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Masks and Emasculation: Why Some Men Refuse to Take Safety Precautions
They think it makes them look weak, and avoiding that is evidently more important to them than demonstrating responsible behavior
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How a Landmark Physics Paper from the 1970s Uncannily Describes the COVID-19 Pandemic
Phil Anderson’s article “More Is Different” describes how different levels of complexity require new ways of thinking. And as the virus multiplies and spreads, that’s just what the human race desperately needs...
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The Fight against COVID-19 Threatens to Cause Collateral Health Damage
The pandemic is no excuse to abandon chronic disease management and prevention
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The Problem with Levees
They can be very valuable tools for managing flood risk—but we learned a century ago that relying on them exclusively won’t work
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Lost Cities and Climate Change
Some people say “the climate has changed before,” as though that should be reassuring. It’s not
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Climate Change? “Meh,” Say Gentoo Penguins
Their ability to adapt can help guide how we respond to a warming world
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How to Talk Effectively about Climate Change
Our conversations have been stuck, but a new book lays out a number of ways to get them flowing productively
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Special Report: What’s Next for the Arctic?
In 1894 John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh—who later went on to garner the 1904 Nobel Prize in Physics—penned an appreciation in Scientific American about the work of John Tyndall, an Irish physics professor, mathematician, geologist, atmospheric scientist, public lecturer and mountaineer...
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How the Trump Administration Is Torpedoing Climate Science
One way is to attack the inconvenient truths in the authoritative National Climate Assessment
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Another Reason to Protect Elephants: Frogs Love Their Feet
Well, more specifically their footprints. New research finds that elephants create foot-shaped habitats for breeding frogs as they travel through the forest in Myanmar
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$2.5 Million Taken from National Parks for Trump's Bombastic 4th of July Display
This event is costing America a lot more than her dignity
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Adapting to Climate Change in Alaska
In the first of three posts, an ecologist looks at how citizens and planners are responding to the threat
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John Wesley Powell, Great Explorer of the American West
He was the first to survey the Colorado River, 150 years ago—and his ideas about water resources in that arid region were prescient
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