For some, a list of 1001 books you “must” read is no mere suggestion. Jeremy Dauber explains his addiction to lists and why he thinks they are a cultural boon.
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Two new books argue that the good book isn’t the squeaky-clean endorsement of no-sex-until-marriage that conservatives say it is. Go forth and spread the good news.
What are the characteristics of a good courtship gift? Mating is predominantly facilitated by an extravagant gift which is costly to the male but intrinsically worthless to the female.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics announced the unemployment rate for January had fallen, but how could it decline so much if businesses added so few workers?
Contrary to the “cyberutopians,” who consider the Internet a powerful tool of political emancipation, the Internet more often than not constricts or even abolishes freedom.
Lately, the drive to fix the climate has taken the form of large-scale geoengineering projects designed to reverse the effects of global warming.
The fact that people are economically irrational shows us precisely why government safety-net programmes are necessary, says Mike Konczal at the Roosevelt Institute.
Sports, and most importantly talking about sports, is the only activity just about all Americans share regardless of age, education, or wealth. It is what unites Wall Street and Main Street.
Those of us writers who are not experts on foreign policy have done more reading than writing this week about the tense situation between the Egyptian government and the Egyptian […]
It will not take much to fuel the ire of the Arab Street, as people begin to look beyond regime change in their own countries, and toward what their old regimes did or didn’t do when it came to Israel.
SETI’s search for extraterrestrial life has failed for decades. A likely reason might be they are looking for aliens who look like your neighbors at twilight.
Evidence is mounting that football is even more damaging to the brain than it is to the body—with links to Alzheimer’s disease and dementia.
Based on interviews with over three hundred of the world’s top scientists, who are already inventing the future in their labs, I present the revolutionary developments in medicine, computers, quantum […]
With the site’s (admitted) connections to pharmaceutical and other companies, WebMD has become permeated with pseudomedicine and subtle misinformation.
Whether you’re a fan or not, the massive outpouring of grief this week in response to the news that minimalist rock band the White Stripes were to split up might seem puzzling.
Ever wished you could think more laterally to solve a problem? Zapping the brain with electricity helps people think outside the box to solve a task.
Is our psychological capacity the “one big thing” that could help us finally understand what it means to be human? Could it tell us something about how we find meaning in the universe?
Prime Minister David Cameron has launched a devastating attack on 30 years of multiculturalism in Britain, warning it is fostering extremist ideology and contributing to Islamic terrorism.
Think Twitter and other social media networks would cause people all over the world to start talking in the exact same way? In fact, the opposite may be true, say researchers.
Sunday, February 6, will be the centenary of his birth. Looking at the Ronald Reagan presidency from today, can we get any sense of how he rates in history?
Why do people play the lottery? On the one hand, the answer is obvious enough: We’re happy to spend $3 for approximately 15 seconds of irrational hope.
Burying trash—the usual way of disposing of the stuff—is old-fashioned and polluting. Atomizing trash eliminates the need to dump it, and generates useful power too.
We are all caught up in a crazy arms race to send our kids to prestigious colleges, where the order of the day (to borrow a useful term from the Cold War) is “escalation dominance.”
For a country that created a special holiday just to remember those who have fought for our freedoms in war, we do a lot of forgetting the rest of the […]
Gay Talese, the New Journalism portraitist of such machos as Joe DiMaggio, Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra says respect, not sex, is the key to a happy marriage.
If you’re not a gamer, it’s hard to imagine why 183 million Americans spend over 13 hours a week playing video games. It’s even harder to see why game designer Jane […]
Many of the fastest growing states—like Nevada, whose population grew at a brisk 35.1%—are also states with large Hispanic populations.
Does every type of cancer require its own individualized treatment, or might there be a universal cure? Scientists James Watson and Paul Davies suggest some new and unorthodox approaches to cancer treatment.
Cancer cells are your own body, your own cells, just misbehaving and going a bit wrong. Therefore, we don’t need to cure cancer, just control it.