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Brainism: Understanding Our Recent Obsession With Stress and the Mind
One Nation Under Stress: The Trouble With Stress as an Idea By Dana Becker (Oxford University Press) Neuro: The New Brain Sciences and the Management of the Mind By Nikolas Rose and Joelle Abi-Rached...
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Forget the Maps: Why All the Data in the World Won’t Make You a Better Traveler
Listen to Life in the Data, Episode 3, featuring Paul Theroux: In the absence of information the only certainty in travel is suspense, with the suggestion of risk, and the possibility of danger. The...
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Why Do You Hoard?
Orange-juice containers, newspapers, six-pack cardboard carriers, plastic and paper bags, green compost bins, pill bottles, rain gear, old New Yorker magazines, and running shoes fill Greg Samson’s...
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Pound Foolish
Fat is killing us, or so we’re told. Americans’ sugar-saturated diets and couch-bound lifestyles have apparently produced an epidemic of heart disease and diabetes, cancer and infertility, depression...
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Datebook: What’s Happening in May and June—and Why It Matters
MAY 10 First 2013 Solar Eclipse “For millennia,” according to NASA, “solar eclipses have been interpreted as portents of doom by virtually every known civilization.” Today, hundreds of “eclipse...
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Conference Call: What’s Happening in May and June—and Why It Matters
MAY 17-19 HackMiami 2013 Hackers Conference (Miami, Florida) Information-security professionals join nerds and novices to discuss “cutting-edge tools, techniques, and methodologies … at the forefront...
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California’s Gun Medicine
Night after night, dressed in a black jumpsuit and a bulletproof vest, John Marsh knocks on the doors of violent felons and mentally ill people and asks them for their guns. People hand them over more...
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What Does It Take for Traumatized Kids to Thrive?
Paine High School was a shambles when Jim Sporleder arrived to serve as its new principal in the spring of 2007. Housed in a run-down, brown-brick building with metal security screens on its windows,...
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Why Focusing on Exports Doesn’t Make Economic Sense
In January 2010, a year after taking office, President Barack Obama unveiled a singularly ambitious idea for boosting the economy. “Tonight, we set a new goal,” he said in his State of the Union...
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Why Would a Medical Doctor Embrace an Unproven Treatment?
Face down on a massage table, a 30-something corporate attorney grips a tiny vial of clear liquid and breathes deeply, again and again. My wife, Kathryn, an internal medicine specialist whose practice...
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The Shoppers of Babel
We live in a world of global brands but local tastes. Arabs tend to drink their tea slowly; Indians load theirs with spices and sugar. So Lipton ships a different optimized formula to each, under its...
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The Big One
One percent of all U.S. dairy farms produce 35 percent of America’s milk. One American milk cow produces an average of 22,000 pounds of milk per year—up from 8,000 pounds per year in 1965. One percent...
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The Melting-Pot Gazette
Seventeen people squeeze around a dark wood table in a low, redbrick office building on the outskirts of Los Angeles, picking at a potluck dinner of fried chicken, pad thai, and Cherry Coke. The group...
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Alone With Everyone Else
Ever pretended to be entranced by a Portuguese art film that everyone else in the theater seemed to find fascinating? Ever agreed with your dinner companions that a pricey bottle of wine was exquisite,...
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How Gallium Nitride Could Help Power the World
Umesh Mishra thinks day in and day out about power conversion—the trillions of adjustments in voltage, frequency, and current made daily to deliver electricity from wall outlets to computers, TVs,...
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