If monogamy is such an important virtue, why do so many people cheat?
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The Future of News
How is digital ubiquity affecting the practice of journalism today and what does the future hold for major news organizations?
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Hunting for Alien Worlds
How many earth-like or at least habitable planets might be out there for us to discover?
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Rowing the Ocean
How did a successful management consultant reinvent herself into a multiple world record-holding ocean rower and the first woman to row across three oceans?
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S. A. Andree and the Heroic Age of Arctic Exploration
What moves someone to do something that’s never been tried before?
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What Language Is
From the archives: What makes a language genuine and how is the accelerating rate of linguistic change affecting the ongoing debate over how we communicate?
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The Current Crisis For Girls
From the archives: Young people certainly face many challenges these days, but what are the special issues faced by girls and young women as they come of age in the 21st Century?
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The Mystery of a Mother's Suicide
From the archives: How does someone cope with the loss of a parent and how does a parent’s suicide reverberate through a child’s life?
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The Risks and the Rewards of Yoga
Yoga has quickly become a big part of the go-fast, ego-fueled U.S. fitness business, but what might American yogis be missing in their quick study of a practice that’s actually thousands of years old?
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The Life of a Modern Monarch
How is a Queen different from everyone else and what should a monarch’s role be in the 21st Century?
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Dave Barry & Lunatics
How could a referee’s call during a ten-and-under girl’s soccer game transform two nobodies from suburban New Jersey into internationally wanted terrorists?
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The Internet & Freedom
Could legislation to stop online piracy and fight other internet-centered crimes like terrorism, child abuse, and fraud actually endanger the freedoms we take for granted?
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