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Carl Zimmer has very bad news: A new study says the seas are acidifying ten times faster today than 55 million years ago when a mass extinction of marine species occurred. And, the study concludes, current changes in ocean chemistry due to the burning of fossil fuels may portend a new wave of die-offs.

Astonishing story over the weekend about how Goldman Sachs may have helped Greek politicians take on reckless levels of debt and deceive their Eurozone partners — and how, more broadly, Wall Street bankers may have colluded on deals that now threaten to destabilize the entire EU economy. Simon Johnson is rightly appalled, and says what…

A poultry-positive reader in Colorado Springs passes along this recent UK essay about what one learns about science and the nature of life from watching chickens. Excerpt: Watching chickens is a very old human pastime, and the forerunner of psychology, sociology and management theory. Sometimes understanding yourself can be made easier by projection on to…

My family came into Orthodoxy in a parish without pews. St. Seraphim’s Cathedral in Dallas observes the traditional Orthodox custom of parishioners standing for the entire two-hour liturgy, though there are chairs lining the sides of the worship space for those who cannot or who don’t wish to stand for the service. There is no…
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