It’s hard to absorb and write about stories that break your heart. When I saw the headline about Rehtaeh Parsons, who was gang-raped when she was 15 and committed suicide […]
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If the current growth rate continues, the global demand for petroleum will double in the next 40-50 years. According to the IEA we will need to introduce more than 30% […]
According to recent figures, a full 61 percent of the country is experiencing drought conditions, almost double the amount in 2011. Some are warning of a coming “megadrought” in the western US.
It’s hard to walk down a grocery aisle these days and not notice the many food labels that shout out “Rich in Antioxidants!” or “Good source of Antioxidants!” or “Fights […]
Editor’s Note: I recently read and subsequently tweeted about Submergence, the new novel by J.M. Ledgard. Then I asked one of the smartest people I know – Brian O’Neill – […]
As the rainy season begins, even more of the mollusks are expected to emerge from hibernation and start munching…on plants, stucco, plaster, and even concrete.
Monday’s twin blasts occurred at a time when more people than ever use social media. Authorities hope the photos and videos that bombarded the Internet in the moments following the attack will prove useful in their search.
CrowdMed, launched Tuesday, is one of several Web-based platforms that anyone can use to help diagnose mystery conditions.
In disagreeing, be specific, targeted, focused and also positive.
For the foreseeable future, ‘terrorism’ will be the default term immediately applied to any act of public violence. While some warned against jumping to conclusions in regards to yesterday’s tragedy […]
What scares me most is how we start to think the way the technology wants us to think.
These 7 apps have what it take to turn your tablet into a powerful academic tool.
A new style of writing reflects the assumption that people take in information in little chunks and nuggets and don’t really have the ability to immerse themselves in the text and pay attention.
One of our significant strategic imperatives was to diversify the product base, so the company built up other franchises to create an enterprise that could be and would be profitable year in, year out.
Some of the things we need to do to really make school a more emotionally addictive place.
You don’t want to be so modest that you don’t’ do anything, and just sit there like a puddle, but when you do things, you constantly want to be checking for your own biases.
That thing which we call culture, which is sort of the zeitgeist, the feel of an atmosphere is really hard to count and measure, and very hard to put into numbers. And yet it tends to be the most important thing.
To empower the organization you need to take out layers, shift budget controls, do things that are very visible inside the organization and a real statement about how we’ll innovate in the future versus how we have innovated in the past.
Not by a long shot: In a sampling of 3.9 million Facebook users, 71 percent self-censored new posts or comments. Also, men were more likely to self-censor, especially if they had a lot of male friends.
Every teacher is obligated to devote teaching time to direct test prep.
Wireless companies are offering their customers’ location data to companies that plan to use it for purposes ranging from city planning to market research.
It’s very rare in a contemporary art exhibition to encounter something as powerful as a great piece of Aztec sculpture or a great painting by Picasso because I think we live in a world of image overload.
That legalization of or especially creating a constitutional right to same-sex marriage will lead to a constitutional right to polygamy is a favorite “scare tactic” of social conservatives. But Slate‘s Jillian Keenan argues, […]
You could argue that with social media, the truth is now what we all agree it is.
Now that the nonprofit service that administers the high school equivalency exam has partnered with for-profit Pearson Vue Testing to create a pricier computer-only test, 40 states are looking for alternatives.
There’s a tendency, particularly when looking at brain function, to be over-awed by the brain and, this is understandable.
Our human existence is wonderfully complicated and our culture is wonderfully complicated by pastimes and ideas and information that are entirely divorced from the evolutionary concerns of getting our genes into the next generation.
We clever humans have figured out how to artificially activate our pleasure circuits.
Can the study of art history stop looking like ancient history itself? Can it transcend the old approaches and embrace the digital world? As digitized as art history has become […]
We are currently in the midst of one the biggest software and hardware revolutions we’ve ever witnessed. With processing power, storage, and bandwidth increasing exponentially, smart phones and smart tablets […]