More important than the effect power has on its beholder is the person’s intentions, outlook and values. That power corrupts tells us more about the person who held it than about an indelible nature of power.
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The history lesson in Zimmerman’s acquittal in the murder of Trayvon Martin
Researchers at Harvard Business School have found that small mobile devices which close your posture off to the world also close your attention, weakening you ability to engage the world around you.
A new study published in the journal Environmental Research Letters found that air pollution, caused by fine particles capable of penetrating deep into the lungs, is responsible for 2.1 million deaths annually.
Reincarnation is bunk.
Even using unqualified life expectancy figures, the US is falling behind other nations, but we should not be blinded by our attempt to increase longevity without a concern for quality of life.
All that it takes to cope with the death of a loved one is the philosophical habit of turning easily understood ideas into the more difficult practice of how you perceive the world day by day.
A study of 159 men and women enrolled in cognitive behavioral therapy has found that those patients who believed in God were more likely to receive the benefits of the therapy.
I think you have a very different perspective on the future when you consider the exponential growth of information technology.
My prediction is, in a few decades, we will come to accept entities that are not biological as conscious.
We will have abundance in terms of knowledge and equality and we won’t have the bottom billion anymore, but what I call the rising billion.
And as someone who has a really terrible driving record I can’t wait for autonomous cars to come out.
Religious Americans are better neighbors and better citizens in a way.
In metallurgy, an alloy is a mixture of two different metals that has different properties than either of those metals taken separately.
Ideas spread around not just through human word-of-mouth.
The easiest way to get Americans, in particular, onboard programming is by frightening the bejesus out of them.
Scientists at MIT are hoping to map the 86 billion connected neurons in your brain, and have developed a browser game for you to help them accomplish this.
Later this year, transportation officials plan to set aside one “singles” car on its trains for a fixed amount of time each week…and yes, they’re doing it to help busy people find mates.
Let the numbers do the talking. 2.5 million children die of malnutrition every year. Meanwhile, we produce 27% more food per person today than we did 50 years ago when […]
A small village in Spain reports that incidences of uncollected dog waste have dropped by 70 percent ever since offenders began receiving deliveries of their dogs’ leftovers.
Elisabeth Badinter’s important and arousing polemic, The Conflict: How Overzealous Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women, is now out in paperback in the U.S. Prospective mothers (as well as those […]
Verizon says it doesn’t want to replace copper-wire lines damaged during last year’s Superstorm Sandy, and AT&T hopes to turn off its entire landline network by 2020.
What the average person in the Westernized world considers to be a big problem is rarely aligned with reality.
Liberty-minded Americans wonder when and if their countrymen will say, “enough is enough.”
The Russian intelligence service has put in an order for typewriters and ribbons in hopes of avoiding Edward Snowden-type digital leaks. Writer Marc Herman notes that for the rest of us, this approach won’t make much difference.
When the Vatican recently cleared both Pope John XXIII and Pope John Paul II for sainthood—a hyper-holy two-fer—critics all along the political spectrum grumbled over the honoring of one man […]
It’s not just for the disabled: Recent design school graduate Gabriele Meldaikyte spent a year studying situations in which able-bodied people may find themselves with only one hand to spare.
Expedition 36 Crew Member, astronaut Karen Nyberg, demonstrates how she washes her hair in space onboard the International Space Station.
In a video produced with the ACLU, director Oliver Stone explores the legacy of unchecked government surveillance programs, from Nixon to the current NSA spying program.