Guest Thinkers

3-D printing and rapid prototyping have been among the hottest trends in design innovation this year. But Urbee, a two-passenger hybrid vehicle whose entire body has been generated using a […]

In this brief video accompanying their obituary, the New York Times asks Ted Sorenson to discuss his relationship with President Kennedy. It was a relationship without contemporary analog, like Sorenson […]

Advertisers understand the importance of employing images and messages that resonate with an intended audience’s values and identity.  It’s not surprising then that Nissan in promoting the all-electric Leaf is […]

From Andrew Morse at ABC News, who has been aggravated by yours truly and the 125,000 other petitioners from Color of Change since yesterday about their decision to feature serial […]

Any list of the most photographed people in history certainly has to include Marilyn Monroe. Just when you think we’ve seen every possible image of the iconic starlet, a new […]

Do you have any bad memories? Traumatic memories come in all shapes and sizes. Some are terrible gut-wrenching ones like being raped, beaten, or shot during combat. Others are based […]

Turnout in U.S. midterm elections averages a dismal 40%. The lamest excuse not to vote is that there’s no one good to vote for. That’s chipper talk. As a hardcore […]

Remember The Who, talkin’ ’bout their generation? Maybe to a 20-year-old guy in the 1960s, the idea of wanting to die before getting old sounded pretty cool. But, you would […]

Could the power of gravity be harnessed as a means of nearly instantaneous communication between planets—and even galaxies?

I’ve been trying to keep up with all the volcano news in the outside world while attending the conference … and boy it is a bit of a challenge. Thank […]

Opponents of California’s Proposition 23, a measure that would block legislation to limit greenhouse gas emissions, have turned to a public health focus to mobilize Latino voters. Research that I […]

From the Ohio State University Research News Service, a discussion of issues closely followed here at Age of Engagement.  See also the full report. COLUMBUS, Ohio – Evidence is no […]

Greenwashing is like whitewashing. Whitewashing means covering up any black marks on something’s record to make it seem better than it really is. By the same token, greenwashing means making […]

In late August 1893, painter Paul Gauguin returned to Paris after spending the previous few years in Tahiti, the Polynesian paradise that propelled his art to a whole new level. […]

Claims about the size of rallies on the National Mall are an important framing device that advocates and journalists use to communicate the strength and impact of a movement. Of […]

I’ve been at the 2010 GSA Meeting for the last day or so and as usual, there is more information that I can handle. However, there is a lot of […]

I’m still at GSA 2010 – I’ll have another post with some news/facts from the meeting – but my lack of a computer yesterday and the fact that my hotel […]

“It’s high time we recognize that carbon dioxide has been treated unfairly.” Forbes’ Larry Bell touts the accomplishments of the oft-reviled chemical compound.

“Why does the name ‘Hitler’ still hold this magical fascination?” Cornelia Günther reviews only the second exhibition in Germany ever dedicated to Adolf Hitler.

“Some of the boldest eco-warriors are those with the most to lose—our children.” The Independent says pester power can get parents to go green.

It’s actually pretty simple to get a severed mooshead delivered to your bed, Godfather style. Step One—raise money only from rich donors and foreign corporations to back GOP candidates you […]

We have all sat through the laborious exercise of having a family picture taken. The end result of the chaos is typical across almost all families: a happy picture showing two gray […]

I recently wrote of the bear pit into which habitual ‘Twitterers’ can fall, and today the British newspapers are full of writer and broadcaster, Stephen Fry’s Twitter comments about women […]

Let us now praise Doonesbury, a body of work and a work of art that could be compared to the Bayeux Tapestry, and which also has been compared, in the […]

“It’s easy to decide to change, but harder to make that change feel normal.” Trent Hamm gives tips on how to turn good intentions into new good habits.

“China may not matter quite as much as you think.” The Economist says that while China is becoming the world’s biggest market, it cannot replace the world market.

“When did Halloween become, to use the marketing phrase of the moment, spooktacular?” The New Yorker’s Susan Orlean reflects on simpler Halloweens of yesteryear.

Good news if you happen to be a corporation: corporate profits went up 62% from the beginning of 2009 to the middle of 2010. That’s a larger increase than over […]

Given that machines will continue to proliferate in our environment, it behooves us to begin to develop friendly relationships with them.

In a nation of over 300 million people, you would think that ABC could find someone else besides Andrew Breitbart to analyze election results. Who are they going to feature […]