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With his appointment of Chris Cerf as Commissioner of Education, Chris Christie is rebuilding New Jersey public education using sweeping, data-driven methods that have been tested (and sometimes bitterly contested) in New York City and Washington, DC.   

We weigh choices about risks against the associated benefits, and the bigger the benefits, the less we worry about the risk.

This week ended up being a little busier than I expected – I had to make that quick transition from wedding/honeymoon to beginning to prepare for my field/labwork coming up […]

Amid a dearth of female role models in leadership positions in Japan comes one positive move, the government is debating mandatory quotas to get more women into public office.

As they adjust to the world’s ongoing global financial difficulties, some business chiefs are moving towards ‘conditional conservatism’ in accounting. Research shows it makes sense.

Engineers increasingly end up as company heads and could learn from the experience of self-confessed introvert and former Mozilla CEO John Lilly, who learned to be a “people person.”

Nelson Lichenstein says a patriarchal ethos was written into Wal-Mart’s DNA that today helps sustain high corporate loyalty even as wages and working conditions are eroded.

Want more authority? Acting more authoritatively is one step but you must also eliminate the limiting beliefs that undermine you. For instance, the need to be loved.

If traditional media companies fail to adapt their business models to the realities of today’s open source world, companies like Boxee will be happy to fill the void.

Now that summer’s here and the time is right to turn to reruns of various kinds, I’m trying to spend the ample time I have as a tenured professor watching […]

Jean Jacques Rousseau called cities “…the abyss of the species“. Well, they may not be that bad, but with their crowding and competition and noisy get-ahead in-your-face rat race environments, […]

Political pundits who are already naysaying the Obama Administration’s decision to release 30 million barrels of oil from our strategic reserves have no idea how Wall Street works. If the […]

Which country would have the upper hand in a full-scale cyber war between the United States and China?

There probably isn’t a flashpoint in science right now as touchy as climate (well, maybe evolution). When it comes to climate change, everyone has an opinion and everyone thinks their […]

I already wrote once or twice about the mind change in our society that we are used to getting information or answers to our questions right now, anywhere we are. […]

Gossip: you can’t avoid it. And maybe, you shouldn’t want to. Scientists have argued that gossip is an important tool for social cohesion and information transmission, allowing us to function […]

If you won the lottery, would the additional wealth increase your chances of a lasting relationship? If you are single, would you be more likely to marry? If you are […]

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say that by allowing nanoparticles to communicate with each other, the delivery of anti-cancer drugs can improve forty fold. 

Serial entrepreneur Chris Andrews, with his new start-up SoundLink, is ready to revolutionize the Internet, again—this time with voice cues embedded in links, offering a more dynamic Web experience. 

With the economy struggling, it can be hard enough to operate a profitable business—let alone one that tries to improve the world. But tough times may be increasing interest in social ventures.

From beating hearts to breathing lungs, livers to fallopian tubes, the list of organs replicated in miniature form using microchip technology is growing, revolutionizing how drugs are tested. 

Researchers have developed the first memory prosthetic device—a neural implant that, in rats, restored lost brain function and improved short-term memory retention.

Georges Braque once said that he and Pablo Picasso were “roped together like mountain climbers” during the formative years of Cubism—1910 through 1912. Picasso and Braque scaled the mountain of […]

Early this morning, a number of prisoners escaped from a Yemeni central prison in the eastern coastal city of al-Mukalla. The details, as with most stories – particularly breaking ones […]

The eruption of Nabro in Eritrea has been a bit of an enigma, mostly because the volcano is (a) so remote and (b) it’s previous activity is mostly unknown. In […]

So maybe it’s time to come down from space and say some obvious things about the campaign for the Republican nomination. The first is that Sarah Palin has been defeated […]

Kathy is a teacher. She has a basket. Kathy puts all of her favorite things in her basket and takes it everywhere so that they’re close at hand. Because she’s […]

Could ‘peace talks’ end the ‘climate war’? A call for a meeting of moderate minds as a means to ending the climate debate stalemate.

Scientists have found that ocean levels are rising faster than at any point in the past 2000 years and it’s due to global warming. Less land ice and warmer ocean waters will result.

There may be renewed interest in whether we can sense the Earth’s magnetic field after a finding that a light-sensitive protein in our eyes can act as a “compass” in a fly’s eye.