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Eric Blair (George Orwell’s real name) himself might not like the use of the damning, eponymous term “Orwellian”
What if Conservative ideology is more Kafka than Orwell? Are the people who say they fear an imminent dystopia actually just really annoyed?
What an odd and outdated national value the British have.
Two Hollywood studios have shortened the window between theatrical and home entertainment distribution to as little as three weeks, giving customers the option of seeing movies at home while they’re still playing broadly in theatres.
The National Security Agency leak is only the latest in a series of events in which “super-users” have caused significant damage to a company or organization. What, if anything, can be done to prevent such rogue behavior?
A little bit of philosophy can be a dangerous thing.
Government cultural authorities in Uzbekistan have barred a number of popular musicians from performing their work live, branding the content of their songs as “meaningless”.
Today’s decision warns colleges and universities across the country that they need to be very careful about how they use race in admissions. But the headline is clear: they still may do so.
The only way in which we can bring our creative resources fully into play is by misjudging the nature of the task, by presenting it to ourselves as more routine than it will turn out to be.
If you have a play list you listen to while exercising, you are one of many who find music a helpful physical aid. But what is it about music that gets us going?
Scientists at the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, have found relationship between pet owners and dogs to be highly similar to the deep connection between young children and their parents.
Possibly hundreds of them are flying right now in a variety of commercial applications. Besides the illegality surrounding their taking pictures, officials are worried about their endangering people, property, or other aircraft.
Next week, the government will grant licenses to two foreign mobile service providers, who will help it achieve its goal of bringing wireless coverage to at least 80 percent of the country by 2015.
Sometimes what doesn’t kill us makes us weaker.
Spreading luck around isn’t as easy as it sounds.
This week marks the launch of @SummerBreak, an eight-week series that can only be “watched” on Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and similar sites. The goal: To reach Millennials on their own turf.
Toddlers’ speech patterns were thought to lack the grammatical architecture used by adults, but new research suggests that children just learning to talk have already begun obeying grammatical rules.
New research suggests that the father-child bond is remarkably similar to the mother-child bond in terms of the essential physical communication that takes place during a child’s infant years.
In a controversial book, What Do Women Want? Adventures in the Science of Female Desire, journalist Daniel Bergner argues that female sexual desire is just as strong and just as […]
I wrote a short post on Thursday suggesting that whether you’re a fan or a sworn enemy of the surveillance state, you’d be wrong to condemn the pending prosecution of […]
Straight from the pages of “Harry Potter”: The multi-camera system is currently used in nursing homes to monitor residents. However, its designers say it could help identify suspected terrorists in public settings.
Made of an abundant and inexpensive compound, the sensor could make digital cameras five times more sensitive to light, “opening up” the realms of low-light and night photography.
A new study reveals that British parents are increasingly relying on e-mails, text messages and social media to communicate with their partners and children, even when they are all under the same roof.
That’s the question curators at New York’s Whitney Museum had to answer when looking at a Web-based work acquired in 1995.
The man who killed a prostitute because she wouldn’t return his $150 has been acquitted. Now what?
Which sayings are true, and which ones just sound nice?
“Early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.” Really?
Researchers have launched a project that will figure out how to get the sensors we carry (or will carry) on our bodies to talk to each other, creating “cooperative interpersonal networks” that relay a wide range of data.
Works of great literature are often said to possess a special moral sensibility that considers human nature from an elevated position and guides us down the moral pathway.