Search Results for: Science

Can Animals Be Gay?

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The science of same-sex pairings in the wild.

Published: Mar 31, 2010
Length: 35 minutes (8,838 words)

Roll Over, Charles Darwin!

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On the 150th anniversary of Darwin’s masterwork, the author visits Kentucky’s Creation Museum, which has been battling science and reason since 2007.

Author: A.A. Gill
Source: Vanity Fair
Published: Feb 1, 2010
Length: 9 minutes (2,334 words)

Hitting Bottom

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Dr. Drew is a TV doctor seemingly engineered for this moment. Unlike talk-show therapists whose go-to prescription is “get real,” he commands an unusual blend of medical credentials and pop-culture savvy — he is fluent in textese, neuroscience, nitrous hits and psychodynamics, which he combines with a cool, eloquent charisma honed over 25 years in the media.

Published: Dec 30, 2009
Length: 5 minutes (1,384 words)

The Genesis 2.0 Project

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Compared with the market-driven, killer-app insta-culture of the Digital Age, the new Large Hadron Collider exists in a near-magical realm, a $9 billion cathedral of science that is apparently, in any practical sense, useless.

Source: Vanity Fair
Published: Jan 1, 2010
Length: 16 minutes (4,065 words)