By William J. Furney The past year has been tumultuous in every aspect of our lives — including between the
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Stella Anna Sonnenbaum: Society Is Shifting Away from Heteronormativity
By William J. Furney The past year has been tumultuous in every aspect of our lives — including between the sheets. Faced with long and dreary lockdown hours together when
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Earth Needs Our Attention for a Year or Decade, Not an Hour or Day
By William J. Furney We had an hour, in March and then, this week, a day. To save an imperiled planet that so far is our only home in the
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For Gun-Weary Americans, Time for Constitutional Change
By William J. Furney The supposedly most powerful nation on the planet cannot stop its people from being killed en masse by rifles, pistols, assault rifles, submachine guns and a
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Melding Man and Machine: Why Typing with Your Brain Could Be the Next Big Thing
By William J. Furney Using fingers and thumbs to bash out messages on our phones may soon seem archaic and even, one day, primitive, if spaceman Elon Musk gets his
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Preparing for the Next Pandemic but Not Prepared to Ditch Meat
By William J. Furney Almost everyone agrees it’s a case of when, not if, another catastrophic pandemic will erupt, killing millions more and bringing the world to a shuddering halt
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World Must Hold Myanmar Junta Accountable for Crimes Against Humanity
By William J. Furney Where is Aung San Suu Kyi, and does anyone care? The thousands taking to the streets of Myanmar, risking their lives and losing them — including
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The Attention Epidemic
By William J. Furney The people at my gym can’t go without mental stimulation and rewards for a second, and their sweaty workouts — there’s no aircon, only a window
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How to Lose a Country in 365 Days
By William J. Furney In a year in which more than 2.6 million people have lost their lives to a newly discovered virus, two of the most famous, privileged and
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Steve Lamoreaux: Colonize the Moon Before Romantic Notion of Mars
By William J. Furney It’s not just a big world out there, but an enormous, gargantuan universe that’s so impossibly large — and growing — that it’s barely possible for
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African Migrants in the Canaries: Not a Drop of Water to Drink
By William J. Furney PLAYA DEL INGLES — On a run early this morning on the subtropical island of Gran Canaria, just across a short stretch of sea from the
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