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Climate change: The feel-good catastrophe
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Climate change: The feel-good catastrophe

Last week my newly adopted home of Washington, D.C. had two back-to-back days of summer in the middle of winter. The first day the temperatu...
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LNG comes to Boston, a harbinger of the future?
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LNG comes to Boston, a harbinger of the future?

The most curious natural gas story of the year so far comes out of Boston and seems to have echoes of a deepening Russia-related scandal in ...
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The stock market swoon and our hatred of (some kinds of) volatility
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The stock market swoon and our hatred of (some kinds of) volatility

The steepest one-day point drop in the history of the Dow Jones Industrial Average last week shook stock investors into an awareness that a...
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Ruin is forever (revisited): Why your death isn't as bad as that of all humankind
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Ruin is forever (revisited): Why your death isn't as bad as that of all humankind

It should be obvious that the death of an individual human being isn't as bad as the death of all humankind. But that's only true i...
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