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Sustainability obviously means a lot to the founder of the Copenhagen Climate Council. But Erik Rasmussen, also the CEO of Scandinavian's leading independent think tank Monday Morning, isn't sugar coating […]
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The monologue from her one-woman show reflects a point in her life when the playwright began feeling more connected with Middle Eastern culture.
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The playwright says the situation in the Mideast isn't about Mulsims in conflict with Jews, or even about land—it's a human rights issue.
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The playwright says she tries to maintain a humanist perspective: "Each person who interacts with me is a human being and they are the sum of all of the things […]
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It's emotionally intense for Najla Said to relive her childhood of cultural confusion and her eating disorder on stage.
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Rehearsing for a one-woman show can get lonely and tiring, but once you’ve successfully passed the challenge you feel like you can do anything.
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A conversation with the actress and playwright.
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We may not know how bad global warming will get, but the possible outcomes are so dire that we need to take mitigating steps.
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We need to use what we have better, use less of it, and develop credible alternative sources of energy.
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The RPI president thinks four elements need to be in place to foster scientific innovation: strategic focus, transformative ideas, translational pathways, and capital.
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America's most innovative companies are having an increasingly hard time finding qualified staffers who were born in the U.S.
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Young people need to be exposed early on to the wonders and the beauty of science.
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A conversation with the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute president.
The L.A. Times takes aim at Apple in its editorial, saying the "bare-knuckled competitiveness" that helped it ascend may now be a liability.
Instead of bows and arrows, Brazil's Surui people are using the Internet, GPS and Google Earth to stop the destruction of rainforest, reports Juliane von Mittelstaedt
A major surprise from two genetic surveys — and of great interest to historians — is the genetic closeness of Europe's two Jewish communities, explains Nicholas Wade. rn
“South Africans live in separate but parallel worlds, and old divides continue to exist, 16 years after the end of apartheid." Ullrich Fichtner on the violence, victories and hope.
With Asia expected to overtake Europe in pharmaceutical sales, researchers are focusing on the predominant diseases, and the medicines most likely to work, in emerging markets.
Worried that Twitter is shrinking attention spans, search engines lowering intelligence? Steven Pinker reassures us that I.T. is actually keeping us smart.
I.T. is waking up to the benefits of minimalism thanks to feature fatigue among consumers and strong demand from less affluent consumers in the developing world.