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Measurement

Atlas Aggregated

No social encounter delights me more than meeting a doctor at a cocktail party. In clinical settings, doctors tend to be guarded and aloof. Catch one with a whiskey in…

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The New New Narcissism

By Kristin Dombek, from The Selfishness of Others, a monograph that was published this month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Dombek is the recipient of a 2013 Rona Jaffe award.

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Invisible and Insidious

Living at the edge of Fukushima’s nuclear disaster

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For Whom the Cell Tolls

Why your phone may (or may not) be killing you

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Conning the Climate

Inside the carbon-trading shell game

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The expanding spectrum

Space-messengers, missile-detectors, and people-watchers

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How Much Poison are You Breathing?

The carefully documented facts on one of the most sinister—and widely ignored—menaces to the nation’s health . . .

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A new conception of the universe

Einstein's theory of relativity, with illustrative examples

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