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Four Ways Industrial Ag Is Destroying the Soil – and Your Health
If the numbers are any indicator, there's a crisis in worldwide soil health that is rapidly becoming a crisis in human health.
Obama Vows to Destroy Islamic State, but Expanded Strikes in Syria and Iraq Point to “Endless War”
President Obama has authorized US airstrikes for the first time in Syria and their expansion in Iraq against the militant group Islamic State.
Why End War?
A two-minute sample of why we should end all war, recorded for submission to TED talks.
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Warning to War Supporters
If you want to bomb a country every time an evil group murders people in a gruesome manner, you'll have to bomb a lot of countries including our own.
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Misperceptions About Middle-Class Society
Americans are more likely than Europeans to believe that they live in a middle-class society, even though income is much less equally distributed here than it is in Europe.
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MS Breakthrough: Switching Off Aggressive Cells Stops Body From Attacking Itself
There are a wide range of strategies for treating people who have autoimmune diseases. Unfortunately, none can cure the diseases.
Health and Hierarchy
Science shows that rigid hierarchies are bad for the health of everyone in them u2013 except those at the very top. But the good news is, cooperative values …
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Playing Toxic Whack-a-Mole
Flame retardants in everything from couch cushions to tents may be poisoning us all for no good reason.
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The Color of Infant Mortality
Infant mortality is about race, poverty and geography, and the ways that the lives of some women and children in the US are made to matter more - and …
New York Times Runs Ad Equating ISIS and Hamas
Recently, The New York Times ran a full-page ad that puts photos of ISIS and Hamas side-by-side.