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06/09/2014 - 13:37

LABOR PAINS In the future, ideas will be the real scarce inputs -- scarcer than both labor and capital. Turn over your iPhone and you can... →

31/08/2014 - 15:15

HOW ASSIMILATION WORKS The successful assimilation of earlier immigrants is often misunderstood. It’s true that they managed to achieve... →

25/08/2014 - 15:52

At the same time, chaos has its advantages. On a behavioral level, the arms race between predator and prey has wired erratic strategies... →

19/08/2014 - 16:20

Overinvestment also implies bust, though. The question of which moment marks the peak has been raised repeatedly: at the time of corporate... →

14/08/2014 - 19:20

The first attempted examinations of the connection between genius and insanity were largely anecdotal. In his 1891 book, The Man of Genius... →

09/08/2014 - 12:36

By the 1700s, astronomers observing sunspots hit upon an idea: The sun was a regular old terrestrial planet like ours that just happened to... →

31/07/2014 - 22:39

In the jargon it's an "Anthropocene defaunation," or sixth mass extinction, and one caused by humans. Scientists can't be sure of the... →

25/07/2014 - 14:05

So what, exactly, do consumers have to fear? To find out, Popular Science chose 10 of the most common claims about GMOs and interviewed... →

20/07/2014 - 19:50

So why don't we? Where food is concerned, we're complicated. We aspire to extreme thinness as advocated by fashion and reinforced by the... →

15/07/2014 - 11:03

2) After the end of the colonial era, it was inevitable that to keep these artificial countries alive, and avoid their disintegration,... →

10/07/2014 - 16:26

Elizabeth Blackburn has always been fascinated by how life works. Born in 1948, she grew up by the sea in a remote town in Tasmania,... →

03/07/2014 - 13:30

Диаграмма 2. Потребление первичной энергии в 2011 году (тонн нефтяного эквивалента на единицу ВВП). Промышленный сектор Удельное... →

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