About midway through Derek Thompson’s and Ezra Klein’s viral manifesto, Abundance, glares a line that calls back repeatedly, like a spell, through example after example of American business and ...

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Born in Brooklyn, New York, Arthur M. Sackler was educated in the arts, sciences, and humanities at New York University. These interests remained the focus of his life, as he became widely known as a ...

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Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Contributors -- PART I: Populations, Variability, and Scaling -- Ecological Scaling in Space and Time: A New Tool in Plain Sight? -- How Will Organisms Respond ...

One of the great unsolved problems in modern planetary science is written on the surface of Mars. Mars has canyons that were carved by rivers, so it was once warm enough for liquid water. How—and ...