India’s rural poor are still waiting after over six decades of independence for their share of the pie. The way things look, this won’t happen anytime soon, and they will continue to scratch a meagre living from the soil unless some dramatic big idea thinking is done – and implemented.
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In today’s Science, the team behind the Phoenix Lander mission published four studies giving an assessment of their data since the lander died on the Martin surface last November. The […]
Why is it that people don’t get to choose their own healthcare? Why are employers involved? Why are governments involved? Why can’t people buy straight from companies?
While China has been investing in its urban infrastructure at a frenetic pace, India’s city infrastructure remains well behind its northern neighbor. But a new sea bridge in Mumbai could […]
At Monday’s Personal Democracy Forum in Manhattan, I asked David Corn, chief of the Washington Bureau for Mother Jones and a blogger for CQ Politics, for his opinion on a […]
With the travel industry adjusting to today’s modestly priced, environmentally conscious mandate, it’s time to consider new concepts for hotels. Thinking outside the box, Morris Architects took home a prize […]
Zeke Vanderhoek will start one of the most progressive secondary education projects in American history in two months. His mandate: create a model of educational excellence for promising low-income students […]
From a live webcast this morning at the Personal Democracy forum, Mayor Bloomberg announced five new initiatives the New York City government is using to make government more accessible. 1) […]
Malicious computer attacks act a lot like Michael Jackson fans. And in the digital age, both can have quite the ripple effect. Since the King of Pop’s passing on Thursday […]
Considering how much attention the media pays to celebrities when they’re alive, it seems inevitable that the death of Michael Jackson will set a new precedent in wrangling over a […]
More information keeps trickling in on Tuesday’s Washington D.C. Metro accident. With the official death toll now at nine with 80 injured, it all serves as a reminder that no […]
If there’s one thing pretty much everyone can agree on when it comes to legacy infrastructure, it is that, by and large, it doesn’t really work anymore. American interstates have […]
How to improve a struggling student’s academic performance has bedeviled educators and parents alike. Is poor performance the fault of the curriculum, the teachers, the student, conditions at home or […]
You’ve probably felt the increase in your heart rate listening to a fiery punk song or the relaxation induced by a slow ballad. But Italian researchers just completed a study […]
Peter W. Singer explains how the robotics revolution will allow generals the ability to micromanage even low-level operations.
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is on its way. After a flawless launch at about 5:30 Eastern Time yesterday, NASA’s nearly $600 million satellite is en route to the moon. The […]
The economic spiral has seen the birth of a disconcerting social experiment. Tent cities, first on the West Coast and now in the East, are testing a new model for […]
Are you a C-SPAN addict, an incorrigible policy wonk, a wannabe beltway insider and a religious Twitterer? Then The Atlantic has a list for you. From the Deputy Prime Minister […]
Iranian expats living in Spain have recently illuminated the backdrop of the YouTube and Twitter main stage by which the Iranian elections are currently understood. Speaking with several of them […]
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Comedy man Bill Scheft came by the studio yesterday to talk about writing, stand-up, Jewish humor and the role of comedy in today’s pop culture. Describing comedy writing as making […]
With the mother of all opposition protests set to happen tomorrow and major news media ordered to stay in their offices, Tehran followers are looking to other venues for their […]
While most of the high-minded concern over the death of newspapers has been over the quality of future reporting and the role of news in a democratic society, it has […]
Bloggers the world over are uniting to support free speech in Iran with all the brilliance and subtlety only the Internet could muster. In a movement to obscure reporting from […]
Why do we need healthcare insurance? Why to get insured when it has been proven time and again that the coverage (or sufficient coverage) is not there when we really […]
The cleaning industry isn’t always, well, all that clean. But a new trend in product transparency could be revealing its dirty side for the better. In February, a coalition of […]
A giant magma pool sits underneath Yellowstone National Park, threatening to erupt on a monumental scale, and now it seems the U.S. could harbor a second such supervolcano in a […]