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Can local culture survive in a global community?

Have you thought about what it might be like for that other person?

Governments and cultural communities must cooperate.

Chiu sees cultural differences being played out in religious differences.

Chiu, on the cleansing of the Cultural Revolution.

You have to modify ideal behavior.

Chiu recalls growing up in Australia.

“The Bloodline Series” by Zhang Xiaogang.

Justice Stephen Breyer reflects on why he has taken the step of reading his dissenting opinions from the bench, which is not a common practice for a Supreme Court Justice.

The problem of keeping our dark side in check.

The need for a civilizing force.

Justice is about trying to create systems, rules, organizations, methods of cooperation that you see over time will tend to push societies towards what is better.

Justice Stephen Breyer on how the forces of reason are sweeping the globe.

It’s a mistake to say that there isn’t an independent judiciary in America. A chauffeur can still beat a President.

Breyer, on a dark year for the Court.

When deciding a case, Breyer says, you don’t know what will have consequences.

Playing linesman.

The Constitution creates institutions so people can decide things for themselves.

Breyer’s father had a different experience at Stanford.

Justice Breyer was disappointed with the Seattle decision.

A civic city.

George Church reveals the secrets to holistic physiology.

The gap between diagnosis and treatment.

Is the tide really rising?

Science has very definite faith components, and most religions don’t stick to faith.

Eliminating poverty would improve our species’s chance for survival.

We are a species that is well connected to other species; whether or not we evolve from them, we are certainly very closely related to them. Yet, we have things […]

The personal genomics revolution will fuel interest in science, Church says.

“Why would anybody want a computer?”

Church remembers watching the first DNA folding.