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Waq al-waq is proud to link to Jarret Brachman’s blog on all things Jihadi. Jarret was kind enough to let me sit beside him at a conference last year back […]

Yemen and fears of secession is the topic of the “Big Question” over at World Policy Journal’s blog. I helped a bit with the project – not in putting it […]

It should come as little surprise to readers of this blog, despite the fact that I attempted to fly under the radar, that I have been in Yemen for the […]

Instead of talking about how Reuters came late to the party let’s embrace the fact that they came at all. (Anyone with the reference?)

The New York Times has just posted a story on Yemen and the difficulties of closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay.Those who read this blog know how I feel about […]

This is an extraordinarily powerful piece of writing from an aid worker, Saddam al-Abdeeni, in Sa’dah.

Al-Sahwa and other Yemeni newspapers are reporting clashes between Yemeni security forces and al-Qaeda suspects in Hudaydah. (One warning note: over the next several days we will inevitably see a […]

I ran into this brief article that mentions that Monday night, flights between Australia and Indonesia were disrupted by an ash plume from an unknown volcano (well, unknown to the […]

After spending some tumultuous time together at the infamous “Yellow House” in Arles, Vincent van Gogh, no stranger to psychiatric help, thought that fellow artist and former roommate Paul Gauguin […]

The most common form of domestic terrorism in the U.S. is violent attacks on abortion clinics. Between 1973 and 2003, over 300 abortion providers were the target of acts of […]

Now that AGU is behind us and that I’ve waded through a lot of grading (over the weekend: 4 sets of labs and one each of papers and homework), I […]

Part of being a postmodern conservative is being open to the truth of the distinctively personal LOGOS of Christianity, to the possibility that the Christian understanding of being a person is […]

ScienceNOW’s Top 10 list of its favorite and most popular stories of 2010 is an eclectic mix. It includes its most popular story of all time: “Does Our Universe Live Inside a Wormhole?”

Germany’s controversial approach to fighting the euro crisis has split the European Union. The only thing agreed on is that the EU needs Germany as a motor if it is to survive.

Absent Mao’s exploits, the Chinese people would have started to enjoy their present good fortune three decades earlier. But would it have had a strong political basis for its prosperity?

The financial situations of many state and local government finances are also in bad shape, and in many respects they are far more difficult to solve than are the federal fiscal problems.

“Sudden Genius?” emphasizes that the major breakthroughs in the arts and sciences look sudden only in retrospect. Years of preparation paved the way to the eureka moment.

Was it contradictory of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s lawyers to condemn the leaking of secret government documents pertaining to the rape charges against him?

Repealing “don’t ask, don’t tell” was an important milestone. Achieving marriage equality should be one of the next steps, says Equality Matters president Richard Socarides.

Perceptual psychology, pre-eminently vision science, should be grabbing headlines. This science is more advanced than many biological sciences, including much neuroscience.

Unquestionably the greatest Christian intelligence of his age, Newman’s thought has retained a relevance matched by that of few other Victorians.

Startups lacking well thought out and viable data, business and revenue models are the root cause of the symptom of constantly oscillating (social network) user experiences.

Whole Foods CEO John Mackey speaks with Harvard Business Review editor Justin Foxx about the evolution of his company and his concept of “conscious” capitalism.

This holiday season, Hybrid Reality is preparing for the next digital decade by cleaning out the attic and donating books to charity—an interesting opportunity to reflect on the future of […]

Google any word, and the search engine will suggest a longer phrase, based on the popularity of current searches starting with the same word.  This so-called autocomplete function (1) is,  […]

Did you miss the Megalobster, the youth condom, turbine-free wind power, perfect parallel parking, D.I.Y. macroeconomics, the long-life-span Smartphone or the emotional spell-check?

Drop-out rates are frighteningly high. Even those who finish, moreover, often emerge from college with staggering debts, no technical qualifications and few basic skills.

The analysis of hundreds of billions of words in Google Books brings quantitative corpus research into a new phase. Is Culturomics a new field or just a new tool, the author asks.

There can be no greater disgrace than the fact that the entire dissemination of the biggest corruption story of the year was managed by Indian citizens through the Internet.

A U.K. charity for the homeless tells people not to give money to beggars at Christmas. Thames Reach says seasonal generosity is spent on buying crack cocaine and heroin.