A newly declassified State Department document sheds light on why Colin Powell became the first member of any U.S. administration to apply the label ‘genocide’ to an ongoing conflict.
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“Consciousness of course is one of the largest questions of brain structure and function. And we approach it now perhaps differently than we have in the past with our new tools. But I’m not convinced that we understand it any better,” says Joy Hirsch.
For almost 2000 years, Western Art has groped about in the darkness, laboring under the Ptolemaic misconception that Earth (and humankind) is at the center of all things. Until now.
People who frequently use tanning beds experience changes in brain activity during their tanning sessions that mimic the patterns of drug addiction, new research shows.
The European banking system is in worse condition than America’s banks were in 2008 or are now. Dexia is single bank needing a $238.9 billion infusion.
BY JASON SILVA “Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.” –Alphonse de Lamartine, French romantic poet. PART I: DREAMING WITH […]
The crowd surges around you, lurching forward in one overpowering swell. There’s panting and shoving, sharp elbows and raised voices, clawing and tearing, frenzied looks and frazzled nerves. Light blaring […]
The explosive growth of the micro-blogging service’s global popularity is emblematic of a trend affecting the entire internet: it’s becoming less American, and less Anglophone.
Graphene, the strongest material on Earth, could help boost broadband internet speed. U.K. researchers have found a way to increase its sensitivity in optical communication systems.
Astronomers have discovered a huge mass of water — some 140 trillion times the amount of water in all the Earth’s oceans combined. This water is 12 billion light years from Earth, evidence that water existed in abundance when the universe was young.
“Two, four, six, eight, we don’t want to integrate!” The black and white picture from the fifties of a teenaged white girl yelling racial epithets at a young black coed […]
According to Princeton Neuroscientist Sam Wang, co-author with Sandra Aamodt of Welcome to Your Child’s Brain, the benefits of bilingualism go far beyond the ability to order convincingly at Maxim’s in Paris, or to read Dostoevsky in the original.
Hackers are usually shadowy figures. So why are Anonymous and LulzSec dancing in the lime light, painting themselves as charismatic outlaws? Are they valiant or just P.R. savvy?
To Cornel West, Tavis Smiley, and all other African American pundits who want to own the conversation about the black community—President Barack Obama is not Captain Save-A-Negro. He is the […]
Hurricane Irene is going down in the ‘top 10’ record books as more costly than anticipated only a week ago. It is hurricane season. Not exactly a surprise that a […]
Guest post by Samantha Eliza Benten The Law of Non-Contradiction, as stated by Aristotle: “One cannot say of something that it is and that it is not in the same […]
Uncivilisation is no ordinary summer festival. People go not to escape reality but to face it. Attendees propose a new, deep ecological narrative which confronts systemic collapse.
In my anticipation to get out of town everything seems to take a little longer. A woman snags the last open pump at the gas station. An empty bucket of […]
–Guest post by Jan Lauren Boyles, American University doctoral student. With looming austerity measures that would triple the cost of UK tuition hanging in the balance, Jon Offredo joined the throng of […]
Yes, it is a Pocket Light, and you could actually keep it not only in your pocket but in your wallet as well, next to.. other useful items handy for […]
As the assault of comic book superhero-featuring movies over the past few years attests, the men and women in tights serve today as the closest thing American culture has to […]
The bulb wars burn brightly on. The members of the U.S. House who represent people for whom anti-government ideology burns more brightly than common sense have come back from […]
The most recent research indicates that smoking marijuana causes no long term cognitive impairment and can actually improve performance on some mental tests.
When Amy Chua released her memoirs of mothering her children, she created a national debate over parenting. She also meant to shine a light on America’s undeserved self-confidence.
As leadership changes reshape the Middle East, science stands to benefit. New projects are moving forward thanks to interim leadership that wants to bring science back to the region.
Brief post, but we just felt that M5.9 earthquake that occurred in Virginia (see top left) here in Ohio. My third floor office was swaying pretty good, but my wife […]
Now that the EMMY NOMINATIONS are out, I can give my awards for the best CONVERSATIONAL TV shows. My standard, of course, finds its peaks of excellence in conversational films […]
The state of Georgia just killed Troy Davis. Which is to say, a number of individual human beings acting under the imagined authority of the state of Georgia killed Troy […]
King Farm in Rockville, Md., could be an example of ‘new urbanism’ and ‘smart growth’ but instead locals are opposing one of the key elements—a central shuttle train.
A federal court has made it easier for companies like Amazon and Google to create music databases in the cloud without violating record labels’ copyright provisions.