What kind of coffee you buy matters a lot to birds — key indicators of biodiversity in the tropics which likely provide many environmental and economic services.
If you’re always above average, it’s probably time to redefine what’s normal. The new normal for Earth’s climate is systematically rising temperatures.
Emancipation is about financial security too
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China supplanted the US as Africa’s biggest partner in 2009, but the Americans are hoping to catch up.
NBC newscaster John Cameron Swayze was television’s first “anchor man” – though not for presenting the news. The term referred to his status as permanent panelist of the quiz show Who Said That?
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In the beginning, newscasters weren’t even visible to TV news viewers. With Walter Cronkite, everything changed.
Two views of Ceres acquired by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft ten hours apart on Feb. 12, 2015, from a distance of about 52,000 miles as the dwarf planet rotated.
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Kids are flu super spreaders, which is why locating vaccination programs in schools can protect whole communities.
Former US Poet Laureate Philip Levine (1928-2015) was down to earth and humble. But he spared no rage towards those he deemed selfish and narcissistic.
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Kate Daniels, the director of Vanderbilt’s creative writing program, recalls the life and work of her mentor, a man “devoted…to creating gritty and empathetic portraits of American blue collar workers.”
Bullet holes from the Copenhagen attack.
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Cybersecurity at the national level requires information sharing across industries and government – emerging models how this can be done effectively.
Respected scientists within the recently formed National Research Council proposed building orphanages to study nature vs nurture with respect to racial differences.
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The history of race science is a history of racist science, as epitomized by this proposed but never carried-out experiment from the early 20th century.
Indies to the rescue, the quiet power of foreign language films, Gen-X’s crowning moment. All – and more – are covered by our experts, who weigh in on this year’s Oscars.