Germany’s government agreed early today to shut down all the country’s nuclear power plants by 2022, making it the first major industrialized nation in the last 25 years to go nuclear-free.
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It is past time to celebrate Iraq’s veterans with a welcome-home parade, says Lawrence Kaplan. America has broken its promise to not repeat the Vietnam-era disrespect of its soldiers.
President Obama has shown himself to be weak in his dealings with the Middle East, says Robert Fisk, and the Arab world is turning its back and shaping its future without American influence.
Looking to past elections to predict the outcome of one soon to come doesn’t usually work that well. Back in October 2008, I looked to eight past elections to try […]
Marc Goodman tells Big Think that in the future “the virtual agents of good and evil will do battle in cyberspace–making this a very interesting field to be in!”
Psychology and neuroscience research indicates that willpower is something that can be developed and enhanced with practice. With that in mind, ex-smokers are willpower kings.
Vivid commercials are incredibly good at tricking the brain’s long-term memory center into believing that the scene we just watched on television actually happened. And it happened to us.
For some people, seeing pain in someone else is more than emotionally distressing: they feel the pain in their own body too. Now some of the pathways involved have been identified.
How do thoughts arise in your brain? Rather than selecting them consciously, the brain’s default-mode network analyzes a situation and determines what your priorities should be.
Krista and Tatiana Hogan are four-year-old twins conjoined at the head, their brains linked by neural pathways that allow them to share the same physical experiences, their doctor says.
Buzz has been building about the possibility of that Sarah Palin will run for President after all. Palin announced on Thursday that she will launch a bus tour of key […]
As I was listening to Chuck Brown and the Soul Searchers last night while surfing the web, I discovered that Gil Scott Heron had died. Heron has always been an […]
That the former Serb General Ratko Mladic was able to escape detection for sixteen years, beggars belief. The relative’s house he used as a ‘safe house’ was reportedly searched some […]
Caltech professor Sean Carroll: “If you claim that some form of soul persists beyond death, what particles is that soul made of? What forces are holding it together? How does it interact with ordinary matter?”
Beyond the online condemnation for two Toronto parents who reportedly refuse to make public the gender of their youngest child, there’s a deeper question on how gender forms, scientists say.
Remarkable genetic differences between a brain of an autistic person and a person without autism found by U.C.L.A. researchers have changed the way doctors and researchers think about autism.
The Obama administration is about to ditch the food pyramid, that symbol of healthy eating for the last two decades. In its place officials are dishing up a simple, plate-shaped symbol.
You think you own the right to your own genetics, but actually someone else owns 20 percent of your genes. How can that be? Biotech companies are snatching up the patent rights.
Surrealism never served its women well. Lee Miller basically seduced Man Ray to gain entry into what was predominantly a men’s club. Leonora Carrington met Max Ernst at a party. […]
Tim Harford, known as the “Malcolm Gladwell of Britain” shares two lessons that illustrate the virtue of dissent: the War in Iraq and the Bay of Pigs invasion.
How can you most effectively communicate given the 140-character limit of Twitter? Who better to ask than the former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky.
Apparently, I am the only person not surprised by the alleged events that took place in Sofitel Hotel in New York City that lead to Dominique Strauss Kahn’s arrest. My […]
My mother had always been a suspicious and secretive person, but it wasn’t until I was 14 that she really went nuts—with many of the same symptoms described in Rachel […]
These are some very elementary observations: It wasn’t long before all responsible observers came to agree with ME that the NY-26 result (despite the quirky details) is one piece of […]
After 25 years, Oprah Winfrey’s history-making TV show has come to an end – and so has The Era of the Analog Celebrity. In many ways, Oprah defined what it […]
After a day of strict task ‘batching’, Cal Newport concludes that the resulting inconvenience in workflow was worth it for the reduced distraction and increased quality of his work.
Seth Godin on why to abandon the excuse-driven life.”If you relentlessly work to avoid opportunities to use your ability to blame, you may never actually need to blame anyone.”
Before you give a speech, practice it out loud, on your feet, as though you were in front of a live audience. Michael Hyatt says it may not sound revolutionary but it really matters.
John Maeda, President of the Rhode Island School of Design, shares leadership lessons and ways to motivate people. Offering students free pizza, for instance, works wonders.
Glen T. Senk, CEO of Philadelphia-based retailer Urban Outfitters, says among the secrets to success are to lead an authentic life and to hire the right people—then listen to them.