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Why do our instincts sometimes backfire so dramatically? Research on how the mind processes information suggests that part of the problem is a lack of data. Even when we're calm, our brains require 8 to 10 sec. to handle each novel piece of complex information. The more stress, the...
Human well-being rests on a foundation of three pillars: economic conditions and processes (employment, income, wealth creation, trade…); sociopolitical conditions and processes (family, community, personal and national security, access to justice…); and environmental conditions and processes (air and water quality, nutrient cycles, climate?...
The most dangerous and intractable of all of the impacts of human activities on the environment is the disruption of the global climate by anthropogenic greenhouse gases, above all carbon dioxide from the combustion of fossil fuels. This is the most dangerous of environmental impacts because climate is the ?...
The United States is the world’s largest emitter of carbon dioxide. With five percent of the world’s population, we account for 22 percent of emissions. Electricity generation, associated mainly with combustion of coal, accounts for 40 percent of US emissions. Transportation, fueled primarily by...
Meanwhile, actual Harvard astrophysicists wallow in boring things like “spectroscopy,” “scattering theory,” and “collision processes,” according to the course description for Astronomy 251—the highest-numbered astronomy course offered this...