“Everything happens for a reason” is my very least favorite thing for someone to say.
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Two thousand Oklahoma City students were given free mobile phones that sent them encouraging texts each day. After nine months, they said they valued education more, but there was no corresponding increase in achievement.
Is NYT columnist Bill Keller right that it is “a blessing in disguise” for “a supporter of diversity” for the Supreme Court to restrict even further “the use of race […]
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal…” Really?
The sushi restaurant chain YO!Sushi has introduced a flying drone server at its flagship restaurant in London.
The tools that philosophers use are also tools for everyday life.
A fetish for failure has been sweeping the blogosphere, the Twitterverse, and the broader market for ideas for a couple of years now. It’s ridiculous, and here’s why.
You need to maintain a network that’s not only deep but also broad.
A recent decision regarding genetically modified food by an appeals court in the Phillipines was a dramatic victory for the emotional appeals of environmentalists, and an ominous defeat for […]
In my experience, about 80 percent of requests get a meaningful lead that a person couldn’t have gotten otherwise.
My heaven, nirvana, would be if the questions that are raised by Oprah Winfrey would be answered by the faculty of Harvard University.
Proust’s lesson is, “I lay in bed and by looking at things properly, and I felt properly alive.”
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 […]
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.