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NASA scientists and engineers are about to launch a balloon to retrieve samples from what one describes as “really the last ecosystem on the planet to be explored.”
Days before climate negotiations resume in Qatar, the organization’s Environment Program has released a report claiming that governments aren’t doing nearly enough to fight global warming.
A new report from the World Resources Institute says that at least 1,199 coal plants are being planned worldwide, with a growing number of them proposed for developing countries.
Earlier this week, I answered a set of “tough questions” posed to advocates of reproductive choice. Well, turnabout is fair play. Although millions of religious people want abortion to be […]
“Consider two companies that are each given a billion dollars and ten months to close a sale,” Mohan Kompella says. “One does, the other doesn’t. What should the losing side […]
In story after story after story, one powerfully persistent meme of the 2012 American presidential election was that the GOP faced a significant “demographics problem” in which the growing numbers […]
To keep revenues coming in, some content sites are experimenting with the micropayment model, in which the majority of a chosen article is made available only after the reader pays a small fee.
Currently in use at five companies across the US and Europe: Mannequins equipped with a camera that sends data to a facial-recognition program.
Today I published an op-ed in the NY Times, arguing that the “Yemen model” approach to counterterrorism is deeply flawed. I also suggest a way forward for the Obama administration […]
I’ve received dozens of emails since my New York Times op-ed proposing a wealth tax came out on Monday. My goal with the piece was primarily to refocus the inequality […]
In the latest issue of New York Review of Books, Robert Worth reviews The Last Refuge along with Edmund Hull’s book, High Value Target. Worth opens like this: Yemen is […]
Down in the dumps? You’d better watch your wallet, among other things.
What’s the Big Idea? The famous “trolley problem” was a psychological experiment developed by Philippa Foot that involved a railway trolley headed toward five people who can’t get out of […]
Starting today, New York City is replacing traditional pay phones with touchscreens that will provide weather data, safety alerts, coupons for local shops, and more.
Researchers used simulations to measure physicians against high school- and college-age gamers. In all tests involving robot assistance, the gamers’ skills were equal or better.
In terms of their teens’ online activities, interaction with strangers still ranks (just barely) as the top concern, according to a new Pew Center/Harvard report.
In a discussion of the five major trends that will change the world over the next 25 years, star architect Daniel Libeskind recently told Conde Nast that the long-term trend toward urbanization will help […]
Henry Rollins says that education has always been, and will need to continue to be, the main ingredient in shaping our future.
Desperate to reduce the amount of unsold housing stock, Spain has announced a proposal to offer residency permits to foreign buyers.
The Science Channel will re-run all five seasons of the sci-fi cult drama Fringe beginning tonight at 8pm. The two-hour pilot will air along with the first episode, followed by daylong […]
Despite the fact that homosexuality is still criminalized in many countries, recent active and proposed legislation in a number of countries suggests a rapidly growing trend.
The 2013 German Michelin Guide contains twice as many two-star restaurants as last year’s, and more three-star restaurants than those of every other European country except France.
Forget the “pivot” or the “reboot” or the once ubiquitous “2.0” – the hot new technology buzzword this holiday season is the “mobile facelift.” From Silicon Valley to New York […]
“Millions of words have been written about organizational leadership – especially in an anxious economy.” So writes John Boyle in his introduction to Leadership in Uncertain Times, a series of […]
Funeral costs went up by a third in the past decade despite the passage of a 1993 law designed to help prevent that from happening. Several new companies are offering much more affordable services, often through the Internet.
Tim Ferriss’s new book, The 4-Hour Chef, is a book about learning disguised as a cookbook.
The more we learn about the universe, the more we move back to the center again.
Last week the member states voted to approve a draft law that would put more women on publicly-traded company boards by 2020.
A decade ago, Chris Hedges titled his analysis of the addictive power of war War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning. If war truly is a force that gives […]