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Is the Cure for Cancer Inside You?

Claudia Steinman saw her husband’s BlackBerry blinking in the dark. It had gone untouched for several days, in a bowl beside his keys, the last thing on anybody’s mind. But about an hour before…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 21, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (805 words)

How a Gun-Loving West Texas Girl Learned to Fear Assault Weapons

I love guns. I'm from West Texas -- most of us harbor respect for guns, if not outright love. I vacillate between the high sixties and the mid eighties, which is good for a woman who only gets to…
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2865 words)
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Can a Jellyfish Unlock the Secret of Immortality?

The "immortal jellyfish" can transform itself back into a polyp and begin life anew. After more than 4,000 years — almost since the dawn of recorded time, when Utnapishtim told Gilgamesh that the…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 28, 2012
LENGTH: 26 minutes (6581 words)

Where Will The Next Pandemic Come From? And How Can We Stop It?

Out of the wild The Next Threat Gary Ombler/Getty Images This article is adapted from David Quammen's new book, Spillover, available now. You can purchase it here. In June 2008, a Dutch woman named…
LENGTH: 22 minutes (5575 words)

Bots on The Ground

Bots on The Ground In the Field of Battle (Or Even Above It), Robots Are a Soldier's Best Friend By Joel Garreau Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, May 6, 2007 The most effective way to find and…
PUBLISHED: May 5, 2007
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2941 words)

The New MakerBot Replicator Might Just Change Your World

MakerBot cofounder Bre Pettis says his new 3-D printer, the sleek Replicator 2 (shown at right), has a design that’s “Darth Vader driving KITT while being airlifted by a Nighthawk spy…
PUBLISHED: Sept. 19, 2012
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2953 words)
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Beyond the Matrix

On the monitor screen, Tom Hanks’s eyes, in extreme closeup, flickered through a complicated sequence of emotions: hatred, fear, anger, doubt. “Cut!” Lana Wachowski shouted. The crew on Stage 9 at…
PUBLISHED: Sept. 10, 2012
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1025 words)

Politics: Greed and Debt: The True Story of Mitt Romney and Bain Capital

Politics: Greed and Debt: The True Story of Mitt Romney and Bain Capital Mitt Romney illustrationBy Matt TaibbiAugust 29, 2012 | 7:00am EDT Photo Credit: Illustration by Robert GrossmanThe great…
LENGTH: 31 minutes (7932 words)

Rachel Maddow's Quiet War

Rachel MaddowBy Ben Wallace-Wells June 27, 2012 | 1:20pm EDT Full Size Image Virginia Sherwood/MSNBC "So just who is Sarah Palin?" This is Keith Olbermann talking, back in the summer of 2008, when…
LENGTH: 22 minutes (5560 words)
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