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The tendency seems to be toward telling the same old stories with a new kind of “visual panache.” The screenwriter wants to see “more movies of substance.”

Screenwriting is like creating Frankenstein’s monster; assembling body parts is easy, but giving them life is “almost impossible.”

At first, the critical consensus was that “Groundhog Day” was merely “cute.” But over time it developed a mass following of viewers and critics alike.

The screenwriter had 50 meetings with different producers when he was trying to sell his script. The most common reaction: “I loved ‘Groundhog Day.’ Of course, we can’t make it.”

Rubin’s 1993 comedic cult classic is actually an examination of whether one lifetime is enough for some men to fully outgrow adolescence

A conversation with the “Groundhog Day” screenwriter.

The ADL National Director says judgment is still out on whether the positives promised by religion are outweighed by the negatives.

We’re seeing a policy that distances the United States from Israel in order to reach out to the Arab Muslim world.

If criticism of Israel’s policies demeans or degrades the country—or questions its legitimacy—then it’s anti-Semitic.

Sacha Baron Cohen as “Borat” wasn’t funny, says Foxman. Neither was Archie Bunker in “All in the Family.”

Anti-Semitism can be based on everything from religion to ignorance to wealth to capitalism.

A conversation with the National Director of the Anti-Defamation League.

If growers of food paid the full cost of soil erosion, water pollution, adverse health affects on farm workers, organic food would cost half the price of traditional food.

“How many more spills do we need? How many more earthquakes do we need, or volcanoes, or hurricanes? … The earth, in a sense, is telling us, ‘You can’t keep […]

The car company was running ads about the Prius and their commitment to the environment while secretly lobbying in California against increased gas mileage standards.

A conversation with co-founder and CEO of Seventh Generation

The developer behind Winamp and the gnutella network thinks that we shouldn’t be able to patent something that is essentially just math. Software, like DNA, is so abstract that it […]

The developer still writes code on a Microsoft Natural keyboard from the mid-’90s, usually with one big monitor. He also reveals what he’s got against llamas.

In creating the gnutella network without asking the Web giant that employed him, Frankel was trying to “enable people to do things they want to do,” rather than trying to […]

In the era before iTunes, Frankel created one of the first MP3 players. He says that Apple’s product has “dumbed down” music sharing software.

The most productive programmers have an ability to cut through to what’s really important, focus on that, and then know when they’ve gotten stuff right.

A conversation with the software developer and designer.

Companies need to get better at explaining the benefits of their sustainable products.

Most businesses end up recognizing that it’s easier to implement sustainability measures than to talk about them.

A conversation with the Executive Editor of Greenbiz.com.

One of the greatest things about being a scientist is that you’re continually surprised.

Certain ways of interpreting certain scriptures have been made obsolete by science—but that in no way makes religious faith or belief in God obsolete

Become a Nobel laureate means you end up “meeting people who are actually famous.”

It’s unlikely we’ll ever get all thermal motion to stop in an object. But we can get close enough in many experiments that “it’s basically absolute zero for all practical […]