Nicholas Kristof, who just had a close call with a tumor that turned out to be benign, on how to protect yourself from cancer: Stop smoking and avoid secondhand smoke. Slather on sunscreen and avoid tanning salons. Avoid charred meats. Check yourself over for lumps, changes or irregularities, whether in breasts or testicles or skin,…

Now this is interesting: scientists report data coming from the Cassini space probe indicating that there might be some form of life on Titan, a moon of Saturn. Maggie Koerth-Baker is cautiously optimistic. Excerpt: This is the kind of research that easily sets hearts aflutter and space nerds to making high-pitched happy squealing sounds, so…

Richard Fisher, a former commercial banker who is now head of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, has delivered a powerful speech denouncing the financial reform bill soon to be sent to the president’s desk as toothless. He also attacks the administration’s soft touch on big banks. According to Fisher, as long as there are…

I am in New York at the moment, and am going to walk across the street to a bookstore in a minute to buy Boston University religion scholar Stephen Prothero’s new book, “God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions that Run the World, and Why Their Differences Matter.” Here’s an excerpt from an interview…

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