Environmental liberals and conservatives are bashing each other in print. They have the same ostensible goal — saving the planet from despoliation — but very different strategies for doing it.
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Genome is not a map to the human self
“Today we are learning the language in which God created life,” gushed President Bill Clinton. “The first great technological triumph of the 21st century,” purred British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
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Those beautiful, terrible viruses
We can’t do without bacteria. Some of them cause mischief but others are essential for our survival.
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Scientists have ways to avoid superstition
It isn’t easy to draw the boundaries between reason and superstition, Voltaire observed. One person’s dogma is another person’s nonsense.
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Keeping an eye on purveyors of genetically engineered food
Humanity stands on the brink of an agricultural revolution potentially as great as the one that occurred when our ancestors gave up a hunter-gatherer way of life and settled down as farmers.
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Doomsday apparently will be dark and quiet
We have been bombarded lately with doomsday predictions for the end of the world. Y2K came and went with hardly a blip. The so-called Earth-shattering planetary alignment of May passed without a ripple. And, of course, various fundamentalist cults still wait patiently for the long anticipated Rapture.
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‘Normal science’ needs to study awareness
In 1905, Albert Einstein published a paper in which he proposed that all observers will measure the same velocity for light, regardless of any motion of the observer or the source of light.
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Bee boy showed how nature explains itself
Gilbert White’s “The Natural History of Selborne” was published in the year of the French Revolution and not long after Britain lost her 13 colonies in America. You’ll find none of these earthshaking events in the book.
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In ideal town, bomb’s toll lingers
Until the fires hit last week [in May 2000], this town slumbered in post-atomic anonymity, stuck away on a quiet, wooded plateau on a shoulder of the Jemez Mountains, 30 miles northwest of Santa Fe.
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Did language drive society or vice versa?
“A challenge for evolutionary biology, therefore, is to provide a detailed mathematical account of how natural selection can enable the emergence of human language from animal communication.”