This past weekend people gathered in the nation’s capitol to mark the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech that was part of the […]
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Whether Americans agree with Secretary John Kerry or not that attacks on civilians by the Syrian government are a “moral obscenity,” only 9 percent support military intervention.
Two scientists with different perspectives don’t have to agree on the merits, but they have to agree on why they disagree.
When I speak to friends in the music industry they often lament the fact that it isn’t like the old days where the record label got behind you.
As the Arctic ice continues to melt due to rising global temperatures, Russia is aggressively pursuing new trading routes.
Newly released top secret documents shed light on the U.S. involvement in Iraq’s use of chemical weapons in the 1980’s.
Abnormality is simply a context game.
How do we get more and more people involved in creative class work using their minds, using their creativity?
I’ve never been pregnant myself, but I know people who have. Pregnancy can be a wonderful experience, but it has its downsides too, like having to feel bad whenever you […]
This image is a collage of more than 1,400 images shared by people on Earth who “waved” back to Saturn.
Not too long ago I found myself in a red—a very deep red—state, for a research trip. It’s the sort of place where they feel compelled to post on the […]
Alongside Brazil, Russia, and China, expectations for India included double digit economic growth, an innovative automobile industry, and strong currency.
When the financial crisis first struck, Bernanke “said the Fed had to operate fundamentally differently to get through this.”
Through the first decade of the twenty-first century, cash infusion from China fueled growth in the United States to the tune of nearly $3.5 trillion.
Neuroscientists have taught a computer program how pixels from brain scans correspond to individual pixels in letters of the alphabet.
Malcolm Gladwell is defending his claim that 10,000 hours worth of practice is generally necessary before becoming an expert in highly complex fields.
University of Michigan researchers have found that staying connected to others through social media, specifically Facebook, exacts a heavy psychological tole.
Evidence points to around a 20 percent reduction in mortality among volunteers compared to non-volunteers in cohort studies.
There is a cheap, safe, chemopreventive agent for prostate cancer. It’s called selenium. But virtually nothing has been done to get the word out.
Long considered an area in which willpower reigned supreme, new scientific analyses suggest there is a positive correlation between viewing violence and acting violently.
You need to think of what a brand is in concrete terms: Where are you influencing and who knows about you and what do they say about you?
Sex existed on this planet hundreds of millions of years before homo sapiens came along and it will exist long after we’re gone and sex runs our lives.
The anticipated pain and the fear of what might happen by coming out is less scary than a life in the closet.
The objections to all of these phenomena are really not what people say they are.
The theory is we should protect people from themselves.
Big Bang Theory doesn’t tell you what banged, when it banged, how it banged.
Your own body in some sense is also a time machine because time does not beat at the same rate inside your body which is now a measurable affect.
Business at it’s best it can be an engine of the kind of change that we all want to help us live better lives.
It’s not enough just to understand finance, you have to understand what the human rights community thinks.
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