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Slow

“The very idea of slow has a hold on us. In fact, we like it so much that we sometimes rush to get it ...”

Chapter one
Slow Living
Chapter two
Slow Matter
Coming March 12
Chapter three
The Old
Coming March 19
Chapter four
Frontiers
Coming March 26

Casual Sex May Be Improving America’s Marriages

By Helen Fisher

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Why Your Brain Hates Slowpokes

By Chelsea Wald

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How to Turn Your Dog Off

By Rene Ebersole

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How Music Hijacks Our Perception of Time

By Jonathan Berger

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Facts So Romantic

Science has a powerful voice in today’s culture.
So what is it saying?

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Big Data Helps Find the Achilles Heel of Each Individual Cancer

In January, the pharmaceutical company Roche paid more than a billion dollars to buy about half of a small company called Foundation Medicine. Foundation has not invented any new drugs…
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5 Languages That Could Change the Way You See the World

I went to my neighbor’s house for something to eat yesterday.Think about this sentence. It’s pretty simple—English speakers would know precisely what it means. But what does it actually…
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The Death of Hundreds Is Just a Statistic—But It Doesn’t Have to Be

Imagine that tomorrow I were to show you a newspaper article describing a deadly wildfire. Do you think you’d be more upset upon reading that 10,000 people died than if you read that…
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How Odd Behavior in Some Young Horses May Reveal a Cause of Autism

As a toxicologist at the University of California, Davis, Isaac Pessah focuses on how different molecules regulate human brain function and development. Yet when he found himself at the…
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Astronomy

Mars Once Had Enough Water to Cover A Fifth of the Planet

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Cell Biology

How to Protect Your Plants From Radioactive Soil

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Environment

Amazon Forests Really Do Take In Less Carbon During Drought

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