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Susan Sontag's review of Simone Weil’s Selected Essays, which appeared in the first issue of The New York Review of Books in February 1963. Delete the scoop?
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James Gleick: A book from the theoretical physicist Lee Smolin aims to convince us that time is real. He is frankly recanting the accepted doctrine — an apostate. Delete the scoop?
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Over the years, McDonald's has gotten a lot of flack for marketing to kids. At a shareholders meeting Thursday morning, Hannah Robertson, age 9, took the fast-food giant's CEO to task. Delete the scoop?
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Duplicated images have sparked worries that the journal Cell may have been hasty in its peer review process. Delete the scoop?
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As best scientists can tell, lobsters age so gracefully they show no measurable signs of aging: no loss of appetite, no change in metabolism, no loss of reproductive urge or ability, no decline in strength or health. Lobsters, when they die, seem to die from external causes. Delete the scoop?
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Just do good, and we'll find a meeting point, says Francis in marked departure from Benedict's line on non-Catholics. Delete the scoop?
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Gary Gutting: We should judge teaching not by the amount of knowledge it passes on, but by the enduring excitement it generates. Delete the scoop?
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A moment of levity in Oklahoma Tuesday when Wolf Blitzer, concluding an interview with a woman who survived the devastating tornado, asked her if she had thanked the Lord for a decision she made that saved her life. She replied that she was an atheist. Delete the scoop?
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The faces of the planet, as seen from space. Delete the scoop?
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A tornado devastated parts of Oklahoma City on Monday, twisting schools, hospitals, and neighborhoods into rubble and killing dozens of people. Tornado Alley is a dangerous place to live. Considering all the tornadoes, hurricanes, fires, and floods that afflict the United States, what is the safest place to live? Delete the scoop?
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Animals are smarter than many people realize, and they can learn to do all sorts of stuff. That's why so many creatures have been domesticated — but it's also why people have tried, over and over, to send animals to war. Delete the scoop?
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When President Obama last week tweeted that '97% of scientists agree: climate change is real, man-made, and dangerous' he drew the attention of his 31 million followers to the most recent study pointing to the consensus in climate science. Delete the scoop?
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Penguins can move underwater with the speed of a swallow or swift, but cannot fly even as far as a chicken. How did a bird that in some cases shuffles 40 miles to its breeding grounds on unsuitable flippers end up losing its ability to fly there quickly? Delete the scoop?
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Jonathan Freedland: Just as Breivik's views on Islam did not deserve a hearing by the right, so the left should not use Woolwich to make its case on foreign policy. Delete the scoop?
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'The trick to creativity, if there is a single useful thing to say about it, is to identify your own peculiar talent and then to settle down to work with it for a good long time'. Delete the scoop?
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How unthinking racial essentialism finds its way into scientific research. Delete the scoop?
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Matthew Goodwin: In the wake of the spike in far-right activity, the risk of 'cumulative extremism' is one of the issues that should occupy minds. Delete the scoop?
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Playing the drums for a rock band requires the stamina of a Premiership footballer, research suggests. Delete the scoop?
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Radioactivity is dramatic. You can’t smell it, taste it, or see it. You may be powerless to avoid it. Delete the scoop?
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The pharmaceutical quest to give women a better sex life. Delete the scoop?
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While the American economy continues to recover from the disastrous financial bust of 2008 and 2009, Europe remains mired in a seemingly endless slump. Delete the scoop?
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Brains are smart enough to rewire themselves, a new international study of rats has found. The study turns on its head the common misconception brain damage is irreversible, showing the precise neural pathways that can compensate after damage to memory structures in the brain. The work has implications for Alzheimer’s disease, stroke and other neurological disorders. Delete the scoop?
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The philosopher's critique of evolution wasn't shocking. So why have his colleagues raked him over the coals? Delete the scoop?
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A university professor who was forced to work at Subway when he couldn't find a job as an academic has solved a prime number riddle that has puzzled the best mathematical brains for centuries. Delete the scoop?
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Can the scientific literature be trusted? In 'Why Most Published Research Findings Are False', Professor John P. A. Ioannidis, Professor of Medicine and Director of the Stanford Prevention Research Center at Stanford University School of Medicine, basically says no, it cannot. 
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May 21, 2:23 PM
"There are many factors to consider when looking for publication bias. Take trial size. People who do meta-analysis of scientific literature have wanted, for some time, to have some reasonable way of compensating for the trial size of studies, because if you give small studies (which often have large variances in results) the same consideration as larger, more statistically significant studies, a handful of small studies with large effects sizes can unduly sway a meta-analysis. Aggravating this is the fact that studies showing a negative result are often rejected by journals or simply withheld from publication by their authors. When data goes unpublished, the literature that surfaces can give a distorted view of reality." Delete the scoop?
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