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Mon, 17 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT By Dana Scarton Mon, 17 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/env/feature/2009/08/17/vick/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/env/feature/2009/08/17/vick/index.html?source=rss Science says we'll be healthier if we do, but some argue there's room in a healthy life for a good grudge By Andrew Leonard Mon, 17 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2009/09/28/guinessometrics/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2009/09/28/guinessometrics/index.html?source=rss How a master brewer forged new ground in the quantitative progress of science By Amanda Fortini Mon, 17 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/09/25/cold_weather_babies/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/09/25/cold_weather_babies/index.html?source=rss Why do babies born between December and February have a bleaker life outcome than those born in other months? By Bill Bunn Mon, 17 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/env/good_life/2009/08/13/shampoo/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/env/good_life/2009/08/13/shampoo/index.html?source=rss Sure, a couple ingredients clean your hair. But the rest are a veritable toxic dump on your head Mon, 17 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/video_dog/big_think/2009/08/10/bt_katz/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/video_dog/big_think/2009/08/10/bt_katz/index.html?source=rss The Yale researcher discusses why society has created high-calorie cravings and how to normalize our diets By Amy Benfer Mon, 17 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/08/28/male_contraception/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/08/28/male_contraception/index.html?source=rss The elusive birth control pill for men may be as much about gender as research By Frieda Klotz Mon, 17 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2009/08/11/science_women_beauty/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2009/08/11/science_women_beauty/index.html?source=rss Are women really getting more beautiful, as the UK Times suggested? Not really, says the man behind the research By Katharine Mieszkowski Mon, 17 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/env/feature/2009/08/07/the_cove_dolphins/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/env/feature/2009/08/07/the_cove_dolphins/index.html?source=rss SeaWorld and aquariums, implicated in the shocking new documentary about dolphin slaughter, "The Cove," strike back By Katharine Mieszkowski Mon, 17 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/env/feature/2009/07/27/bluefin_tuna/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/env/feature/2009/07/27/bluefin_tuna/index.html?source=rss Will bluefin tuna survive our insatiable appetite for status and taste? By Joseph Romm Mon, 17 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/env/feature/2009/07/20/apollo_11/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/env/feature/2009/07/20/apollo_11/index.html?source=rss It's time to save planet Earth. And our inspiration, once again, comes from JFK By Jacoba Charles Mon, 17 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/env/feature/2009/07/14/jon_jarvis/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/env/feature/2009/07/14/jon_jarvis/index.html?source=rss Obama says politics will no longer cloud science. But his choice for national parks director is facing that charge By Abrahm Lustgarten Mon, 17 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/env/feature/2009/07/14/gas/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/env/feature/2009/07/14/gas/index.html?source=rss Are Democrats going wobbly as energy companies resist curbs on the natural gas drilling practice known as fracking? By Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum Mon, 17 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/env/feature/2009/07/13/science_illiteracy/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/env/feature/2009/07/13/science_illiteracy/index.html?source=rss Don't just blame poor education for our nation's scientific illiteracy -- but our politics and pop culture By Charles Siebert Mon, 17 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/env/feature/2009/07/11/wauchula_woods_accord/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/env/feature/2009/07/11/wauchula_woods_accord/index.html?source=rss How I learned about my own animality (and "humanzees," Stalin and scary creationists) by living with a chimp By Katharine Mieszkowski Mon, 17 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/env/feature/2009/07/10/robert_stavins_interview/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/env/feature/2009/07/10/robert_stavins_interview/index.html?source=rss As the debate over the Waxman-Markey climate bill rages on, Harvard's top environmental economist sheds some light By Jonathon Keats Mon, 17 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/env/feature/2009/07/07/balance_of_nature/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/env/feature/2009/07/07/balance_of_nature/index.html?source=rss It may drive ecologists crazy to talk about a balance in nature. But it's more necessary than ever By Katharine Mieszkowski Mon, 17 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/env/feature/2009/07/01/overfishing/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/env/feature/2009/07/01/overfishing/index.html?source=rss Overfishing continues at a shocking rate, as countries break one environmental promise after another By Megan Wilde Mon, 17 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/env/feature/2009/06/30/horse_slaughter/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/env/feature/2009/06/30/horse_slaughter/index.html?source=rss U.S. horses are meeting gruesome ends abroad, while the debate rages on: Are horses 1,500 pounds of food or friend? By Joseph Romm Mon, 17 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/env/feature/2009/06/27/waxman_markey/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/env/feature/2009/06/27/waxman_markey/index.html?source=rss Passage of the first climate bill in the House is a big first step to cut global warming. But it's not enough By Steve Paulson Mon, 17 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/env/atoms_eden/2009/06/24/evolution_of_god/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/env/atoms_eden/2009/06/24/evolution_of_god/index.html?source=rss In an interview with something to offend everyone, Robert Wright explains why religion has given us a fickle deity By Heather Havrilesky Mon, 17 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/iltw/2009/06/21/real_estate/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/iltw/2009/06/21/real_estate/index.html?source=rss "Real Estate Intervention" brings tough love to homeowners while "The Lazy Environmentalist" makes going green easy By Katharine Mieszkowski Mon, 17 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/env/feature/2009/06/18/overeating/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/env/feature/2009/06/18/overeating/index.html?source=rss We do it for the buzz. Like drug addicts. How do we stop the constant craving? By Katharine Mieszkowski Mon, 17 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/env/feature/2009/06/16/small_cars_safety/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/env/feature/2009/06/16/small_cars_safety/index.html?source=rss Critics who whine Obama is outlawing big cars for dangerous compacts are riding shotgun with empty barrels. By Peter Dizikes Mon, 17 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/env/feature/2009/06/01/gavin_schmidt/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/env/feature/2009/06/01/gavin_schmidt/index.html?source=rss A NASA climatologist explains why global warming is more than starving polar bears, and skeptics are simplistic. By Katharine Mieszkowski Mon, 17 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/env/feature/2009/05/30/climate_change_crisis/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/env/feature/2009/05/30/climate_change_crisis/index.html?source=rss A controversial report from Kofi Annan's group says global warming is killing hundreds of thousands a year.