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Biographical sketch of Ayn Rand

Brief life of an iconoclastic individualist

There’s (Still) No Gay Gene

Genes seem to play a role in determining sexual orientation, but it’s small, uncertain, and complicated.

Harvard researcher David Foster on the slow death of the hemlock tree

A tiny insect, the woolly adelgid, is killing off these giant evergreens.

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