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In addition to making “offensive comments” illegal, a recently-approved electronic crimes bill outlaws stalking, identity theft and the distribution of child pornography, among other activities.
Women are like tourists in a world that is not quite built to be aligned with how they are by nature or how they’ve been socialized by nurture.
The top 200 chief executives at America’s largest public companies received an average pay raise of 16 percent for fiscal year 2012. Their companies’ returns rose by an average of 19 percent.
“It’s so clean and bland – I’m home!” –Marge Simpson, on arriving in Canada
Ramez Naam looks at the power of innovation to overcome natural resource and environmental challenges.
One of the challenges that students have today, which is not a lot different than what I faced, is the problem of budgets being cut in education. I grew up […]
Forget about gift shop miniatures: A San Diego man is taking pictures of the world’s great sculptures and converting them into files that he is offering for free to anyone with a 3D printer.
The children will come and go as they please, as long as they are present during the core period between 10:30 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. The building will only be closed for Christmas and New Year’s.
I think experimentation is a really important part of the lifecycle of a company both strategically and from an innovative point of view.
The challenge for companies and for people is to get focused, ruthlessly focused. And part of doing that is the pruning and deselecting moldy ideas.
“Any couple who choose to consummate their sexual cravings, then that act becomes a total commitment with adherence to all consequences that may follow,” said the Court’s ruling.
You can get easily distracted by the next thing, the next thing, the next thing.
Ron Miller’s illustrations deal with the consequences of man’s actions as well as the kind of destruction that might be in store for our planet long after humans, and all life on Earth, is gone.
The image above shows the “burn scar” left from the Dolce fire that has devastated the area around Prescott, Arizona.
At the turn of the century when the internet first began to blow up, a wonderful technology emerged called Rich Site Summary, now more commonly known as Really Simple Syndication […]
The amount of student loans shouldered by the nation’s young adults is keeping them from buying their first home, which has traditionally been a bedrock of an upward trending US economy.
Recently General Motors announced that they’re building a new, $258 million enterprise data center in Moring, Michigan. With it, they are going from 23 outsourced data centers around the world […]
Our fascination with celebrity is a product of the modern era but its explanation may have roots deep within the biology of our brain. Culturally, it has benefited our species to imitate leaders.
A new study of the brain’s biology completed at Columbia University has overturned the accepted theory for how humans process higher-order thoughts, such as reflecting on the past and planning for the future.
The lone-wolf vision of creative genius is giving way to a more community-friendly concept of innovation where the different talents of many create scientific breakthroughs.
Mindfulness meditation, a process through which the practitioner becomes more aware of his or her own thoughts and emotions, is gaining in popularity across the United States.
The search for an authentic life, in which one is always on the path toward personal growth, is a destructive tendency of modern life, say philosophy professor Simon Critchley and psychoanalyst Jamieson Webster.
“Courage is not a man with a gun in his hand. It’s knowing you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. […]
The rise of Lyme disease, virtually unknown until 1977, is thought to be due in part to the vast urbanization of the Northeast coast as wide forests were divided into much smaller neighborhoods.
In order for a substance to be regulated like alcohol, it must fit four specific criteria: ubiquity, toxicity, addictiveness, and be bad for society has a whole. Sugar fits these categories easily.
Called chimeras, animals that share essentially human biological qualities, such as human organs from the liver to the brain, are under development in Japan as a way of harvesting organs for transplant.
Sugary foods and other processed carbohydrates, such as bagels, white rice, juice and soda, stimulate areas of the brain that control for hunger to a greater degree than whole.
A recent survey of nearly 4,000 American college students reveals that those who have casual sex are also more likely to suffer from states of anxiety and depression.