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Here are some more reasons why liberal arts matter

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imageWhat constitutes liberal arts?University of Central Arkansas, CC BY-NC-ND

Lately, in the heated call for greater STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) education at every level, the traditional liberal arts have been needlessly, indeed recklessly, portrayed as the villain. And STEM fields have been (falsely) portrayed as the very opposite of...

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Labs make new, dangerous synthetic cannabinoid drugs faster than we can ban them

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imagePackets of synthetic cannabinoids illegally sold in New York City.Sebastien Malo/Reuters

XLR-11, PB-22, AB-FUBINACA, MAB-CHMINACA, 5F-AMB. These are the cryptic and sometimes unpronounceable names of the most dangerous drugs you’ve never heard of. They are responsible for kidney injury, psychosis, seizures, coma and death.

For instance,...

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How campaign finance disenfranchises America's silent majority of socialists

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imageSocialists: please raise your hand.Reuters

It took the excitement generated by the political campaign of a self-described socialist, Bernie Sanders, to put into stark relief the extent to which the United States political system fails to reflect and respond to the aspirations of most Americans.

That’s because decades of income stagnation have...

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Sam Smith's ambitious attempt to reshape the Bond song lands with a whimper

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imageBritish singer Sam Smith is known for his soaring falsetto.Toby Melville/Reuters

Like most James Bond fans, we couldn’t wait to hear the theme song for Spectre, the 24th installment in the series. And having just spent two years writing a book about Bond songs, we were hoping it’d get people excited about what these songs can do.

But...

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Delayed or killed, Keystone pipeline will live on as political touchstone

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imageRoad to nowhere?shannonpatrick17/flickr, CC BY-SA

The TransCanada Corporation requested on November 2 that the US State Department suspend consideration of its permit to build the Keystone XL pipeline. The pipeline, which would transport crude oil extracted from the Albertan tar sands to US refineries in the Midwest and Gulf Coast, has been...

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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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