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As the Big Three—Google, Bing, and Yahoo—make subtle changes to their search algorithms, a new crop of search engine upstarts are rethinking what it means to search altogether, with the hopes of transforming your relationship to information.
A questionable (but honest and penetrating) part of HIGHER EDUCATION? by Hacker and Dreifus is its assertive case against TENURE for professors. I have little doubt that tenure is toast. […]
This post is mostly to show some of the great images that the Daily Mail posted about field work performed inside a crater at Thrihnukagigur* in Iceland – literally, the team […]
Porn stars aren’t paid nearly as well as mainstream celebrities. As it turns out, this discrepancy has little to do with the way the porn industry operates and everything do with monopolies created by copyright protection.
Since the birth of mass market advertising, one of the longest standing strategies has been to call a product “all natural.” Today, this key word has been joined by others […]
In case we needed more evidence, digital publishing is not just here to stay but growing at an impressive rate, as notes Richard Mollet, chief executive of the Publishers Association.
Try to sue their pants off? Ignore it? Hope your fans defend you? Here one business-owner shares how they turned a competitor’s online attack into an advantage.
Cars are increasingly becoming computers with wheels. Navigating, monitoring performance, maintenance, and even selling cars, is becoming digitalized.
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange warns that Facebook is the “most appalling spy machine ever invented.” But businesses complain it is too hard to search its data.
Osama Bin Laden’s death illustrates the power of social media to spread news, and fast, and to provide a window into reader reactions world-wide.
I heard about the death of Osama Bin Laden the same way a lot of other people across the country did – while I was doing something else on a […]
Ever wanted to travel back in time to your favorite city and imagine how it actually existed hundreds of years ago? Or hear the stories of a city’s residents in […]
Since Dennis Tito became the first space tourist at the beginning of the last decade, the commercial space industry has taken a great leap forward.
Osama bin Laden’s assassination is, I believe, a great victory for the U.S. in the fight against violent fundamentalism. It’s also a great relief to me personally that he is […]
Near-Earth Asteroids are a threat to our planet, but they also represent an opportunity to generate enormous wealth, and may drive the commercial space race.
Search is broken, and everyone is scrambling to fix it. Could social networking make search technology potent again?
Michigan does not have a monopoly on hand-based cartography.
Last night President Obama announced that 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden had been killed in a compound near the capital of Pakistan. I’m a little taken aback by the jingoistic […]
It has been a busy weekend in the news. Likely lost in all the hub-bub is the continued activity at Tungurahua in Ecuador. The volcano has continued to erupt (video), producing […]
In a guest post today, Melissa Johnson considers the challenge in conveying the risks of climate change without resulting to dire messages that might unintentionally seed ambivalence or even strengthen […]
This week is Children’s Book Week. In honor of the event, I thought that I’d highlight 21 interesting e-books for kids. Collectively, these give us a glimpse into what the future […]
The author of “The Bin Ladens: An Arabic Family in an American Century” details Osama bin Ladin’s indoctrination and evolution from billionaire heir to the international face of terrorism.
As European economies continue to restructure, the polite word for defaulting, the European Central Bank has appointed Mario Draghi, a former Goldman Sachs employee, to its top post.
After a host of American-supported dictators were recently ousted, President Obama has assumed the unlikely role of appointing new foreign leaders. Will he repeat the mistakes of the past?
From the Middle East to Madagascar, escalating food prices are spawning land grabs and ousting dictators. Welcome to the 21st-century food wars, says Foreign Policy’s Lester Brown.
I hate to be a party pooper. Nor am I natural believer in conspiracy theories. I tend to subscribe to the ‘cock up’ rather than ‘conspiracy’ view, and I’ve rarely […]
Corrupt business practices are triumphing over political systems across the globe and the problem is worst in rich countries supposedly with “good governance”, says Jeffrey Sachs.
Ending a ten year man hunt, the killing of Osama bin Laden in a city just north of Pakistan’s capital will unite the U.S. at a time of bitter political divide, says the Washington Post’s Dan Balz.
It will be one of the most closely—and widely—read speeches of any U.S. President in the twenty-first century, and perhaps even one of the most closely read of any U.S. […]