Chris Parker
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3 years ago | Concerts
There's more than just tacos and tequila this weekend.
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5 years ago | Health
Our health is our most precious resource, yet our health-care system’s more adept at mining wallets than making us healthy. We pay one-and-a-half to two times what other countries pay for health care without appreciably better outcomes. Amer...
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5 years ago | News
Arizona State University will celebrate the centennial of Albert Einstein's Theory of General Relativity on Friday. Meanwhile across the country, scientists are analyzing data attempting to prove the existence of gravitational waves, the last, mos...
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6 years ago | Longform
Since its 1998 peak, the music industry has been tanking. Global revenue from recorded music has halved from nearly $30 billion before leveling off to about $15 billion in the past few years. In the United States, recorded-music revenue suffered a...
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6 years ago | Longform
Many of us stared at the star-besotted sky as children and wondered how long it would take to count all those pinpricks of light. The answer is 10 years, once the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope begins its count in 2022. Construction began in Octo...
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6 years ago | Longform
It hasn't been a very happy holiday season for Sony Pictures, which was hacked recently and had sensitive internal files compromised. Five movies -- four of them unreleased -- were leaked along with 11 terabytes of personal data, including executi...