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How Climate Change Has Driven Evolution

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 18:40:00 -0800

Time - Dec. 27 - This painting by artist Carl Buell depcits a scene from the late Eocene of North America. A new study shows how climate change drove species diversity in the past. We are the products of our environment — and that goes for egrets and elephants as much as

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What Korean Lunches Tell Us About the Welfare State

Sun, 28 Aug 2011 04:46:00 -0700

Time - By posted by Micheal Shuman - Aug. 28 (News Analysis) - There is an unusual political battle going on in South Korea right now, over, believe it or not, school lunches. The Seoul city council voted to implement a large-scale program to feed every primary and middle school student in the capital – all 850,000

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A New Study Shows That Global Warming Is Leading to Extinctions

Tue, 12 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By Tara Thean - Jul. 12 (Special Report) - With all the climate conversation currently littering the Internet, and the myriad ways that extreme weather is linked to global warming, it's hard not to get confused about climate change sometimes – and given the sheer volume of muddled information out there, you might even be forgiven for being unconvinced by the arguments thus far. But University of Exeter scientists have brought us some simple proof that climate change seems to be as bad for our planet as we've been led to believe. Their study shows that the loss of animal and plant species that have already happened match previous predictions in terms of the relative risk to different species around the world. And based on that information, the scientists have made a frightening forecast: one in 10 species will be extinct by 2100 if climate change continues affecting the world the way it is now.

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The Optimism Bias

Sat, 02 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By Ali Sharot - Jul. 02 (Special Report) - We like to think of ourselves as rational creatures. We watch our backs, weigh the odds, pack an umbrella. But both neuroscience and social science suggest that we are more optimistic than realistic. On average, we expect things to turn out better than they wind up being. People hugely underestimate their chances of getting divorced, losing their job or being diagnosed with cancer; expect their children to be extraordinarily gifted; envision themselves achieving more than their peers; and overestimate their likely life span (sometimes by 20 years or more). The belief that the future will be much better than the past and present is known as the optimism bias. It abides in every race, region and socioeconomic bracket. Schoolchildren playing when-I-grow-up are rampant optimists, but so are grownups: a 2005 study found that adults over 60 are just as likely to see the glass half full as young adults.

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The Damage to the Fukushima Nuclear Plant Is Worse Than Previously Thought

Fri, 13 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By Krista Mahr - May. 13 (News Analysis) - In the two months since Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was pummeled by a quake and tsunami, no news has generally been good news. Unfortunately, today, there's some news.

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House Passes Ryan's Budget in Party-Line Vote

Sat, 16 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By Alex Altman - Apr. 16 (News Analysis) - House Republicans passed their 2012 budget resolution Friday afternoon, sending to the Senate a blueprint that would transform major entitlement programs like Medicare and Medicaid, lower taxes and cut some $6 trillion over the ensuing decade.

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Japan: Corpse Recovery Poses Problems

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By Eric Talmadge, Shino Yuasa - Mar. 31 (News Report) - In the shadow of Japan's struggle to stem radioactive leaks from its stricken nuclear complex, police in white moon suits pull bodies of tsunami victims from an evacuated zone in halting work interrupted by radiation alarms.

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Why the U.S. Went to War: Inside the White House Debate on Libya

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By Massimo Calabresi - Mar. 21 (Opinion) - President Barack Obama says he's intervening to prevent atrocities in Libya. But details of behind-the-scenes debates at the White House show he's going to war in part to rehabilitate an idea.

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Locked and Loaded: The Secret World of Extreme Militias

Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By Barton Gellman - Sep. 30 (Special Report) - Within a complex web of ideologies, most of today's armed radicals are linked by self-described Patriot beliefs, which emphasize resistance to tyranny by force of arms and reject the idea that elections can fix what ails the country. Among the most common convictions is that the Second Amendment — the right to keep and bear arms — is the Constitution's cornerstone, because only a well-armed populace can enforce its rights. Any form of gun regulation, therefore, is a sure sign of intent to crush other freedoms.

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What's Fueling the Battle Over Raw Milk?

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By Josh Ozersky - Sep. 27 (News) - What could be more innocuous than a glass of milk? A lot, it turns out. Milk may be a symbol of wholesomeness for most of us, a childhood staple associated with furtive Oreo feedings or the sweet residue of disintegrated breakfast cereal. But for some Americans, milk has become a test of their freedom. And they're not paranoid kooks either; the government really is out to get them, authorizing seizures of bottles and jugs of unpasteurized milk and, in one recent case, a full-on, agents-brandishing-guns raid.

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Have Cell Phones Become Personal Tracking Devices? - TIME

Wed, 15 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By Adam Cohen - Sep. 15 (Special Report) - Smart phones do many things these days: surf the Internet, send e-mail, take photos and video (and — oh, yes — send and receive calls). But one thing they can do that phone companies don't advertise is spy on you. As long as you don't leave home without your phone, that handy gadget keeps a record of everywhere you go — a record the government can then get from your telephone company.

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How Barack Obama Became Mr. Unpopular

Sat, 04 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By Michael Scherer - Sep. 04 (Special Report) - This shift in perception — from Obama as political savior to Obama as creature of Washington — can be seen elsewhere. When Obama arrived in office in January '09, his Gallup approval rating stood at 68%, a high for a newly elected leader not seen since John Kennedy in 1961. Today Obama's job approval has been hovering in the mid-40s, which means that at least 1 in 4 Americans has changed his or her mind. The plunge has been particularly dramatic among independents, whites and those under age 30. With midterm elections just nine weeks off, instead of the generational transformation some Democrats predicted after 2008, the President's party teeters on the brink of a broad setback in November, including the possible loss of both houses of Congress. By a 10-point margin, people say they will vote for Republicans over Democrats in Congress, the largest such gap ever recorded by Gallup.

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The Obama Speech

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By Joe Klein - Aug. 31 (Opinion) - "...this speech was a necessary ceremony of the presidency, if a thankless one. The commentators will say the President didn't transcend. His critics will say that he refused to acknowledge the "success" of the surge. But he also refused to indulge in relitigating the stupidity that launched the war."

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How the Government Can Use GPS to Track Your Every Move

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By Adam Cohen - Aug. 26 (News Analysis) - Government agents can sneak onto your property in the middle of the night, put a GPS device on the bottom of your car and keep track of everywhere you go. This doesn't violate your Fourth Amendment rights, because you do not have any reasonable expectation of privacy in your own driveway — and no reasonable expectation that the government isn't tracking your movements.

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How the Stimulus Is Changing America

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By Michael Grunwald - Aug. 26 (Special Report) - The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 — President Obama's $787 billion stimulus — has been marketed as a jobs bill, and that's how it's been judged. The White House says it has saved or created about 3 million jobs, helping avoid a depression and end a recession. Republicans mock it as a Big Government boondoggle that has failed to prevent rampant unemployment despite a massive expansion of the deficit. Liberals complain that it wasn't massive enough.

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The 'Dangerous' Border: Actually One of America's Safest Places

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By Tim Padgett - Jul. 30 (Special Report) - When U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton ruled on Wednesday that key provisions of Arizona's new anti-immigration law were unconstitutional, she could have also declared them unnecessary. That is, if the main impetus behind the controversial legislation was, as Arizona Governor Jan Brewer said when she signed it in April, "border-related violence and crime due to illegal immigration." The fact is, despite the murderous mayhem raging across the border in Mexico, the U.S. side, from San Diego to Brownsville, Texas, is one of the nation's safest corridors.

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The BP Spill: Has the Damage Been Exaggerated?

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By Michael Grunwald - Jul. 29 (Special Report) - The Deepwater explosion was an awful tragedy for the 11 workers who died on the rig, and it's no leak; it's the biggest oil spill in U.S. history. It's also inflicting serious economic and psychological damage on coastal communities that depend on tourism, fishing and drilling. But so far — while it's important to acknowledge that the long-term potential danger is simply unknowable for an underwater event that took place just three months ago — it does not seem to be inflicting severe environmental damage.

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Media Culture's Downward Spiral Seen in Shirley Sherrod Case

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By Mark Halperin - Jul. 26 (News Analysis) - the old media are often swayed by controversies pushed by the conservative new media. In many quarters of the old media, there is concern about not appearing liberally biased, so stories emanating from the right are given more weight and less scrutiny. Additionally, the conservative new media, particularly Fox News Channel and talk radio, are commercially successful, so the implicit logic followed by old-media decisionmakers is that if something is gaining currency in those precincts, it is a phenomenon that must be given attention. Most dangerously, conservative new media will often produce content that is so provocative and incendiary that the old media find it irresistible. So the news-and-information conveyor belt moves stories like the Sherrod case from Point A to Point Z without any of the standards or norms of traditional journalism, Read more: http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,2006410,00.html?xid=rss-politics-huffpo#ixzz0urCSZ5eH

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A Complex Link Between Marijuana and Schizophrenia

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By Maia Szalavitz - Jul. 23 (News Analysis) - Since the days of Reefer Madness, scientists have sought to understand the complex connection between marijuana and psychosis.

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The Science of Cougar Sex: Why Older Women Lust

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By John Cloud - Jul. 13 (Special Report) - A new journal article suggests that evolutionary forces also push women to be more sexual, although in unexpected ways. University of Texas psychologist David Buss wrote the article, which appears in the July issue of Personality and Individual Differences, with the help of three graduate students, Judith Easton (who is listed as lead author), Jaime Confer and Cari Goetz. Buss, Easton and their colleagues found that women in their 30s and early 40s are significantly more sexual than younger women.

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How We're Failing Our Female Veterans

Sun, 04 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By Laura Fitzpatrick - Jul. 04 (News Report) - June Moss, 39, maneuvered a Humvee around charred corpses and still smoking shrapnel in Iraq in 2003. The Army driver and mechanic once watched a Black Hawk helicopter mow down insurgents a few hundred yards away. But when she called her father to tell him how tough things were, he didn't get it. "He was kind of like, 'Oh, well, you just fix the trucks. You don't have to worry about nothing,' " she recalls. "I don't know where people get the idea that women aren't out there, they don't see anything, they're just support." At home, after she was discharged from the military but before she was diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), the single mother couldn't find a job that paid enough to support her and two children. In 2005 her house went into foreclosure, and the next year she and her kids became homeless — a predicament made more painful by the fact that of the nearly 500 community homeless shelters funded by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), only seven provide accommodations specifically for families. That year, Moss tried to kill herself.

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Obama Calls for Energy Reform—But Doesn’t Mention a Carbon Cap

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By Bryan Walsh - Jun. 15 (Opinion) - And if Obama is really serious about changing some of the insane parts of our energy policy—like the fact that we spend less than $5 billion on energy R&D a year, a number that Bill Gates wants to triple—he could be truly revolutionary. There's evidence that cap-and-trade may not even be the best way to shift from fossil fuels—and it's certainly not an easy political sell any longer. But even though the votes don't seem to be there, if there were ever a time for Obama to really push a carbon cap, this moment was it. And he didn't.

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Armed Farces

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 07:10:21 -0700

Time - By Tim McGirk - Jun. 08 (Special Report) - It is a nearly impossible mission. Nine out of 10 Afghan enlisted recruits can't read a rifle-instruction manual or drive a car, according to NATO trainers. The officers' corps is fractured by rivalries: Soviet-era veterans vs. the former mujahedin rebels who fought them in the 1980s, Tajiks vs. Uzbeks, Hazaras and Pashtuns. Commanders routinely steal their enlisted men's salaries. Soldiers shake down civilians at road checkpoints and sell off their own American-supplied boots, blankets and guns at the bazaar — sometimes to the Taliban. Afghans, not surprisingly, run when they see the army coming.

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Appeals Court Rules in Favor of Walmart Sex-Bias Lawsuit: Walmart Faces a Gender Discrimination Suit

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By Sean Gregory - Apr. 29 (News Report) - Unfortunately for Walmart, the company received a more serious setback this week. On Monday, a federal appeals court ruled that a gender-discrimination suit against the company, first filed in 2001, could move forward as a class action, a decision that could potentially cost Walmart upwards of $1 billion, inflicting a painful wound on its much-improved corporate image.

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The Secrets of Obama's Underappreciated Success

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By Mark Halperin - Apr. 26 (Opinion) - The critics on both the left and right will yammer on. But by Election Day, 2010, Obama will have soundly achieved many of his chief campaign promises while running a highly competent, scandal-free government.

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