Deadly Convenience: Keyless Cars and Their Carbon Monoxide Toll
Weaned from using a key, drivers have left cars running in garages, spewing exhaust into homes. Despite years of deaths, regulatory action has lagged.
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Opinion | Donald Trump’s Lizard Wisdom
A shady business history pays foreign policy dividends.
California Will Require Solar Power for New Homes
The state mandate, to take effect in 2020, is the first in the country and is expected to add $8,000 to $12,000 to the cost of a house.
Eavesdropping on Beauvoir, Sartre and Their Circle of Friends
“Left Bank: Art, Passion, and the Rebirth of Paris, 1940-50” is Agnès Poirier’s impressionistic history of the rebirth of postwar French culture.
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Philosophy, Science and Religion: Religion and Science | Coursera
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How Windmills as Wide as Jumbo Jets Are Making Clean Energy Mainstream
The global wind turbine industry has transformed from a collection of small companies in Denmark to corporations pulling off enormous feats of engineering.
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Opinion | A Man Set Himself on Fire. We Barely Noticed.
If we can give our newspapers over to gun-toting maniacs for days on end, we can spare some attention for this.
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Lance Armstrong Settles Federal Fraud Case for $5 Million
Accused of defrauding the Postal Service by doping while under its sponsorship, Armstrong averted a trial next month by agreeing to the settlement.
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Can Dirt Save the Earth?
Agriculture could pull carbon out of the air and into the soil — but it would mean a whole new way of thinking about how to tend the land.
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You Share Everything With Your Bestie. Even Brain Waves.
Scientists have made astonishing discoveries about the nature and evolution of friendship. Without it, humans suffer significant physical and emotional damage.
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