While an actual level of shady and dishonest practices is probably impossible to measure, the U.S. has slipped from 19 to 22 in the latest ranking of perceived public corruption.
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Today we are being told of the purported economic payoffs of, above all, the promise of so-called “green jobs.” Unfortunately, that does not measure up to economic reality.
Social media, most notably Facebook and Twitter, have featured prominently in recent years as tools of the opposition in insurrections against entrenched regimes.
With Hosni Mubarak out, there are key things the U.S. should do to help Egypt not go the way Iran, Russia and China went during their revolutions, allowing tyrannies to take over.
Two years before opening his Barnes Foundation in 1925, Dr. Albert C. Barnes vowed that in his new institution, “negro art will have a place among the great art manifestations […]
Is the rise in boob jobs and other elective surgeries a sign of renewed consumer confidence, or a harbinger of continued economic malaise?
The DealBook editor breaks business leaders into two major categories, embodied by Apple’s Steve Jobs on one end and GE’s Jeff Immelt on the other.
Well, not everyone can live at C Street… Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) is demanding an investigation into reports that at least 32 members of Congress are […]
Where did the week go? Some news! Webcams: Eruptions readers have been keeping an eye on a lot of volcanoes lately – and it sounds like it has paid off. […]
Last week TSA Administrator John Pistole bestowed very limited collective bargaining rights on the nation’s 40,000 Transportation Security Officers. Even if the TSOs vote to unionize, they will be barred […]
Last week, I introduced a course I am teaching this semester on “Science, Environment, and the Media,” and asked students as well as readers to describe in the comment sections […]
Sex-abuse scandals involving priests have shaken Ireland but is that enough to break the grip of the Catholic Church?
Over the last decade, top food and agriculture biotechnology firms and trade associations spent $572 million in campaign contributions and lobbying Congress.
Yoga is not as old as you think…nor very Hindu either. There is telling evidence to debunk this nationalistic myth.
Staphylococcus aureus is a hard bug to kill, but now researchers think they may have found a way to conquer it by blocking its ability to perform a critical task: recycling.
Why are young men in porn-rich Japan growing indifferent or even averse to sex with live partners? Today’s synthetic hyperstimulation triggers more potent dopamine trips.
Injections are less painful if you resist the natural impulse to look away, scientists have claimed. People had a higher pain threshold if they looked at the arm or hand being treated.
There’s a young field at the interface of science and mathematics called spatial statistics. It’s so new that its first international conference is taking place next month in the Netherlands.
It’s hard to exaggerate how bad Hosni Mubarak’s speech was for Egypt. It is virtually impossible to conceive of a more poorly conceived or executed one.
An entire new generation of WikiLeaks-inspired services, enabling anonymous, secure submissions of leaked documents, is springing up around the world.
Without the free competition of ideas, popularly favored paradigms dominate research funding, journal publications, and scientific meetings. Dominant theories become arrogant ideologies.
Will man really become immortal in the year 2045? The singularity movement is gaining momentum in the science world and in the media.
Successful female leaders tend to act like role models, inspiring and encouraging others. These qualities are make them better suited as leaders of the organizations we’ve developed in the modern […]
The largely unregulated capitalism of the 19th century meant terrible conditions for many ordinary Americans and was a source of social unrest that threatened to bring down our economic and political system.
And so to another inconvenient truth that should trouble anyone interested in the clash of ideas, real passion in journalism, polemic and a radicalism worthy of its name. Iconic, radical […]
If you know the rules of good taste, pervert them by embracing fashions that are considered passé—and then charge lots of money to buy them.
Like drugs dealers, websites should give users just a taste for free—and then charge them for the real product once they’re hooked.
One of the questions I almost never hear from black men is “what are you reading these days?” What I do hear is “you know, I was reading Power Moves […]
Is the high cost of marriage in Egypt, which has sexually disenfranchised many young men, helping to fuel the ongoing uprising?
We’ve been reading a lot lately about the rediscovered remnants of the Pink and White Terraces (also known as Te Tarata and Otukapurangi) near Mt. Tarawera in New Zealand, but […]