It's an attempt to encourage marriage -- and the legal and financial benefits that come with it -- in a country where cohabitation has old cultural roots.

According to a research firm, Chinese could be consuming 5 million extra metric tons' worth of packaged food by 2015. The reasons mirror America's past; the potential consequences mirror America's present and future.

We are at a point when we’re completely rethinking disease. 

The reason Socrates banished laughter or comedy from the poetry of the just city is that comedians, at their best, remind us of what we all know: There’s an inexpressible […]

Suppose you knew that Earth and all its inhabitants would be destroyed 30 days after your death in a collision with a giant asteroid. How would this knowledge affect you?

Scientists are using brain scan technology to hone individuals' ability to control the direction and precision of their own thoughts.

Planet Earth will be able to sustain life for another 1.75 billion years, after which point the surface will become too hot to support liquid water.

Imagining a bumblebee with a bull's head is a seemingly effortless task, but actually requires the brain to construct an entirely new and unreal image.

According to recent neurological insight, the muse is more apt to reward long periods of sustained concentration than intermittent fits of vision.

The art market is a market where commodification is the purpose even at the level of museums which effectively exist by virtue of the generosity of patrons. 

Companies too much believe that secrets are their secret sauce.

The first serious discussion of a legal right to privacy in the United States didn’t come until the year 1890 and that was because of the invention of a technology and that technology was the Kodak camera. 

The key to a healthy information diet is understanding that this stuff is about your health, not about productivity or politics or fact-checking.

An information diet has to be about personal responsibility. 

An information diet has to be about personal responsibility. 

Careers. Paychecks. Horrible bosses. If you want a roof over your head, or to make a lasting and meaningful contribution to the world, then work will consume your life. Doesn’t […]

Research shows that a good night's sleep—seven hours or more—results in better and more prolonged exercise sessions later that day.

Information technology will change health care in ways similar to how Amazon changed the landscape of the retail industry.

More than anything else, eating an excessive number of calories is what makes people fat.

Ironically, what are called "compatibility genes" give each person their individuality.