• 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?
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• 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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