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No serious observer denies that human beings are making the planet warmer. The real climate debate is about how we should respond to the challenge, writes @TedNordhaus. t.co/4TCxx5CBmy via @WSJ
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Another sign of progress in health: Our bodies have gotten cooler, probably because we’re less infected and inflamed. t.co/Bsg3KXJCPg
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MLK was, among all else, a supple & non-dogmatic intellectual. "My Pilgrimage to Nonviolence" recounts his reading of Enlightenment thinkers, discomfort w Marx & Nietzsche, appreciation of both sides of human nature, discovery of Gandhi, much else. t.co/HfoJv8AYOT
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As with laws within a country, international laws, norms, & institutions work to everyone’s benefit in a world with linked interests, including non-aggression, trade, & the environment. My colleague @Joe_Nye explains. @Joe_nye t.co/4GFTaNJ7fL via @BostonGlobe
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NYT obit for my teacher and childhood neighbor: Ronald Melzack, Cartographer of Pain, Is Dead at 90 t.co/lPVvkRQvR8
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