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In The Fires of Vesuvius, Mary Beard unearths the seedier realities of the Roman social and political experience.

Today's conversation about food was started by dot-connecting writers like Berry in the 1970s.

The new Obama protocols on scientific research will influence not just stem cells but climate change, genetics, sex education and food safety.

The underlying vision isn't capitalist or socialist but something humane, local and accountable.

Drop the scary Bush lingo and start creating resilient communities than can effectively recover from disaster in this age of financial and climate chaos.

As the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court reviews defrocked priest Paul Shanley's conviction on child rape charges, "repressed memory" will be held up to scientific scrutiny.

Does the profit motive distort and degrade the unpredictable path of scientific discovery?

With the birth of Nadya Suleman's octuplets, we confront the virtues of motherhood, the ethics of fertility clinics and the myths we still concoct about childless women's worth.

A conversation with astrophysicist Adam Frank about science, religion and manifestations of the sacred in the physical world.

After eight years of being sidelined by the Bush administration, many in notoriously apolitical professions are ready to stand up and be counted on the social and ethical implications of their work.