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Getting Over the Road Not Traveled

Barbara & Shannon Kelley | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Regret, Scientific American, Decision-Making, The Road Not Taken, Difficult Choices, Science of Regret, Depression, Undecided, Stefanie Brassen, Women News

What age takes away in collagen and hangover resilience, it gives back in the form of a certain kind of contentment.

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The Long History Of Climate Denier Publicity Stunts

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 04.14.2012

Read More: Buzz Aldrin, Nasa, Climate Change Deniers, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Climate Skeptics, Michael Mann, John Glenn, Video, Scientific American, National Academy of Science, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Astronauts, Global Warming Deniers, Global Warming, NASA Climate Change, Green News

WASHINGTON -- When former NASA administrators, astronauts and engineers released a letter earlier this week attacking the science of climate change, ...

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Towards a More Energy Efficient Food System

Kyle Rabin | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Food System, Local Food, Kyle Rabin, Sustainable Agriculture, Scientific American, Industrial Agriculture, Food-Energy Nexus, Michael E. Webber, Green Agriculture, Food and Energy, Sustainable Food, Big Agriculture, Green News

It's important to understand the many interconnections between the food and energy sectors in order to make good consumer choices and develop prudent public policy.

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Who's The Fairest Of Them All?

Posted 02.13.2012

Read More: Ranking, Livingsocial, Scientific American, Forbes, Vain, Men's Health, Miami News, Miami News

According to the daily deal web site LivingSocial, Miami is the vainest city in America. And they did more than hang out on Washington Avenue and Fift...

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Why Children Don't Learn In Preschool

Lisa Belkin | Posted 02.01.2012

Read More: Paul Tullis, Montessori, Parents-New-Moms, Scientific American, Preschool, Parents News

Experts know, with great certainty, the best way for children to learn. And the trend, nationwide, is away from doing those things.

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D.C. vs. the Green Apple: In Efficiency, We're Closer Than You Think

Brian Keane | Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: Energy Efficiency, Scientific American, Urban Planning, Washington DC, Sustainability, Clean Energy, Green Cities, Smart Growth, New York City, Cities, Most Walkable Cities, DC News

New York City has it all: high-efficiency windows, hybrid taxis, low-flow appliances, underwater turbines and more. But let's face it: it's easy for cities to be efficient. What about the suburbs?

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My Secret to Raising SAT Scores

Meg Campbell | Posted 11.27.2011

Read More: The Atlantic Monthly, Sat Prep, Scientific American, The New Yorker, College Board, Education News

My secret advice to raising SAT scores is to read the New Yorker magazine weekly -- or another magazine that is a reach to read because it's written for adults, not teens.

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The Obvious Solutions Newt Gingrich Is Missing

Andy Mannle | Posted 07.20.2011

Read More: Energy, Environment, Newt Gingrich, Solar Energy, Scientific American, Oil Drilling, Clean Coal, Planyc, American Solutions, William McDonough, LEED Certification, Green Vision, Green Energy, Green Energy Economy, Safe Nuclear Power, Green News

Newt Gingrich is an ideas man. He's all about solutions. But by environmental solutions, he means solving problems the fossil fuel industry has with environmental regulation.

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Why We Dance: Bible Stories Of Mystical Movement

Rabbi Adam Jacobs | Posted 07.08.2011

Read More: King David, Kabbalah, Dance, Scientific American, Jewish Mysticism, Sarah Schneider, Ecstatic Dance, Dance as Prayer, Song and Dance, Kabbalah of Dance, Jewish Dance Practice, Mystical Dance, Judaism, Kabbalah of Dancing, Hasidic Dancing, Religion News

From a Judaic perspective, it is the soul's spontaneous desire to reach beyond its corporeal container and express its most sublime root in the highest realms.

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New Program Recruits 1000 Scientists To Work With Schools

GOOD | By Liz Dwyer | Posted 07.06.2011

Read More: 1, Science, 000 Scientists in 1, Stem, Scientific American, Science Education, 000 Days Program, Education News

It's not easy for a teacher to randomly call up the biology department at the local college and ask, "Do you have someone who can come talk to my stud...

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Grad Student Uses HIV DNA To Make Music

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Scientific American, Hiv, The South, College News, AOL News, HIV Music, Alexandra Pajak, Sounds of HIV, University of Georgia, Aids, Video, College News

University of Georgia graduate student Alexandra Pajak's new instrumental CD draws inspiration from an unlikely source -- HIV. "Sounds of HIV," rele...

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Imagining a World Without Oil

Alexia Parks | Posted 05.25.2011

We have seen the deadly results and heartbreak in the Gulf of Mexico from every angle and are shocked and moved by what we see. But is it enough to get us to move from inertia into personal action and social change?

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Religious and Secular Belief: All The Same To The Brain

scientificamerican.com | Allison Bond | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: God in the Brain, Sam Harris, Secularism, MRI Brain Scans, Fmri, Psychology, Searching for God in the Brain, Religious Beliefs, Religion, Neuroscience, Scientific American, Brain, Secular, Christianity, Christians, Mri, Religious Belief, Belief, Religion News

"Believing the sun is a star is rather the same as believing Jesus was born of a virgin," says Sam Harris, co-author of a study that suggests that the...

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Woo Woo Is a Step Ahead of (Bad) Science

Deepak Chopra | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: John Maddox, Fundamentalism, Michael Shermer, Materialism, Life-After-Death, Neuroscience, Scientific American, Charles Darwin, Science, Evolution, Albert Einstein, Healthy Living News

For those who aren't familiar with the term, "woo woo" is a derogatory reference to almost any form of unconventional thinking, aimed by professional skeptics.

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Focus: Should it be on Copenhagen or Calera?

Alexia Parks | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Netherlands, Australia, Cement, Green Cement, Copenhagen 2009, Brent Constantz, Saudi Arabia, Department of Energy, Scientific American, Masdar City, Engineering News-Record, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Calera, Power-Gen, California, Green News

Today's most interesting Climate Change conversation may not be taking place in policy discussions in Copenhagen, but at the Power-Gen International conference in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Food Shortages The Biggest Threat To Civilization: Scientific American

Scientific American | Lester R. Brown | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Food Shortages, Scientific American, Food Shortages Global Instability, World News

The biggest threat to global stability is the potential for food crises in poor countries to cause government collapse....

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