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Have we ignored another of the criminal justice system’s major issues?
If all the rational arguments argue against American gun culture, then the irrational (sometimes creepy) ones must be to blame for our fatal firearms attraction.
Scalia was sitting right next to Clarence Thomas, the sole African-American justice, when he made these startling comments.
Germans are cold and hard. Filipinos are warm and soft. Or is that oversimplifying it?
Giving the streets back to folks for whom they were originally designed: pedestrians.
Making Internet available where there once was none.
Dark things come in small packages, but the reason why is what’s truly astounding. “A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.” […]
Building encryption into everyday services is more than just good business.
Renewable energy is just good business.
Sigmund Freud said the two great protections we all had against inevitable human suffering were love and work. Will we lose work in the second machine age?
Robots and computers will not just eliminate our jobs; they will also dissolve important aspects of the family and our pair-bonded partnerships.
A beautiful Scandinavian country might be paying its residents more than $800 a month, with no strings attached.
Beijing just had a red alert for air quality for the first time. But what else is it up to?
We will need a good dose of healthy stoicism if we are to survive in the world after work.
A big part of our current mess has to do with how little about religion we actually know.
About 1.15 million people in the U.S. have died from gun violence since John Lennon’s death 35 years ago. What can his life and music tell us about how to respond to violence, intolerance, and hate?
I assume France will be cutting out the “liberté” part of its “liberté, égalité, fraternité” motto?
You know you’ve gone off the deep end when the human incarnation of Darth Vader says your proposal “goes against everything we stand for and believe in.”
If we can’t reach a national consensus and the Supreme Court can’t agree, it might be for each state to decide.
Though perhaps not the most pressing, believe it or not.
Knowing how to code becomes the next phase of literacy.
The Second Amendment is “… not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose.”
If You Work in a Creative Industry, You Should Steal Other People’s Ideas Just as Shakespeare lifted plots from his predecessors, young performers today ought to focus on emulating those […]
Technology companies are under pressure to remove violent, terrorist content from their sites. Who should decide what gets removed?
The largest asteroid in the Solar System is hiding volatile materials that have never seen the Sun. “Lots of science fiction deals with distant times and places. Intrepid prospectors in the […]
How to stop mass shootings? Maps speak louder than words.
Don’t even think about getting anything other than this one! “No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars.” –Quintus Ennius If you are (or you […]
Religion is part of the problem. But the bigger picture is much larger than any one book.
People who believe that vague, mundane, vacuous quotes are truly profound also show indications of decreased cognitive ability.