It’s cheaper to save people’s lives in poor countries than it is in rich countries. So how much is a life worth?

Don't count on it. 

Any biographer writing about a familiar subject faces the same towering problem—how do I make this person seem new and modern? When writing about an artist such as Norman Rockwell, […]

Archie Archambault, that's who! The philosophy graduate turned printer struck upon the concept of circular maps after moving to Portland. In Oregon's biggest city, he felt something that must have […]

"To be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others." -Nelson Mandela

The computer scientists and ranking enthusiasts Steven Skiena and Charles Ward used Google's Page-Rank algorithm to determine the most significant people of all time. 

Throughout history ideas about gender have always tended to drift back and forth into science and then back out into the culture.

Upon moving to Los Angeles two years ago last month, I was surprised by how few drivers use turn signals. For a city literally built around the car, it continually […]

The negative con­sequences of conducting relationships at arm's length, round­-the-clock, and simultaneously, and only with those who reinforce one's worldview. 

"What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning."-Werner Heisenberg

     You know those national debt counters, with the numbers that rapidly get bigger and bigger? Or those global population counters  that do the same thing? Well now comes a […]

Nitin Nohria: I don’t think what you do is you teach leadership, what you do is you help people become better learners from experience so that they can enhance their own leadership.  

When large organizations bring in creative people they often want the outputs or the products of creative people, but are intolerant of the way the creative people operate.

Falcon 9 made history in 2012 when the SpaceX rocket delivered Dragon into orbit for a rendezvous with the International Space Station. Yesterday, following two postponements, Falcon 9 launched its first commercial payload. 

The more scientists discover about our prehistoric ancestors, the further they seem to fall down Alice's Rabbit Hole. Things just get curiouser and curiouser.

So the excellent editor of The New Atlantis, maybe our best journal on technology and society, reflects on the HBO series Stay of Play.  It’s all about the parents finding too […]

Our understanding of neutrinos might help us solve one of the greatest questions of all time - why matter won out over antimatter, or why we are here. 

"I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom."-Thomas Carlyle (born on this date in 1795)

Sometimes the toughest shadow to escape is one you cast over yourself. When artist Art Spiegelman began publishing Maus in 1980 in chapter form in the indie comics magazine Raw, […]

“The last decade has been about sharing. The next decade will be about protecting.” - Dave Pell.