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Where religious belief and disbelief meet

When it comes to religion, believers and nonbelievers appear to think very differently. But at the level of the brain, is believing in God different from believing that the sun is a star or that 4 is an even number?

Consider the Oyster (and Ocean Farming)

THERE ARE CYNICS who see only catastrophic answers to Earth’s population explosion: War and pestilence come to mind.

Then there are those who look a little deeper. Not even two feet deep, to be precise, into the placid tidal pools dotting the world’s coastlines. Like homesteads nibbling at the wilderness, coastal flats represent humanity’s creeping advance into the great, undomesticated Blue.

Newspapers' focus on balance skewed coverage of global warming

Reporters and editors at four of the nation's top newspapers adhered to the journalistic norm of balance at the expense of accurately reporting scientific understanding of the human contributions to global warming, according to an analysis that appears in the current issue of the journal Global Environmental Change. The new study, ''Balance as Bias: Global Warming and the U.S. Prestige Press,'' examined coverage of human contributions to global warming in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the Wall Street Journal from 1988 to 2002 to assess how scientific findings were conveyed to readers.

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Los Angeles Times

Where religious belief and disbelief meet

Consider the Oyster (and Ocean Farming)

Newspapers' focus on balance skewed coverage of global warming

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