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To Promote Healthy Habits in Patients, Start with the Doctors

Why Harvard Medical School is training physicians to think more like coaches

by Jonathan Shaw

The case for electrification to help solve energy and climate concerns

Reducing our dependence on imported oil—while addressing the threat of climate change

Photographer David Arnold and others document coral reefs in decline

The world's most fragile marine ecosystems are in decline.

by Jonathan Shaw

Brief life of Renaissance scholar Mary Costelloe Berenson

Brief life of a Renaissance scholar: 1864-1945

by Diane E. Booton

Restaurant eating is rising: the pros and the cons

Dining out is surging—yet there are reservations.

by Craig Lambert

Metabolomics, the study of metabolites, provides telling clues to future health

The study of metabolites does an end run around genomics to provide telling clues to your future health.

by Jonathan Shaw

Excerpt: Joe Roman's "Listed: Dispatches from America's Endangered Species Act"

On learning from nature and the Endangered Species Act

by Joe Roman

Brief life of comics impresario Leverett Gleason

Brief life of a comics impresario: 1898-1971

by Brett Dakin

Profile of Andrew Sullivan, blogger supreme

Andrew Sullivan’s views are predictable in only one way: always stimulating.

by Jesse Kornbluth

Profile of actor and playwright Wallace Shawn

Ubiquitous on film and TV, Wallace Shawn writes plays that pack the house—with 20.

by Craig Lambert

Brief life of female Vietnamese revolutionary Bao Luong

Brief life of a Vietnamese revolutionary: 1909-1976

by Hue-Tam Ho Tai