In bowling alone, robert putnam made perhaps the most notable case for the value of social capital in american society. That landmarked study argued that civic life was experiencing a steady erosion. And yet his theory is still considered just that, a theory. But a new set of studies published in nature shed some intriguing light on the subject.
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the risks are, and whether they can be headed off. Britain’s summer heatwave was deadly—but figuring out
how deadly was no easy task. And discovering the
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