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Who would they destroy? Mac or PC? This year's crop of MacArthur Fellows dish about how their worst habits, how their friends see them and other random things.
Inside the Mind of a 2009 MacArthur Fellow: Rackstraw Downes -
Think running the free world is boring? Stressful? President Obama tries to mix it up with a night of stargazing and half-court basketball with his Cabinet.
Obama Plays Hoops with Duncan, Geithner, Donovan and More at White House Basketball Court -
Needle-exchange programs are efficient, cost-effective means for HIV/AIDS prevention. Will a controversial, 21-year-old ban stand in the way?
Lifting the ban on federal funding for needle exchange programs. -
Last week, the often controversial and always conservative William Saletan published a piece about the link between race and cancer outcomes. But do genetic differences between races just a slippery slope toward outright racism?
William Saletan's Defense of Genetic Testing by Race is Dangerous -
The 40th anniversary of the moon landing is inspiring, but today's NASA is better off pouring its scientific energy into fixing Planet Earth.
Why NASA's Moon Landing is the Wrong Model for Science in America -
Last fall, James Watson, the father of DNA, spoke the unspeakable, saying that blacks are intellectually inferior. In a conversation with The Root Editor-in-Chief Henry Louis Gates Jr., Watson clarified his views about race and genetics.
In a conversation with The Root Editor-in-Chief Henry Louis Gates Jr., Watson clarified his views about race and genetics. -
Why black colleges need to focus more on science and less on sports.
More Physicists, Fewer Fullbacks
