Yesterday, in Part 1, I wrote about the problems of trying to define homelessness and how using a point-in-time count can be misleading when trying to formulate policy. The point-in-time count hardly ...

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This week Caryn Devins joins 13.7 regular Stuart Kauffman to consider the role of reductionism in our legal system. Devins is a third-year law student at Duke University School of Law. An ...

English translation: A society's environmental impact is proportional to its population, its wealth, and its technological capacity to mitigate the impacts of its population and its wealth. So how do ...

It’s the last few seconds of a basketball game, and the team is down by one point. The star shooter is one more three-pointer away from a personal record, and he has the ball. He puts out his best ...

Anyone following rock and roll music over the last three decades may have faced the challenging and sometimes entertaining task of keeping track of Prince Rogers Nelson. This musician led fans through ...