While China has been investing in its urban infrastructure at a frenetic pace, India’s city infrastructure remains well behind its northern neighbor. But a new sea bridge in Mumbai could […]
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At Monday’s Personal Democracy Forum in Manhattan, I asked David Corn, chief of the Washington Bureau for Mother Jones and a blogger for CQ Politics, for his opinion on a […]
With the travel industry adjusting to today’s modestly priced, environmentally conscious mandate, it’s time to consider new concepts for hotels. Thinking outside the box, Morris Architects took home a prize […]
Zeke Vanderhoek will start one of the most progressive secondary education projects in American history in two months. His mandate: create a model of educational excellence for promising low-income students […]
From a live webcast this morning at the Personal Democracy forum, Mayor Bloomberg announced five new initiatives the New York City government is using to make government more accessible. 1) […]
Malicious computer attacks act a lot like Michael Jackson fans. And in the digital age, both can have quite the ripple effect. Since the King of Pop’s passing on Thursday […]
Considering how much attention the media pays to celebrities when they’re alive, it seems inevitable that the death of Michael Jackson will set a new precedent in wrangling over a […]
More information keeps trickling in on Tuesday’s Washington D.C. Metro accident. With the official death toll now at nine with 80 injured, it all serves as a reminder that no […]
If there’s one thing pretty much everyone can agree on when it comes to legacy infrastructure, it is that, by and large, it doesn’t really work anymore. American interstates have […]
How to improve a struggling student’s academic performance has bedeviled educators and parents alike. Is poor performance the fault of the curriculum, the teachers, the student, conditions at home or […]
You’ve probably felt the increase in your heart rate listening to a fiery punk song or the relaxation induced by a slow ballad. But Italian researchers just completed a study […]
Peter W. Singer explains how the robotics revolution will allow generals the ability to micromanage even low-level operations.
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is on its way. After a flawless launch at about 5:30 Eastern Time yesterday, NASA’s nearly $600 million satellite is en route to the moon. The […]
The economic spiral has seen the birth of a disconcerting social experiment. Tent cities, first on the West Coast and now in the East, are testing a new model for […]
Are you a C-SPAN addict, an incorrigible policy wonk, a wannabe beltway insider and a religious Twitterer? Then The Atlantic has a list for you. From the Deputy Prime Minister […]
Iranian expats living in Spain have recently illuminated the backdrop of the YouTube and Twitter main stage by which the Iranian elections are currently understood. Speaking with several of them […]
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Comedy man Bill Scheft came by the studio yesterday to talk about writing, stand-up, Jewish humor and the role of comedy in today’s pop culture. Describing comedy writing as making […]
With the mother of all opposition protests set to happen tomorrow and major news media ordered to stay in their offices, Tehran followers are looking to other venues for their […]
While most of the high-minded concern over the death of newspapers has been over the quality of future reporting and the role of news in a democratic society, it has […]
Bloggers the world over are uniting to support free speech in Iran with all the brilliance and subtlety only the Internet could muster. In a movement to obscure reporting from […]
Why do we need healthcare insurance? Why to get insured when it has been proven time and again that the coverage (or sufficient coverage) is not there when we really […]
The cleaning industry isn’t always, well, all that clean. But a new trend in product transparency could be revealing its dirty side for the better. In February, a coalition of […]
A giant magma pool sits underneath Yellowstone National Park, threatening to erupt on a monumental scale, and now it seems the U.S. could harbor a second such supervolcano in a […]
How the Talented Tenth has worked to arrest Black self-determination in the United States
When Network World selected 9 technologies IT pros should master in 2009, two of them were microblogging platforms: Twitter and Yammer. While most people are familiar with Twitter, relatively few […]
Nearly every new technology is hailed (at least by its creators) as one that will “revolutionize” this or that aspect of our lives. Upon closer examination, however, the hype is […]