Guest Thinkers — August 16, 2010

Round Up of News Coverage of Climate Bill

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At Knight Science Journalism Tracker, Charlie Petit has a pretty comprehensive round-up and commentary on news coverage of this week’s (failed) climate change legislation.

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Books

The rise and fall of John Wilkes Booth: America’s first celebrity assassin

Before becoming America’s most infamous assassin, John Wilkes Booth was a magnetic actor who was beloved by audiences and courted by critics.

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Mini Philosophy

Fringe or frontier: Is our current scientific paradigm still the best fit?

A paradigm should be elastic enough to accommodate new data and broad enough to explain the world. For Rupert Sheldrake, ours does neither.

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Books

What happens when you follow the Bible literally for a whole year?

A.J. Jacobs looks back at what he learned about religion, himself, and modern American culture during “The Year of Living Biblically.”

A man in a suit sits in front of American flags, his face partially shadowed and filtered in yellow tones.

The Future

What a historian in 2100 might say about Trump’s America

Trump may make America great again — just not in the way he had intended.

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The Future

What is The Great Progression: 2025 to 2050?

Tech expert Peter Leyden argues that we have a historic opportunity to harness AI and other transformative technologies in order to make a much better world over the next 25 years.

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