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TOMORROW: Implants that can be adjusted to pick up a wider range of frequencies at longer distances
The seas make up 95% of the planet's biosphere--the realm where all living things exist--and we are stripping and poisoning it, depriving it of its ability to sustain life. Jacques-Yves Cousteau once predicted that unless we--not the editorial or royal we but the universal we...
As rivers are cleaned up, dams removed, pollutants flushed away, salmon are returning to waters everywhere from California to Germany, where no salmon had been caught since 1947.
Granted, the statistics--like the scales--don't lie. And it doesn't take an actuary to figure out that with Krispy Kreme going public next year and planning to open hundreds of new stores, America will continue gaining weight in the 21st century. Which means more and more people...
LONGEVITY. Despite the fact that life expectancy is increasing along with our national waistline, I'll accept that it is not the obese who are driving up the average. But should long life be our ultimate goal? I don't necessarily see the intrinsic value in long life. I would...