The rebranding of Peru’s president-elect, left-leaning populist Ollanta Humala, shows the wide spectrum of leftism in today’s Latin America and how the most radical fold is waning.
All Articles
The uprisings sweeping the Arab world appeared to have won their third victory over authoritarian rule by overthrowing President Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen after 33 years in power.
While most U.S. companies have focused international expansions on Asia and Latin America, China leapfrogged America in Africa. Now American companies are investing heavily to catch up.
The oft-quoted aphorism by Winston Churchill was in reference to the RAF’s heroic stand against fascism. And yet, this phrase is equally attributable to those few who fight today’s wars, such as Navy SEAL Eric Greitens.
The past two weeks have seen a whirlwind of innovation in the music industry – everything from Amazon.com’s $0.99 blowout offer for Lady Gaga’s new album to Apple’s decision to […]
Are you still wondering what all those check-ins via FourSquare, Gowalla or all the others in the space are all about? Just to receive a discount on a lemonade it […]
Studies show that exposure to lead decreases one’s ability to control impulsive behavior; some think the removal of lead from the American lifestyle has contributed to a falling crime rate.
Computer scientists at Brown University have created software to examine neural circuitry in the human brain with the hopes of better understanding pathologies such as autism.
Blind people are being taught to “see” the world just as bats and dolphins do. By training their ear, they can use sound to map different objects and respond effectively to their surroundings.
The process of embedding ideas within ideas, which humans seem to do so effortlessly, may be the one true dividing line between animals and humans that may hold up to close scrutiny.
When we are in a state of unforgiveness, we hold on to negative emotions that adversely affect the healing process, says professor of philosophy and stress management Rita Schiano.
Late last night – after hours of rumors – Ali Abdullah Salih left Yemen for Saudi Arabia and more medical attention. My guess is that his wounds are much more […]
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) claims his recent budget proposal will “save Medicare.” Medicare, he says, will run out of money in the next ten years and is “headed for a […]
George Church, Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School argues that the age-old divide between science and religion is solvable, but would benefit from less polarizing views.
I don’t think I have ever told you about the time that a man I was seeing felt the need to confess to me about many years of regular prostitute […]
Sometime very soon, the Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban ki moon, is set to announce his intention to run for a second five year term. In this he […]
GUEST POST BY JASON SILVA “Intertwingularity” is a term coined by Ted Nelson to express the complexity of interrelations in human knowledge. He wrote: “EVERYTHING IS DEEPLY INTERTWINGLED. In an […]
So my previous post on Walmart being change that’s, on balance, bad for us as social beings was one of my most popular and, apparently, least controversial. That’s because many so-called […]
UPDATE 8:00 PM (Eastern): It looks like Bariloche is being heaviest hit by the ash from the eruption – looks like a lot of ash on the ground in the resort town. You can see […]
I don’t know how many teenage girls I am following on Twitter, mostly because Twitter doesn’t have bouncers who card people before they can get in. Now there is one […]
British public health officials are drawing up plans to vaccinate all babies against tuberculosis amid concern over soaring rates of infection, particularly in London.
A new study comparing yoga practitioners and habitual exercisers found that the former had a lower prevalence of joint pain and headaches, better coping skills, and more…
Officials cautiously say the peak of the E. coli crisis may have passed but as scientists scramble to identify its source, many Germans have been put off their salad.
Why the psychopath raised in an abusive home becomes a serial killer and the one raised in a loving family becomes a CEO. An interview with the author of The Psychopath Test.
Cultivate your passions, they can be a huge engine of joy in your life. Do you have so many passions that you could drop one without losing an important source of happiness?
One of my favorite outdated slang phrases is “drop a dime,” which alludes to the days when a phone call still cost 10 cents and means to tell the truth […]
V.S. Naipaul is without question or controversy one of the finest living writers. Yet the controversy surrounding his recent interview with the Royal Geographic Society, in which he effectively takes […]
Fertility clinics can now identify and prevent the implantation of embryos with known genetic defects. For the first time we have the technical ability to determine whether or not certain babies will be born and what characteristics they’ll be born with.
Molecular Biologist Lee Silver acknowledges that there are special bioethical considerations that come into play for those working on biotech—but insists that much of the opposition to the field is […]
It has been a bad 10 years for the economy. As I’ve written before, the last decade was, economically, a lost decade. As this graph from Ezra Klein shows, there […]