Today, north of the border, in one of my favorite Canadian cities, there is a book launch for Michelle Shephard’s new book, Decade of Fear: Reporting from Terrorism’s Grey Zone. […]
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Entrepreneur and virtuoso exam-taker Shawn O’Connor explains how to unleash your brain’s inner genius and conquer any test.
The Gates Foundation has made a new foray into the contentious field of GMO crops. This time it’s a bid to develop virus-resistant cassava varieties for Africa.
IBM envisages tomorrow’s computer as a big sandwich of silicon chips. It’s teaming up with 3M to develop a special glue that would make the evolutionary leap in computing possible.
This semester I am teaching a doctoral seminar on the important questions and trends related to media, technology and democracy. In this post, I introduce several major topics and provide […]
The GOP debate was last night was terrible. Too many participants, too much time for everyone to crank up their stump speech answers, too little heat on follow up questions, […]
In a report published in January 2011, 75% of the students surveyed said that they would prefer printed textbooks over digital textbooks. About one week ago, the Kno app for […]
This week Feministing called the UK Bill that would have banned abortion counseling “anti-choice” legislation. I think they have got that all wrong. The current arrangement gives abortion providers a financial […]
Presidential hopeful Rick Perry told a little kid that if he were a superhero, he’d be Superman, a great American. Jay Smooth of Ill Doctrine thinks that’s a great idea. […]
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A Belgian company is working on mining landfills to remove raw materials and make energy and building materials out of them, and then redevelop the land.
Robots are bad at adapting to new situations, such as recognizing new objects, but researchers have found a way to make them better at figuring things out for themselves.
The same high-tech magnets used in MRI machines may soon be used to make wind turbines more efficient, thereby generating more clean energy from the wind.
It seems I wasn’t the only one who took a month off. With the brutal crackdowns in Syria and the stunning events in Libya, Yemen has largely dropped out of […]
The key to managing change in the modern world is not having all of the answers, but rather being able to ask the right questions.
One of my favorite movies is When Harry Met Sally. I can watch it over and over and love it every single time—maybe even more than I did before. There’s […]
After a much need break from the internet, blogging, and twitter, I have returned to the US and Waq al-waq. I spent much of my break camping, fishing, and reading […]
Hitchens always speaks his mind, and that’s always good, even when he’s not right. So he’s told us that God is not great and that, in fact, God ruins everything. He’s […]
I finally found one word to describe Memory as Medicine, the Radcliffe Bailey exhibition I saw last Saturday – colossal. More than mere paint on canvas, the huge multimedia selections […]
Scientists believe ocean acidification—which is the trend again today—may have played a big role in the Earth’s worst extinction crisis 250 million years ago.
With 70 percent of Japanese now saying they want to phase out atomic energy, legislators have passed a bill to subsidize wind and solar power.
After a little (ahem) confusion this morning, we’re back on track (for now). A few quick hits for a grey Ohio morning: Iceland: The news from Katla hasn’t changed much […]
Is fundamental physics too heavy on theory? Jon Butterworth says it’s a hugely worthwhile exercise, unless you are utterly uninterested in understanding how things work.
Severe storms will become the new normal. Ensuring our cities have ubiquitous Wi-Fi, GPS, smart transit, and smart grids would be a smart way to make them more resilient.
The idea of infecting Mars with our germs is not new, but one microbiologist believes the next rover may have a higher chance of becoming a microbe lifeboat. Unlikely but possible.
It seemed to me as if politicians began using the phrase “pre-9/11 thinking” too soon after the day itself. Even a decade later, Dick Cheney in his recent memoir condemns […]
Silicon Valley innovators Apple and Google may be the best hope left for rescuing the struggling solar power industry. At a time when solar energy companies continue to file for […]
Where did America’s growth go? Economists can with reasonable accuracy break down a country’s economic growth into its various components. When you look at the data compiled by the St. […]
Hulu, OpenTable, Rovio, Travelzoo, AOL’s ad network, Rovi, Twitter, NVIDIA, Sprint, and Salesforce. They are companies Business Insider tips Google might want to acquire next.
Former Prime Minister, Tony Blair and former UK Foreign Secretaries Jack Straw and David Miliband, now face some extremely tough questions as to how much they knew about the extraordinary […]