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Thomas Jefferson's metaphor of "a wall between church and state" remains as sturdy and impenetrable as ever, even as it is dangerously ignored.
Edward Snowden's illegal disclosure of NSA surveillance techniques will loom over upcoming trade negotiations between the US and EU called the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).
I think we all need a fear toolkit that helps us navigate the fear in our lives.
The world has a hole in it that is shaped just like you and it needs your voice to fill that hole.
In addition to making "offensive comments" illegal, a recently-approved electronic crimes bill outlaws stalking, identity theft and the distribution of child pornography, among other activities.
Women are like tourists in a world that is not quite built to be aligned with how they are by nature or how they’ve been socialized by nurture.
The top 200 chief executives at America's largest public companies received an average pay raise of 16 percent for fiscal year 2012. Their companies' returns rose by an average of 19 percent.
“It’s so clean and bland – I’m home!” –Marge Simpson, on arriving in Canada
Ramez Naam looks at the power of innovation to overcome natural resource and environmental challenges.
One of the challenges that students have today, which is not a lot different than what I faced, is the problem of budgets being cut in education. I grew up […]
Forget about gift shop miniatures: A San Diego man is taking pictures of the world’s great sculptures and converting them into files that he is offering for free to anyone with a 3D printer.
The children will come and go as they please, as long as they are present during the core period between 10:30 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. The building will only be closed for Christmas and New Year's.
I think experimentation is a really important part of the lifecycle of a company both strategically and from an innovative point of view.
The challenge for companies and for people is to get focused, ruthlessly focused. And part of doing that is the pruning and deselecting moldy ideas.
"Any couple who choose to consummate their sexual cravings, then that act becomes a total commitment with adherence to all consequences that may follow,” said the Court's ruling.
You can get easily distracted by the next thing, the next thing, the next thing.
Ron Miller's illustrations deal with the consequences of man's actions as well as the kind of destruction that might be in store for our planet long after humans, and all life on Earth, is gone.
The image above shows the "burn scar" left from the Dolce fire that has devastated the area around Prescott, Arizona.
At the turn of the century when the internet first began to blow up, a wonderful technology emerged called Rich Site Summary, now more commonly known as Really Simple Syndication […]