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Abusing Beagles and Calling It Science
Animal experiments produce medical breakthroughs along with unmeasured agony. A new book scrutinizes the industry as animal-rights politics shift.
Dec 29, 2025
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We're Quickly Losing Our Need To Read
Now that the media superhighway delivers every kind of content on equal terms, people want to take in words with their ears, not their eyes.
Sep 3, 2025
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How To Think About Nuclear Energy Now
An environmentalist decides we need more uranium-powered electricity. His book is a model of honest analysis in an argumentative age.
Jan 20, 2025
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Word History Is Human History
The Oxford English Dictionary shows how changes in language mirror changes in society.
Dec 2, 2024
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Under Trump, Inflation Bonds Are A Buy
Coming decades offer a higher risk of rising price inflation. Investors can insure against it while earning government-guaranteed, inflation-beating…
Nov 10, 2024
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Death and Caring in the Ebola Epidemic
Obstetrician Benjamin Black was in Sierra Leone for the worst known outbreak of a horrible disease. West Africa's crisis was virtue's opportunity. Many…
Jun 4, 2024
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The Search For History's Ordinary Folk
Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, who died last year, discovered a minutely detailed medieval world in the Vatican archives. His kind of social history lives on.
Apr 24, 2024
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The mental shift that launched modernity
Maybe you don't like math, but math likes you. Society had to learn to think quantitatively before scientists and entrepreneurs could improve the world.
Jan 31, 2024
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