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Health and Science
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Why White Tigers Should Go Extinct
Everything you’ve been told about this exotic, royal, endangered species is wrong.
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The Great Schism in the Environmental Movement
Can modern greens loosen nature’s grip on environmentalism?
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Napoleon Wasn’t Defeated by the Russians
Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture gives too much credit to cannons.
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Is It Better To See a Younger Doctor or an Older Doctor?
A mini-Explainer on youth versus experience in medical practice.
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Bizarre Weather Around the Solar System
Hurricanes, tornadoes, and sulfuric-acid rain.
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Why Rivers No Longer Burn
The Clean Water Act is one of the greatest successes in environmental law.
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Specialist Knowledge Is Useless and Unhelpful
When data prediction is a game, the experts lose out.
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Scientists Ask Blunt Question on Everyone’s Mind
Why Earth and atmospheric scientists are swearing up a storm and getting arrested.
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Rocky Mountain Contact High
A mini-Explainer on the potency of secondhand marijuana smoke.
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Past Pandemics Are in Our Genes
What koalas can teach us about human evolution and disease.
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Can You Really Drink Yourself Blind?
Bonus: Can you cure yourself by drinking even more?
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What Is the World’s Most Dangerous Animal?
Sharks? Lions? Grizzly bears? Try bats.
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Being Transgender Is No Longer a Disorder
The American Psychiatric Association salutes the T in LGBT.
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Goodnight, Moon
What would happen if we detonated a nuclear device on the lunar surface? Would it push the moon out of orbit?
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What Happens When You Blow Up a Mountain?
The heroes and heartbreak of Appalachia.
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Finally, a Victory Against Mountaintop Removal
The first crack in a firewall that has protected big coal for decades.
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How To Make a Bundle on Energy Efficiency
Wall Street’s new strategy for investing in good deeds.
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What Obama Can Accomplish Without Congress
A dozen ways to fight climate change right now.
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Clean Coal Isn’t a Joke
Look past the fossil-fuel lobby’s empty, cynical slogan. The technology is there.
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The Chemistry of the Suppression of Desire
What is going on in the brain of a cheater?
