Among the many things about America that the American Civil War changed was its art. Painting and sculpture simply couldn’t be the same. In these sesquicentennial years, every aspect of […]
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A Pew Research Center/Washington Post poll released on Monday showed that for a majority of Americans, catching terrorists is more important than intrusions on personal privacy.
This is a guest post by Chris Dawson. Chris is a consultant, researcher, and freelance writer specializing in technology platforms that support education and healthcare. A longtime educator and activist, Chris […]
A new study reveals that British parents are increasingly relying on e-mails, text messages and social media to communicate with their partners and children, even when they are all under the same roof.
People who believe that blood is thicker than water seem determined to test it by shedding as much blood as possible.
The Internet Pioneer generation loves advertising. They want advertising to be content.
We’re going to see entrepreneurial growth in the educational business in many ways serving the needs that the traditional school systems have been failing at.
OK, so the NSA is spying on you. Is Orwell’s nightmare coming true?
In the case of a recent exhibit displaying sculpture of people whose characteristics were determined by analyzing DNA found on cigarette butts and chewing gum, maybe not, according to New York state law.
That’s the question curators at New York’s Whitney Museum had to answer when looking at a Web-based work acquired in 1995.
We now have three domains that are quite distinct: the sexual, the romantic, and the marriage market.
Women must display attributes of care, attributes of femininity, and yet be assertive and independent.
America is much like the Hotel California: “You can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave.”
What do we need to think about in light of the recent NSA leaks story? Precedent, collateral damage, discourse, and jumping on the grenade.
If we really want to help people we can’t just be driven by emotion.
How can you be an important conduit in the 20 trillion dollar capital allocation story that is the completion of the urbanization project over the course of the next century?
There is a tendency in our culture to single out one nutrient or ingredient as a quick fix.
I would love to replace a little bit of the revulsion with a little respect and interest.
Einstein is quoted as saying, “We physicists, we who understand science know that the distinction between past, present and future’s an illusion.”
Everything we experience and know about is caught in time, is caught in a moment, is not an illusion.
A number of indices suggest that America’s political institutions are falling in stature (shocker, right?) and that the nation’s ability to support entrepreneurs is suffering as a result.
In an effort to bolster its already impressive cybersecurity talent, the Israeli Defense Forces have called for a two-fold increase in the number of young people scouted for computer programming talent.
The US has been unwise to reject growing political ambitions from states like Brazil, which offered to broker nuclear arms talks between the US and Iran before President Obama declined the invitation.
Former CIA data operative Edward Snowden has claimed responsibility for leaking the NSA’s massive phone and Internet surveillance program to American journalist Glenn Greenwald.
As wealth rises in China, so does its number of emigrants. It is estimated that nearly two-thirds of the country’s nouveau riche use their funds to leave the country.
The self-help movement has come quite a way since Samuel Smiles (actual name) published Self-Help in 1859. Considering the opening sentence invokes God and the help He offers, the tone […]
In the midst of a culture that appraises positivity far above negativity, or even a balanced view of reality, psychologists say now is an equally important time to accept the trials of life for what they are.
Neuroscientists at Karolinska Institute have proven that a significant number of new neurons in the hippocampus — a brain region crucial for memory and learning — are generated in adult humans.
Listening to enjoyable music activates reward centers deep inside the brain, specifically the subcortical nuclei which is known to be important in reward, motivation and emotion.
Neuroscience is still one of biology’s newest fields and the extent to which human behavior can be explained exclusively in terms of blood flow to specific regions of the brain remains highly in doubt.