Starbucks goes to a great effort, and pays twice as much for its coffee as its competitors do, and is very careful to help coffee producers in developing countries grow coffee without pesticides and in ways that preserve forest structure.

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Measles and TB evolved from diseases of our cattle, influenza from a disease of pigs,...

Measles and TB evolved from diseases of our cattle, influenza from a disease of pigs,...

Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tribe to...

Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tribe to...

I've always been interested in a lot of things, and a lot of things at...

I've always been interested in a lot of things, and a lot of things at...

We can't manipulate some stars while maintaining other stars as controls; we can't start and...

We can't manipulate some stars while maintaining other stars as controls; we can't start and...

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Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation.

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Although native Africans domesticated some plants in the Sahel and in Ethiopia and in tropical...

We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which...

We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which...

I personally am not conscious of my accent.

I personally am not conscious of my accent.

Technology has to be invented or adopted.

Technology has to be invented or adopted.

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All human societies go through fads in which they temporarily either adopt practices of little...

Federal elections happen every two years in this country. Presidential elections every four years. And...

Federal elections happen every two years in this country. Presidential elections every four years. And...

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Australia is the most isolated continent.

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Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to...

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Take air quality in the United States today: It's about 30 percent better than it...

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Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans...

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AIDS and malaria and TB are national security issues. A worldwide program to get a...

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Thousands of years ago, humans domesticated every possible large wild mammal species fulfilling all those...

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Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction - namely,...

Some people have much more pull than other people. But when I say that the...

Some people have much more pull than other people. But when I say that the...

Lest those islands still seem to you too remote in space and time to be...

Lest those islands still seem to you too remote in space and time to be...