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Weekly Science & Politics News Roundup

• Reading a teleprompter with gusto doesn’t mean you know jack about science (or anything else, for that matter).

• Counterpoint: Biden on the environment.

• What’s really going on in the North Pole?

• And while we’re on the topic, just how much of a sea level rise can we expect in the near future?

• The neuroscience of Zen Buddhist meditation, a.k.a. “How to get through an entire McCain speech without committing seppuku.”

• Finally, this has been all over the Internet—and now, including here:

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