London police believe that BlackBerry’s popular, encrypted and free Messenger service was a key tool used to fan the recent Tottenham riots and looting. Unlike Tweets, most of these messages are untraceable.
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Researchers are probing the impact of social networks on kids. Early findings suggest FB use is associated with narcissistic behavior but can increase ‘viral’ empathy.
Friday, for the first time, Standard & Poor’s lowered its evaluation of the U.S. government’s credit rating, downgrading it from AAA to AA+. According to S&P’s rating system, that means […]
Your success in life depends on your ability to manage and cultivate a complex network of relationships that is the twenty-first century workplace.
Despite the high-wire histrionics in Washington over the debt ceiling and America’s recent credit rating downgrade, the economic crisis is fundamentally about jobs and prosperity.
As 300,000 people gathered over the weekend to protest rising wealth inequality in Israel, organizers said they are planning a million-strong march in 50 cities next month.
Which would you rather have: an apple or a Kit-Kat bar? It’s not an easy question. The answer depends on many factors, including how hungry you are, how much you […]
After five years of reporting across the African continent, journalist Scott Baldauf signs off by dispelling some of the dangerous myths he says are perpetuated by the Western press.
Nobel Laureate Gary Becker and Appeals Court Judge Richard Posner weigh in on the international threat of cyber attacks. They say new international laws are necessary.
Middle Eastern powers like Saudi Arabia are voicing their opposition to the continuing state-sponsored violence in Syria. Government tanks have rolled into the eastern town of Deir al-Zour.
The private credit agency Standard & Poor’s has downgraded America’s credit rating despite a $2 trillion calculating error. Why do these unelected bodies have the power to move mountains?
Public universities — especially elite research universities — are struggling. State legislatures typically set their in-state tuition rates and the portion of tuition that goes back to the university. In […]
I just pictured Dr. No standing before his fleet of snap-together drone planes cackling about how James Bond will never stop his unmanned aerial assault on Washington D. C.
This winter, John Berryman will have been dead for forty years. That figure strikes me as strange; in many ways Berryman’s poetic voice still sounds like that of a fearless […]
Different areas on a woman’s body which are sensitive to sexual stimulation correspond in surprising ways to different parts of the brain. The vagina and the clitoris are separate.
If the American economy goes into a double-dip recession, the causes will be vastly different from the crash in 2008. Maudlin irrationality is currently causing investors to panic.
Americans who had subliminal exposure to the national flag before being asked their political views expressed more of a tendency to vote Republican than those who hadn’t.
French philosopher Raphaël Enthoven meditates on the nature of reverie. Rather than firing neurons, daydreaming is ‘a sweet drug that plays with fire’ and ‘the world before concepts’.
Recent research shows that when people experience heightened physical and emotional states, they are more likely to share information over the Internet. Sometimes too much.
Amidst all of the market babble and financial gobbledegook that poured from both ‘analysts’ and ‘practitioners’ following last week’s global market meltdown, came a shaft of light. It took the […]
Bought by the MoMA in 1948, the same year it was painted, Andrew Wyeth’s Christina’s World entered the American art pantheon seemingly once it was dry. For more than half […]
With a diminishing space program, is science and technology forced to take a back seat?
I wanted to make a quick post on the some new volcano news as I’ll likely be a little sporadic with my posts next week. I have my last trip […]
Research has shown that a happy workplace is a more productive workplace. Shawn Achor details how this discovery should impact the way we think about leadership and management.
This blog is for everyone who sat through a first-year economic class wondering why their professor couldn’t come up with better examples than guns and butter and for teachers of […]
Psychologists are trying to level the culinary playing field. They want to improve the experience of eating healthy foods by determining how growers can breed them to taste better.
This week, a group of Japanese researchers from Kyoto University said they had figured out a way to turn embryonic stem cells into the more specific type of stem cell that makes sperm.
Margaret Gatz, a psychologist at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, explains what 25 years of research have taught her about reducing the risk of dementia.
As gadgets that measure health metrics have come onto the market, often linked to the Internet or a smartphone, a new movement in self-monitoring has been born.