbreak. But it's not exactly a "wild theory" -- Smithfield pigs are being tested for the new H1N1 strain as I write this.

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