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The beauties of religion need to be saved from both the true believers and the trendy atheists, argues compelling religious scholar James Carse.
By Steve Paulson
July 21, 2008
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As a naive pediatric resident, I couldn't believe it when the surgeon called back and said we don't treat those kinds of patients.
By Rahul K. Parikh, M.D.
July 16, 2008
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Follow these simple tips and you can drive your sky-high gasoline bill back down to earth.
By Pablo Päster
July 14, 2008
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Family doctors are a dying breed that is not being revived by medical students. This is the healthcare crisis the candidates should be talking about.
By Robert Burton
July 8, 2008
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Nature will do as nature does, but humans are to blame for the deadly Midwestern floods.
By Katharine Mieszkowski
July 3, 2008
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Of course they can, argues physicist and theologian Karl Giberson, if only many believers were more sophisticated and atheists less dogmatic.
By Vincent Rossmeier
July 1, 2008
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Americans must not allow global warming deniers to block the policies needed to avert catastrophic climate change. Our future is at stake.
By Joseph Romm
June 30, 2008
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What is the environmental fallout of fireworks?
By Pablo Päster
June 30, 2008
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When noise pollution is not making us sick and anxious, it is literally killing us. How do we turn it off?
By Katharine Mieszkowski
June 25, 2008
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The safety and economics of offshore drilling are distractions from the much larger challenges that humanity faces: Climate change and peak oil.
By Andrew Leonard
June 25, 2008
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It was 20 years ago that Congress heard the first serious warning about global warming. What can individuals do now?
By Pablo Päster
June 23, 2008
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Ask not what healthcare can do for you but what you can do, with incentives, for healthcare.
By Rahul K. Parikh, M.D.
June 19, 2008
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Determined to defeat lawsuits over addiction, the casino industry is funding research at a Harvard-affiliated lab.
By Eliza Strickland
June 16, 2008
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And genetically modified his goats and chickens to produce drugs for humans. But hold on. Should we be doing this to animals?
By Elizabeth Svoboda
June 11, 2008
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I'm planning my summer vacation. Is it more ecological to fly or drive?
By Pablo Päster
June 9, 2008
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"Bottlemania" author Elizabeth Royte explains how one of life's necessities became an extravagance, denounced by environmentalists and nuns alike.
By Katharine Mieszkowski
June 7, 2008
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Bringing the wolves back to the Rockies has been a huge success story. So why are we allowed to gun them down?
By Katharine Mieszkowski
May 27, 2008
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With childhood obesity at alarming rates, movie tie-ins to fast food are irresponsible. An open letter to George Lucas and Steven Spielberg.
By Rahul K. Parikh, M.D.
May 21, 2008
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Termites! Is there a way to get rid of them without turning my house into a gas chamber?
By Pablo Päster
May 19, 2008
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The coal industry has turned up the heat on its ad campaign and apparently McCain, Clinton and Obama are buying.
By Diane Silver
May 15, 2008
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Why is PBS airing Dr. Daniel Amen's self-produced infomercial for the prevention of Alzheimer's disease?
By Robert Burton
May 12, 2008
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When the locals cried green-wash, the elite developer cried class envy. Welcome to Paradise Valley.
By Fred Haefele
May 3, 2008
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Racial bias in doctors and healthcare workers is doing great harm. Is enough being done to stop it?
By Rahul K. Parikh, M.D.
April 22, 2008
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Intrigue. Power. Corruption. Death. Sex. The history of oil has nothing on that of the yellow fruit.
By Katharine Mieszkowski
April 19, 2008
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Bonobo porn, MRI sex, female Viagra. "Bonk" author Mary Roach on the scientific quest to understand arousal -- and how little we still know.
By Katharine Mieszkowski
April 4, 2008
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A deluge waiting to happen
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Stop the noise!
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Old McDonald had a pharm
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Waterlogged
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Indiana Jones and the kingdom of fat kids
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