President Obama will establish a new federal agency to create new classification procedure and declassify some 400 million pages of government documents.
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The Obama Administration is gearing up to support immigration reform that improves border security and provides a path to citizenship.
New research suggests that scrambled connections in brain regions that process fear and emotions are to blame for anxiety disorders.
A complex algorithm ensuring eighty percent of cell phone calls are kept private has been hacked by a 28 year-old German who says he acted in good faith.
The U.K. is putting up $2 million to fund paid theater internships for young adults in order to develop the country’s cultural ambitions.
The Republican strategy to run on repealing healthcare legislation in the 2010 midterms will surely backfire, writes the New Republic.
An Illinois physics professor helped the Secret Service to break up a ring of businesses making huge profits by selling fake diplomas.
The Japanese have created a robotic hummingbird that weighs two and a half grams and flaps its wings 30 times per second.
Kudos to Matthew Urbanksi, the principle landscape architect (Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates) charged with mapping the natural layout of a new $3.8 million Manhattan playground. Urbanski thought to consult experts […]
While flipping through a copy of the New Yorker magazine earlier today, I came across an article written by Burkhard Bilger titled “Hearth Surgery”, which took a look at the […]
This week’s installment of What Went Wrong includes an interview with the former head council for AIG, Ernest Patrikis. He weighs in on what could have happened if the Fed […]
The Economist’s Christmas Issue one-act, “Gordon Rex,” might be funny or—in that uniquely English, Economist-y way—slightly self-consciously aloof, but it makes us long for more. More Brown in verse. More […]
Warfare’s effect and risk is unique to the person. Populations face war as individuals.
Two members of the Al Qaeda group claiming responsibility for the attempted Christmas Day bombing were released from Gitmo in 2007.
The White House decries newly proposed settlements in East Jerusalem which Israel says are not covered by its proposed construction moratorium.
China executed a British citizen early this morning for smuggling heroin despite claims the man was severely mentally ill.
Newt Gingrich says that during the 2010 midterm elections Republicans will run on repealing any healthcare legislation made into law.
Pirates have taken a U.K. flagged chemical tanker off the coast of Somalia in the Gulf of Aden and can be expected to demand a ransom.
A U.S. judge has ruled that the BitTorrent search engine ISO Hunt is illegal because it celebrates copyright violation.
Grant money is sought to preserve an attendance log that Robert Frost kept while he was teaching at a grammar school in Methuen, MA.
Scientists believe that the “hunger gene” which tells the brain when the body needs food can act when we’re already full.
Researchers have created solar panels tiny as glitter specks which could be placed anywhere to power the future.
European companies have built China the world’s fastest train which took its maiden voyage last weekend.
Exciting news for Gen-Y back-to-the-landers this month. If you went upstate after college instead of to Wall Street, if you’re growing carrots and raising beef to sell at local farmers’ […]
In a speech in early December, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) repeated the charge that the Republicans have become “the party of No.” Rather than working to improve the […]
I keep getting whiffs of Apple’s tablet computer. See what’s cooking after the jump. Wired has the most recent report. It sounds like Apple is leaking it some info. There […]
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian man accused of trying blow up Northwest Flight 253 to Detroit, is in many ways the very model of a modern terrorist. Like many al-Qaeda […]
It’s hard to avoid the barrage of end-of-decade retrospectives this last week of 2009, a decade marked by an interesting combination of the sublime and the ridiculous. But in a […]
The U.S. has an increasing military presence in Yemen which is seen as the next potential training ground for Al Qaeda operatives.
That the Nigerian terrorist was not investigated is due to a massive database of 500,000 possible terrorists, officials say.