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It's The Emotional Maturity Factor, Stupid!

Steven G. Brant | Posted 05.25.2011

Steven G. Brant

John McCain's temperament has been a side-bar issue for some time now, as people wonder if he would take us to war unnecessarily ("bomb bomb Iran"). S...

How to Green Your Genes

Christopher Gavigan | Posted 05.25.2011

Christopher Gavigan

Studies suggest that what we eat, how we live, and what our environment exposes us to today could have an impact on the health of our distant descendants.

Let My GOOPers Go

Ellis Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011

Ellis Weiner

The Republican Party, in order to save itself, should do what the children of Israel did to save themselves upon their exodus from Egypt. They wandered in the desert for forty years.

Door Number 1 or Door Number 2?

Matthew Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

Matthew Stein

In the 1800's, millions of people decided that slavery was an evil whose time had passed, and they put Lincoln in power to end it. If we proactively manage the transition away from fossil fuels, they will meet the same end.

Do Americans Think - Or Just Act?

Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 05.25.2011

Logan Nakyanzi Pollard

What I'm really saying is Americans are unconscious. You can see it in the verbs. This isn't a value judgment, I am just intrigued by what gets in and...

The Oil Crisis Is (Still) Not Like A Toothache: Fighting The "Drill Now" Rhetoric

Martin Bosworth | Posted 05.25.2011

Martin Bosworth

Many Americans realize that destroying environmental resources to allow more domestic drilling is a psychological panacea -- a placebo to make us feel like "something is being done."

McCain 2014

Lizz Winstead | Posted 05.25.2011

Lizz Winstead

2008-05-20-beargrrking.jpgWhile John McCain has laid out his wonderful vision for the world in 2013, I had to ask, but what about 2014?

Microchips Everywhere: a Future Vision

AP | TODD LEWAN | Posted 05.25.2011

Here's a vision of the not-so-distant future: _Microchips with antennas will be embedded in virtually everything you buy, wear, drive and read, allow...