Through the looking glass
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Itâs easy to ignore the climate change meeting that is now underway in Buenos Aires. The vast majority of Americans are not even aware of the meeting.
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Recent research is providing new insight into experiences more often left to paranormal explanations.
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Reader Sunaina Yadav shares her experiences.
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Reader Abhinay Tibdewal sends us a photograph.
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Printing with Lightroom on Leopard...getting Photoshopped for Christmas...cell phones with 5x optical zoom...the optical triangle illusion
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Sometimes, when you're living through an event, you can be too close to what's happening to realize the magnitude of it.
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For the past 30 years scientists have scoured the most inhospitable environments or life. Just about everywhere they look, they find it thriving in microscopic form.
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A spectator with an especially intimate view of human evolution is beginning to tell its story and has so far divulged two quite unexpected findings.
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Another year, another opportunity to reflect and look forward.
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Where some see stasis, those of us of a certain age tend to see slow-swinging pendulums. Where some perceive exciting ideas as brand new, others perceive in them shades of the past.
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Thu 25th Nov, 11:25 AM. Orienteers love a puzzle and a fascinating new theory has highlighted a centuries old enigma on the doorstep of next yearâs JK.
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Now hereÂs something that just happened to catch our eye.
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The world of science has been busy all through 2004. The probing eye looked in all directions. It looked at the skies, at the ground beneath our feet, at the wings of a butterfly and at the molecules of water.
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Sometimes it helps just to open an atlas and stare for a few moments. I did so this morning, checking out the Southwestern Asia map (#98) of the National Geographic Atlas of the World (a handsome volume, by the way).
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Probing the depths of spending psychology.
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Researchers in England and Switzerland use video cameras and virtual-reality goggles to make subjects observe "themself" from elsewhere in the room. They learn: "The brain can trick itself."
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The real point of Michael Lewis' "The Blind Side."