Atheists The best thing about writing a story as a journalist is that you get to interact with astute readers who are never reticient about telling you what you missed in your reporting. My story, “ The Neuroscience of True Grit ,” the cover in the current issue, talks about what we know, and what we’re still trying to find out, about psychological resilience: the thing that
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Feed SubscriptionLand Locked: U.S. Wilderness Protection Act Benefits the Climate–Hunters Like It, Too
Dear EarthTalk : I understand that Congress passed legislation not too long ago that protected a few million acres of wilderness areas, parks and wild rivers, in part to help offset climate change.
Read More »Gollum Shmollum: Kinect Hack Does CGI Animation on the Cheap
An enterprising team of animators has hacked Microsoft 's Kinect sensor suite to do something tangibly amazing: They're using the cheap hardware as a motion-replication system to power CGI characters.
Read More »String Query: Physicists Prove to Be of Many Minds about a Unified Theory of the Universe
NEW YORK CITY--Amid a panel discussion about string theory and other candidates for the theory of everything--the long-sought system that would unify the four forces of physics--Brian Greene said something that sounded a bit curious. "If you asked me, 'Do I believe in string theory?'" began Greene, one of string theory's most famous proponents
Read More »Giving up on the "ghost cat": Eastern cougar subspecies declared extinct
Last verifiably seen in 1938, when the final "ghost cat" was shot and killed in Maine, the eastern cougar ( Puma concolor couguar ) has now been declared extinct by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS)
Read More »PGT: Tiger says swing revamp process ‘fun’
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Read More »PGT: Crane gives his take on slow play (video)
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Read More »PGT: Tiger deflects criticisms as ‘Johnny being Johnny’
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Read More »PGT: Kerr commits to LPGA’s Founders Cup
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Read More »Can the U.S. build a clean, green economic machine?
Can cleaner sources of energy not only power our economy but also drive a recovery from the Great Recession? That's the question confronted by policymakers across the U.S.--and by debaters in the Intelligence Squared series hosted March 8 by New York University. [More]
Read More »Bicycle safety: 11 death-defying rules
Wearing a helmet is just one of several life-saving strategies for cyclists
Read More »Kids limiting Tiger’s schedule
PGT: "If you've been divorced with kids, then you'd understand," Tiger Woods says of why he isn't playing in more tourneys.
Read More »Live Event: Energy at the Movies
Nuclear power is evil. Solar power is our savior. Or…is it the other way around
Read More »Seven-year itch now down to three years: Why?
Lack of racy underwear and toenail clippings on floor among couples' complaints
Read More »Sara Rue pays-it-forward on weight wedding show
Actress, Jenny Craig spokesperson known for losing 50 pounds says she has much in common with overweight contestants fighting it out on reality show she hosts
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