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From our tiniest cells performing constant “suicide programs,” to the adaptive measures behind the grand sweep of evolutionary history, death is what truly drives life.
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Humans have developed elaborate rituals, institutions and even theories of immortality to lessen the life-long shock that is knowledge of death. What’s behind this primal urge and how does an […]
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Our atoms are formed from particles with seemingly infinite lifespans, so why do organisms die? The NYU professor explains the biology of death.
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A conversation with the author and professor of biology at New York University.
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The International Energy Agency chief economist’s biggest fear: that sharing the world’s primary commodities could spark another global war.
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We have to punish the extensive use of fossil fuels and provide incentives for the clean energy technologies.
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We have to leave oil before oil leaves us, says Fatih Birol.
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Whatever NYC loses to gentrification, the cartoonist argues, it maintains the same vitality it had throughout the whole 20th century.
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The role of political cartoonists has largely been usurped by Stewart and Colbert. But what should satirists even target these days?
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Comics now are every bit as vibrant as they were in their Depression heyday. And yet for the artists, cartooning still “ain’t a living.”
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How did a cartoonist “trying to overthrow the government” end up creating both the sex drama “Carnal Knowledge” and the illustrations for kid-lit classic “The Phantom Tollbooth”?
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Forget fancy pens: in his early career, the award-winning cartoonist used sharpened dowels from the local meat market.
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Back when MLK Jr. was caricatured as a violent radical and the U.S. was plunging into Vietnam, cartoonist Jules Feiffer vented his anger with an editorial freedom that few publications […]
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How the legendary cartoonist got started at the Village Voice, and why his work struck a nerve in a decade when “liberals didn’t understand that they had First Amendment rights.”
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The gaming expert waxes nostalgic for the wireframe universe of the arcade game she loved most as a kid.
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The modern workplace is a crime against the human spirit. Deepening our understanding of what truly motivates people will make work more productive—and more playful.
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Those who think newspaper reading will be the dominant use of the iPad are fooling themselves, says Nicole Lazzaro. It’s going to be gaming—especially two-player gaming “like that Star Wars […]
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Nicole Lazzaro explains how she’s trying to reconcile fun gameplay with a social message. (And, as a bonus, drops a reference to nerd-film classic “The Powers of Ten.”)
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For years, video game culture has basically been a boys’ club. Nicole Lazzaro’s work will help change that trend forever.
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Based on the seven emotions we can identify in the face, researchers have identified the four factors that make for an addictive game.
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In the dazzling heat of the desert, gamer Nicole Lazzaro was struck by a vision of human fun throughout the ages.
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A conversation with the founder and president of XEODesign.
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Robert Kirshner hopes he can convince some of tomorrow’s Wall Street bankers to become astronomers instead.
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In order to make his greatest discovery, Robert Kirshner had to overcome his own intellectual prejudice—and his mother’s.
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It’s a back-of-the-auditorium kind of question, and scientists don’t have an answer for it yet. But they’re getting there, says Robert Kirshner.
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Not all nutty ideas are good science, says Robert Kirshner. But there’s a mystery in physics whose solution, when it arrives, will probably sound pretty weird at first.
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Robert Kirshner’s research into supernovae overturned decades of scientific assumptions about the universe, and how it is mysteriously expanding at a rapid rate.
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What’s floating around out there in the cosmological zoo? The Harvard astronomer describes the major objects visible via telescope and the naked eye.
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A conversation with the professor of astronomy at Harvard University.
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