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.
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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. […]
When the news hit that the U.S. had killed Osama bin Laden in northern Pakistan, analysts everywhere pointed out that he was no longer involved in Al Qaeda’s operations. Indeed, […]
When it comes to greenhouse gases, it’s not what we make, it’s what we consume. The Economist recently published the results of a paper that was in The Proceedings of […]
As a die-hard chocolate lover, allow me to bring to your attention this great piece of pacakaging by typography creator and graphic designer from Budapest – Lilla Tóth. And if I […]
The divide between sleep and wakefulness may not be as clearcut as we thought. Recent research shows that in visibly awake rats, some areas of the brain’s cortex go “offline”.
Why does more education lead to less accurate beliefs? The answer returns us to the difference between rational voters (what we think we are) and rationalizing voters (what we really are).
Seniors who lose their jobs or retire voluntarily are likely to gain weight, become hypertensive and even develop depression, says professor of medicine at U.S.C., Katherine Schlaerth.
In a new study, U.C.L.A. life scientists report that veterans of war, rape victims and other witnesses to horrific crimes could have the traumatic memories that haunt them weakened in their brains.
Officials in one Boston suburb are the first to move beyond the traditional measure of success—economic growth—and track their citizens’ happiness as a measure of wellbeing.
The main thing I try to remember whenever I write a piece for this blog is to stay in control of the narrative. The narrative is not just an academic […]
One of the biggest debates inside the world of art criticism and scholarship is whether art, especially world art, can be understood without the idea of culture. In the debut […]
“The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks”, says Jeff Hammerbacher, the researcher who laid the foundation for facebook’s precision advertising model. […]
Yuval Levin, the most astute and imaginative of the Republican public intellectuals, has noticed that Democrats have stopped being progressive. That means, from one view, they no longer believe that History (with […]
Spring has sprung in here in New York City, stripping off our layers of winter clothes. The eye falls with pleasure on a pair of pretty feminine legs in a […]