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The Search engines rule the web world. Are you visible or not? Just getting started with making your web presence. Hold your Place and make your online Presence with set of social networking participation.
In the largest health care study ever undertaken, researchers from Harvard and Princeton have given high marks to Mexico’s most comprehensive health care program, Seguro Popular, for providing care to […]
If managers are questioning the value of social networking on company time—because it’s just another profit-draining distraction—MIT and IBM Research have some news that could change their minds. A study […]
Yesterday was World Health Day, and we would be remiss to let it pass without mentioning what is perhaps the most determined team of doctors in the world, the group […]
Amid all the realignments these uncertain times are causing in our thinking—about our jobs, our world and ourselves—it might be helpful to remember one simple image: a horse wearing blinders. […]
APOE4 is not a genetic variant on the tip of every young person’s tongue. But if you have it, and you’re between the ages of 20 and 35, you may […]
We knew the knowledge gap between creationists and Darwinists in the west was wide. An effort at McGill University now seeks to the understand the position of evolution in the […]
One Silicon Valley’s most innovative entrepreneurs on his new Tesla electric car, whether we should bail out the Big Three, and the world’s most powerful laser. If you were CEO […]
Another day, another mainstream media piece that misses the mark on Facebook. I have an idea for my fellow print journalists. Since owners are now secretly colluding to contrive ways […]
Though good for the planet, easy to park, and increasingly affordable, electric cars, at least those that rely on no supplementary fuel, can have one fatal flaw: they boast all […]
Warning: It is only my educated guess.
Internet addiction is a social ill that saps the potential of youth, drives men from their wives, and reduces worker productivity. But now there’s a cure. China combats internet addiction […]
Discoveries about neuroplasticity--the brain's ability to rewire itself throughout life by creating neural connections in response to mental activity--has led to the new brain centers, which "promise to keep older minds sharp with computer, walnuts and green tea."
In the upcoming Judd Apatow film Funny People, Adam Sandler, referring to his mother, says “I sent her an email and she tried to email me back on a toaster.” […]
Privacy as we knew it in the days of paper and pens is gone, and it isn’t coming back. Short of withdrawing from our dominant means of communication, i.e., the […]
In the 2002 film Minority Report, audiences were shocked by scenes in which public advertisements could scan star Tom Cruise’s profile and pitch him ad content based on his tastes. […]
It’s one of the scariest things you could experience in a war zone: a bullet strikes near you, you know not from where it came, and another one is probably […]
The contrast is sharp. There are two important stories about stem cells today. The first, from FoxNews is entitled “States Consider Harder Line on Stem Cell Research.” It’s about how […]
Using trans epidermal nervous stimulation by way of an elastic sleeve and computer it is possible to create a peristaltic wave in the skeletal muscles. This, along with the valves in veins would assist the heart. Seen as effective for assist after auto collision when chest damage precludes traditional CPR..or possibly PAD
Why should we differentiate between a blog, micro-blog, "idea", macro-blog, and macaroni and cheese?
Really, we should just say "thing".
Ever since influencial D.C. blogger Ana Marie Cox twittered that Twitter is now a search engine, I searched the micro-blog site for bonus chatter. Here’s what I found: sstroeer: Guys […]
While nearly everyone knows that March 17 is St. Patrick’s Day, nobody seems to know that March 19 is St. Joseph’s Day. While there have been some traditional Italian celebrations […]
The environmentalist’s horror image of an oil spill is usually the affliction to wildlife—birds and fish coated in black crude, struggling to move or to breathe. But a study by […]
One overlooked facet amid all the upheavals spurred by the digitization of global media is how it has thrust foreign reporters into the public sphere in their once exotic foreign […]
In March 2003, I served as a member of the prosecution team that drafted an indictment against the then-President of Liberia, Charles Taylor. The crucial role of the International Criminal […]
Albert Einstein once opined, “you can’t solve a problem with the same mind that created it.” How then, can we begin to cure our global economic ailments using the same […]
Expository Essay exploring the traits of Down Syndrome, and how to predict this syndrome.
Water of life. Little water. Little stream. Zhizennia voda. The names under which Russian vodka masquerades are many and varied, as one might expect with the libation at the heart […]
Brian Doherty, a senior editor at Reason magazine and the author of This is Burning Man and Radicals for Capitalism, reflects on whether the hero of the new graphic novel […]
Comic villains are always hatching nefarious schemes. These usually involve forcing a superhero to choose between saving an entire planet or the woman he loves. Why are ecologists finding themselves […]