Common ground: Religion and science team up to fight climate change
Experts describe the various approaches faith-based communities are taking to address climate change and protect natural resources.
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Athena Aktipis: Cheating Cell
Cancer cells act in the body like bad roommates, Athena Aktipis writes in 'The Cheating Cell: How Evolution Helps Us Understand and Treat Cancer.' They stop cooperating, over-use resources, and invade every space in the house. Cancer is the literal embodiment of evolution, Aktipis says. We can’t win a war against a process of evolution, she says, but altering it may make cancer easier to tolerate.
Are you owed Copibec Settlement Funds?
As part of the settlement of a Canadian class action suit brought by Copibec, Quebec’s reprographic rights organization, against the Université Laval in Quebec, certain American authors are entitled to compensatory damages related to possible moral rights violations.
Climate change is driving marine disease outbreaks that endanger starfish, wild salmon and other species
Heat spikes are fueling disease outbreaks in keystone marine species like sea stars.
Beauty in Balance: Perceptions of beauty rely on a mix of the usual and the unexpected
Beauty — whether of faces, fashion or functional objects — is a study in contrasts, a happy medium between what the brain recognizes as average or usual, and what it sees as unique.
Desk Notes Newsletter, March 18, 2020
In the March, 2020 edition: Resources for covering COVID-19, work-from-home tips from our Freelance Committee, meet a new member, & more.
Missing the grasses for the trees: Reforestation threatens grassland ecosystems
Tree-planting efforts might be destroying historic landscapes around the world.
Mar. 19, 2020