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Permafrost-eating bacteria: a new twist on thawing Arctic and global warming

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imageCarbon in some types of ancient permafrost is digested by greenhouse gas-producing microbes.US Bureau of Land Management, CC BY-SA

Global warming is accelerating the thawing of permafrost – soil that has been at or below the freezing point of water for approximately two or more years. This releases the potent greenhouse gas methane to the...

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From Sophocles to Sherlock: economics, literature and the detective story

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imageWhat does economics have to do with a revolver? Book revolver via www.shutterstock.com

If you read or watch detective stories, you probably don’t think about them as an expression of economic principles.

But at their heart, that’s exactly what they are. And it’s not just detective stories, but works of fictions of all genres are...

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The Umpqua, Oregon shootings: portrait of the killer as a young man

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imageHungry for information: the media, here covering the shooting in Oregon, falls into now-familiar patterns in covering mass shootings.Steve Dipaola/Reuters

All killers are Norman Bates – anti-social mama’s boys.

Or so the news media tell us in their instant profiles of the gunmen who shoot up schools, churches, military bases and other...

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What public health researchers want you to know about gun control

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imageObama calls for changes to gun laws after the shootings in Oregon, Oct. 1, 2015. Kevin Lamarque/REUTERS

Editor’s note: In the wake of the mass shooting at Umpqua Community College in Oregon, we asked two public health researchers on gun violence to help us understand this latest violent act. Sandro Galea is the Dean of Boston...

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The University of Texas faculty are watching Oregon uneasily

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imageA line is drawn in Roseburg, Oregon, Oct. 2, 2015. Lucy Nicholson/REUTERS

I fear our senses will become dulled to horrific news like Thursday’s, when a gunman opened fire on an Oregon community college, killing nine and wounding 10. I fear we will forget, again and again.

Oregon is one of the seven states that now have provisions allowing the...

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Jobs market is stuck in neutral – it's time candidates talk about how to fix it

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imageUS jobs market needs a boost.Reuters

Today’s jobs report is very disappointing. Essentially the labor market is stuck in neutral, yet unfortunately there’s little political will to do much to get it back into gear.

The US economy added only 142,000 jobs last month, compared with economists' estimates of about 200,000. That put the...

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Plain cigarette packaging: healthier citizens, sicker state finances?

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imageFrance's tobacconists aren't very happy with plain cigarette packaging.Reuters

Over the last few years, a new idea for improving public health has been slowly spreading across the world: a ban on selling cigarettes in packages with custom brand designs. Instead of selling branded tobacco, all cigarettes are sold in either plain packages or packages...

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The Martian: a space epic that explores ordinary human decency

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imageIn The Martian, the stakes are neither bigger, nor smaller, than a single human life.20th Century Fox

On the red planet, amid arid desert and rolling mountain ranges, six sleekly space suited astronauts grope their way back to their launch vehicle, fleeing a sudden and vicious wind storm.

Pelted and blinded by sand and metal, one of them is struck...

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