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If a solar plant uses natural gas, is it still green?

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imageReal hot: the Ivanpah solar power plant and others like it use mirrors to produce heat to make steam and drive an electricity turbine.BrightSource Energy

The giant Ivanpah solar power plant in the California Mojave Desert recently detailed how much natural gas it burned to generate power when the sun wasn’t sufficient – the equivalent...

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Lessons from Newark: why school reforms will not work without addressing poverty

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imageWho's in charge of America's schools?Rutgers Nursing, CC BY-NC

In 2010, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show with Cory Booker, Democratic mayor of Newark, New Jersey, and Chris Christie, Republican governor of New Jersey. Zuckerberg announced, to cheers and applause, a US$100 million challenge grant to “turn...

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Wedding bells or single again: psychology predicts where your relationship is headed

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imageI'm not feeling a strong commitment to wed.Couple image via www.shutterstock.com.

Is he or she the one? You know… the one to introduce to my parents, the one to move in with, the one to start a family with, the one to marry? At some point in every dating relationship, you ask yourself some version of these questions.

Of course you’re...

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In the verses of Jordan's most popular poet, the hopes and fears of the Arab world

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imageThe Bedouin poet Muhammad Fanatil al-Hajaya.Author provided

Muhammad Fanatil al-Hajaya’s poetry is full of arguments one would hear on the streets of Amman, Riyadh and Cairo, in coffee shops, barber shops and taxis.

Laden with animals, conspiracy theories and apocalyptic rhetoric, his verses reflect how many Arabs – educated and...

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Some find redemption on death row, but few find mercy

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imageGerman Theologian Jürgen Moltmann at the graduation of condemned Georgia inmate Kelly Gissendaner. She was executed in September 2015. Emory University, Author provided

Strapped to the execution gurney in Huntsville, Texas, Michael Hall told those assembled to watch him die that he was not the same man who had shot a 19-year-old woman to death...

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In our Wi-Fi world, the internet still depends on undersea cables

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imageCables crisscross the oceans carrying your internet info.Telegeography Submarine Cable Map

Recently a New York Times article on Russian submarine activity near undersea communications cables dredged up Cold War politics and generated widespread recognition of the submerged systems we all depend upon.

Not many people realize that undersea cables...

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As US shutters aging nuclear plants, cutting emissions will become more costly

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imageLosing steam? Older power plants are expensive to operate or upgrade.Montgomery County Planning Commission, CC BY-NC-SA

The United States is the world’s largest producer of nuclear power, but the country’s fleet of nearly 100 reactors is showing its age.

On November 2, the owner of a nuclear power station in New York said it will shut...

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What Grantland's demise says about ESPN's past and future ambitions

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imageESPN's corporate leadership decided to shutter Grantland four years after the boutique site launched.Milani Beaudrault/flickr, CC BY

For those of us who regularly read Grantland, ESPN’s announcement that it shuttered the boutique sports and pop culture website didn’t come as a surprise.

The site had steadily been moving away from its...

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