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Tea Party Passions

Theda Skocpol analyzes the politics and demographics of the Tea Party.
12.16.11

The Biology of Right and Wrong

Brains scans reveal that In moral decision-making, people rely on emotion to guide choices in some situations and rationality in others.
12.16.11

How the Web Affects Memory

Psychology professor Daniel Wegner has found that access to information online changes what people remember.
10.19.11

What We Know About Wealth

Harvard Business School professor Michael Norton finds Americans prefer a more equal distribution of wealth.
10.19.11

Life: the Edited Version

George Church has developed tools for large-scale editing of the genome as fast and easy as word processing.
10.19.11

A Bet and a Black Hole

Astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics confirm the presence of a black hole in the constellation Cygnus.
10.19.11

The Veil’s Revival

Veils have seen a resurgence among young Muslim women worldwide. Is this a step backward, or a marker of progressive politics?
8.23.11

High-Tech Art Sleuthing

Conservators are using laser-assisted pigment analysis to identify and authenticate the work of modern artists.
8.19.11

Snuffing Flames with Electricity

Harvard scientists have discovered how to extinguish flames by pushing them off their fuel source with an electric field.
6.16.11

Women and Alcohol

Studying the differences in addiction and recovery between men and women
6.16.11

Swerves

Stephen Greenblatt traces the influence of Lucretius, through De Rerum Natura, on modern thought.
6.16.11
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