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You’d be hard-pressed to find a more infamous gearhead than former Tonight Show host Jay Leno. With an upcoming prime-time talk show that will presumably pay him in the tens […]

The securities industry worldwide is constructed upon the quicksand of self-delusion and socially-acceptable confabulations. These serve to hold together players and agents whose interests are both disparate and diametrically opposed. In the long run, the securities markets are zero-sum games and the only possible outcome is win-lose.

In keeping with the notion that alcohol allows ordinary people to do extraordinary things, there is evidence to suggest alcohol can also help creative people find their spark…if they’re lucky […]

Web 2.0 has hundreds of sites to help artists collaborate. Sites like Indaba and WeBooks host communities where artists can connect and work on creating music or writing the next […]

10 Billion Beats is a non-commercial Global Intention Event that will use drumming to send a wave of positive intention around the world. Starting in Central Kansas, it will follow the sun through the time zones at 7:00 PM on Sept. 18, 2009. (Sept. 19 as it crosses the dateline)

This week television series Battlestar Galactica travelled to where few shows have gone before—a United Nations summit. Sound surreal?  You can watch the full 2-hour summit here and see just […]

With a name inspired by IBM and a cold and, dare we say, machine-like demeanor, 2001: A Space Odyssey’s HAL has become one of filmdom’s most enduring characters. But in […]

Obama's early life was decidedly chaotic and replete with traumatic and mentally bruising dislocations. Mixed-race marriages were even less common then. His parents went through a divorce when he was an infant (two years old). Pathological narcissism is a reaction to prolonged abuse and trauma in early childhood or early adolescence. The source of the abuse or trauma is immaterial: the perpetrators could be dysfunctional or absent parents, teachers, other adults, or peers.

9/11, says Tom Otterness, was like science fiction.

Publishing will get easier, says Rhodes Fishburne, and the state of fiction is “in good hands.”

Dr. Des Etages works at the cutting-edge of science, and science fiction gives her a glimpse of what might be on the other side.

No. He’s a fictional character, says Ford.

A place of fiction at a moment when American ruled the world.

Benjamin Percy, Jesse Ball to start.

Franzen discusses fiction, non-fiction and the need to draw the distinction.

With non-fiction writing, there’s always something to write.

Writers who don’t outgrow short fiction are the exception rather than the norm, Remnick says.

Carter believes there is a reason so many lawyers turn to fiction.

Scientific psychology from science fiction.