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Climate change and the media

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Betsy Wade, who in 1956 became the first woman to edit news copy at the New York Times Even in the 19th century, some scientists were foreseeing that adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere via human activity could cause the planet to warm rapidly. The French...
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Where is everybody?

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This is a very cool (true) story: In the summer of 1950 at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, Fermi and co-workers Emil Konopinski, Edward Teller, and Herbert York had one or several casual lunchtime conversation(s).Herb York does not remember a previous conversation, although he says it makes sense given how all...
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World War I Museum

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I did want to mention before too much time passed that I visited the World War I Museum in Kansas City a couple of weeks ago. It's a very popular museum and largely a good one. The two videos are really outstanding. I mean first rate....
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America’s Love of Idiot Grifters

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Another major legacy of the United States to discuss on July 4 is our national love for grifters who exist primarily to tell rich white people that they are better than everyone else, that they deserve everything they have, and that they are special. There are...
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