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The first person to come up with the idea of global warming was a 19th-Century Swedish chemist.
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A conversation with the writer and environmental activist.
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If American science education is to move forward, American culture needs to stop caricaturing scientists as socially awkward villains.
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New research on the underlying causes of autism could soon lead to earlier diagnoses and better treatments.
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The geneticist feels for parents who seek causes for their children’s autism in vaccinations. Unfortunately, no evidence yet supports the theory.
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Why is the risk of autism higher in boys than girls? Why do older parents tend to have more autistic children? New genetic research attempts to answer some of the […]
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The genetics professor describes one of the world’s most complex and controversial disorders.
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The brother of a childhood friend inspired Michael Wigler’s research into the minds of those who are, “in wondrous ways, very different from us.”
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New technology fueled by genomic research could soon make a simple blood test for cancer a part of ordinary visits to the doctor.
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The revolution sparked by the Human Genome Project will soon produce more genetic information than our computers can currently handle.
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A conversation with the genetics professor at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
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The economist remembers a famous Theodore Roosevelt quote: “Fear the emergence of a financial aristocracy.”
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Because of structural changes, crises could now become more frequent, and the most obvious source of danger now is in emerging markets.
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The system of beliefs and incentives caused the financial crisis, says Simon Johnson.
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A core group of bankers have become so powerful they can do enormous damage to society—and they really don’t care.
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At a White House gathering in early 2009, the administration bailed out the banking system without addressing the problems on Wall Street that caused the financial meltdown.
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A conversation with MIT professor and Peter Institute for International Economics senior fellow.
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Twitter or no Twitter, our social networks are basically as small and close as they were in ancient Rome.
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To succeed in business, you don’t want to be too densely interconnected with entities that resemble you—or too diffusely linked to entities that don’t resemble you.
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Influencing tastes across social networks is a tricky business: a love of “Love Actually” spreads differently than a love of “Pulp Fiction.”
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Social networks “magnify whatever they’re seeded with”—from germs to altruism to a diet of muffins and beer.
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Like atoms in a molecule, we’re all linked together. Studying the complex matrix that results can illuminate everything from bucket brigades to Bernie Madoff.
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The social networks we form add up to a giant “human superorganism.”
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A conversation with the Harvard physician and social scientist.
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Why has the “Life of Pi” author been sending novels to the Canadian prime minister?
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What can be done to make boys and young men more interested in reading books?
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When your novel gets a negative review, “it’s your entire being that is negated. And that hurts.” But you have to learn to let it go.
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There’s no formula to writing. The key thing is simply to read, says the novelist. “The best teacher is a cheap, little Penguin classic.”
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A tiny germ of an idea leads to research, which leads to further ideas and then more research. Eventually the writer has hundreds of pages of notes to work from.
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Martel never bases his characters on real people—they’re always a vehicle for something he wants to express.
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