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The early 20th century was a boom time for the American drinks industry. Prohibition wrecked all of that, severely damaging American’s collective knowledge and experience of drinking.
John Pistole, head of the Transportation Security Administration, says the inconvenience of body scanners and pat downs is a small price to pay for safety.
Analytically, the task of deficit reduction is simple: cutting expenditures and raising rntaxes, says Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz in his plan to reduce long-term budget deficits.
The pipe dream of the paperless office has been around for a while, hoping to mitigate the massive paper waste generated by the corporate world – 1,410 unnecessary pages printed […]
Yesterday I tried to clear up some of the confusion surrounding the fight in Congress over extending the Bush tax cuts. But in the process of trying to explain how […]
While we still haven’t quite discovered the fabled Fountain of Youth, a major breakthrough was recently made toward the goal of eternal life. Scientists at Harvard Medical School have discovered […]
There is a very real danger that some analysts, diplomats, commentators and politicians are taking all that is revealed by Wikileaks at face value, without questioning the veracity of some […]
3D printing is easily the biggest design futurism meme of 2010. We’ve previously looked at other approaches to on-demand, DIY, factory-free design objects. Now, NYC-based designer Alissia Melka-Teichroew is applying […]
If the transmission rate of HIV is low, then how have so many young women on the continent become infected?
A bacterium found in the arsenic-filled waters of a Californian lake is poised to overturn scientists’ understanding of the biochemistry of living organisms, says Nature.
If you were to track the daily happenings that flatten people’s moods, you would likely find rejection at the core.
We ought to make opt-out easy but beware of injuring the model that brings us free content.
We are full of the accumulated baggage of our idiosyncratic histories. From hiccups to wisdom teeth, the evolution of homo sapiens has left behind some glaring imperfections.
We can start changing attitudes to pay inequality by looking each other in the eye and asking each other what we earn – without pride, without bitterness.
Putting U.S. secrets on the Internet…requires a reconceptualization of sabotage and espionage — and the laws to punish and prevent them.
The Federal Reserve has made public an enormous trove of data about the emergency measures it took during the worst of the credit crunch and the ensuing recession.
The best way to avoid a new Korean War is to deter future North Korean provocations. Reducing U.S. forces in the region doesn’t do that.
The perception is that the minds of the 22 FIFA members were already made up, either through vote trading or through friendships and contacts over many years.
In an effort to head off increasing scrutiny of Internet privacy, a group of online tracking rivals is building a service that lets consumers see what those companies know about them.
Yesterday my boss asked me a question out of the blue. “Didn’t you used to sell stocks?” “A long time ago,” I said. And with that, he began to tell […]
This sums up everything that needs to be said about the “populist” Tea Party. It’s not populist and its values of are antithetical to those of the Boston Tea Party. […]
Tax cuts are in the eye of the beholder. The House voted today 234 to 188 to extend the Bush tax cuts for people earning less than $250,000 a year. […]
There hasn’t been a lot of coverage in the news, but Ethiopia’s Erta’Ale has started issuing new lava flows over the last week. I got a note from an Eruptions […]
2010 marks the first year that the U.S. will have a national strategy and implementation plan for combatting HIV/AIDS domestically.
While online tools for personal finance management like Mint and Outright make it increasingly easier to keep track of our “digital money,” there’s something to be said for the dwindling […]
It’s human nature to try to understand something new by comparing it to something we already know. We always interpret the present based on past experience. But when we make […]
The special bond that often forms between people and both domesticated and wild animals maybe be, paradoxically, part of what makes us human, says Dave Munger.
The United States clearly is like other countries in some respects and unlike them in other respects. Exceptionalism thus isn’t of much use as an analytic construct.
Good metaphors are expansive; they compare something we don’t understand, to something we do. You see in a new light both the object of interest and the substrate you rest it on.