Prolonged social isolation can do severe, long-lasting damage to the brain
We are already paying a high price for inequality, but it is just a down payment on what we will have to pay if we do not do something—and quickly. It is not just our economy that is at stake; we are risking our democracy.
It’s a lie that wasteful consumers cause the problem and that changing our individual habits can fix it
If hemisphere-spanning currents are slowing, greater flooding and extreme weather could be at hand.
Math can be experienced as play much as music is—just what’s needed to enlarge the tribe of creative problem solvers in mathematics and other human disciplines
A sharp kink in the jet stream is driving the storm's strong winds and precipitation
Evolutionary theorists propose that female desire for domineering males helped create a patriarchal world
Sometimes it take a little bit of humor to see that clear ideas can get buried inside convoluted sentences
Daniel Kammen decries Trump’s attitude and policies on human rights and sustainability
In 1925 a Tennessee teacher of biology named Thomas Scopes was tried for teaching the theory of evolution. An expert witness at the trial relates how evolution lost in court but won in the eyes of the nation.
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