“The People’s Republic is becoming a technological superpower, but who’s checking the facts?” The New Humanist seeks out the Chinese science cops who fight fabrication and plagiarism.
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“He’s been sly, sad, unwatchably private, two writers and a drag queen, and now he’s directing. Tom Shone traces the career of Philip Seymour Hoffman.”
“We have entered the post-art era, Kundera declares in Encounter—’a world where art is dying because the need for art, the sensitivity and the love for it, is dying.’”
Just under two months ago I received the news that I, along with 10 of my co-workers, would be laid off. Unlike most I was OK with this as I […]
When I first met Tony Blair in 1993 at his house in Islington in North London, I was struck by two things. First, the man who had just recently become […]
“America is in the worst spasm of bigotry and paranoia since the McCarthy era. But the irony is that persecuting Muslims at home actually endangers American security abroad.”
“The pastor who plans to burn Korans is despicable. But the rush to condemn this maniac clouds legitimate free-speech debate.” Tunku Varadarajan on when rights should be abridged.
Over at MIT’s Knight Science Journalism Tracker, the wise Charlie Petit has a great round-up of coverage of yesterday’s Pew science survey. On what I described earlier today as a […]
It is not often that a celebrity memoir makes the leap from the front page of the New York Times Arts section to its Op-Ed page, but then what less […]
In Greek mythology, the gods sometimes punished man by fulfilling his wishes too completely. This is the first line of Henry Kissinger’s 1957 Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy. Always controversial, […]
At NPR today, writer Mia Mask argues that Eat, Pray, Love follows on the heels of Sex and the City as Hollywood’s latest return to Orientalism. Coined by the writer […]
It’s human nature to try to understand something new by comparing it to something we already know. We always interpret the present based on past experience. But when we make […]
“Mexican drug lords exist to feed the U.S. drug market. And they get their guns through the U.S. weapons market.” The CSM says the U.S. bears the brunt of moral responsibility.
“We think of writing as an author’s cognitive output, but it has a corporeal dimension—writing is an embodied practice.” The Smart Set on the loss of novelists’ female transcriptionists.
Jamaican Prime Minister, Bruce Golding, in his interview with Big Think, confirms what we know: crime, like global capital markets, is uniquely, irrevocably networked. The rare drug crime might be […]
A new book examines the lives of the Romantic poets in their well-intentioned but ultimately ambiguous morality. It is a case of life imitating art, writes Laura Miller for Slate.
Today’s customers expect more from leading companies and brands than they ever have before. As enlightened consumers empowered by the Internet, they have the power to propel brands to tremendous […]
Over the weekend, I appeared on a stellar panel at the National Association of Science Writer’s meetings in Baltimore that featured Ralph Cicerone, President of the National Academy of Sciences, […]
The New Yorker chronicles the artistic development of Bob Dylan parallel to his run-ins with The Beat writers in Greenwich Village, and particularly his lasting friendship with Allen Ginsberg.
Hoping for a workable alternative to using ‘he or she, him or her’? Dennis Baron says wordsmiths have long been coining gender-neutral pronouns, all to no avail.
Fiction writers are more desperate than ever, says the novelist. Scared that they’re not going to get published, they’re trying to shoehorn themselves into rigid—”sellable”—formats.
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Nostalgia is dangerous, says novelist Jonathan Lethem: “There is a hugely bogus script that things fall into in American cultural life—that just before we arrived it was all perfect; things […]
Big Think interviewed an array of luminaries in a variety of fields this week, including several world leaders and giants in the arts. Bolivian President Evo Morales, in New York […]
For readers in the Beltway, I will be presenting at this upcoming panel on blogging sponsored by the DC Science Writers Association. It’s free if you don’t plan to partake […]
Ten climate scientists who disagree about the linkages between global warming and more intense hurricanes have released a joint statement warning that regardless of the resolution of the scientific debate, […]
Writer and marketing guru Seth Godin is spurning traditionally published books. As Mathew Ingram notes, self-published PDFs and e-books are increasingly attracting such authors.
When Sting sang “Young teacher/the subject/of school-girl fantasy,” it may well have been that he was thinking about an English teacher in a certain place and time, having been one […]
Paul Di Filippo on, “How a long-dead Frenchman became one of the most important science fiction writers in current American culture.” Join the Jules Verne revival at Salon.com.
HYDERABAD, India – Dozens of Muslim protesters led by three lawmakers attacked an exiled Bangladeshi writer at the release of her book in southern India on Thursday, calling her “anti-Islam,” […]