So Paul LeBlanc, president of Southern New Hampshire University, graciously and thoughtfully responded in the thread to my post complaining about his disruptive understanding of education that reduced to the “traditional” college […]

One of the unfinished pieces of business from the Cold War is the question of the unification of the Korean Peninsula.

"The nest of wickedness is ablaze," reads the caption in a newly released video from North Korea's official website, Uriminzokkiri. The video, which features a chilling misappropriation of "We Are the […]

What was first, the chicken or the map? That question is perhaps as unanswerable as the one featuring hen vs. egg [1]. Not that it matters. Stare long enough at […]

“Humbug,” harrumphed Minimalist/Conceptual artist Carl Andre recently in response to a question about Conceptualism in art today. “I think it is humbug myself,” Andre announced, channeling his inner Ebeneezer. “That […]

A study shows that explicit content is disturbingly easy for young people to access via the site's Recommended Videos panel.

Did you see Life of Pi or Cloud Atlas?  How about Prometheus or Avatar? Have you picked up a bestseller by Deepak Chopra or Eckhart Tolle? Do you ever leaf […]

The 21st century requires a new kind of learner—not someone who can simply churn out answers by rote, but a student who can think expansively and solve problems resourcefully.

At least 20 cities have canceled festivities in the wake of last month's deadly nightclub fire, but most others are expected to continue with the celebrations despite the country's ongoing self-reflection about the tragedy.

The state-owned railway company overrode the wishes of its all-male engine drivers' union in order to grow the numbers.

“The Super Bowl shows what million-dollar players and coaches are truly made of when the stakes matter most,” says leadership coach Stephen Miles, founder and CEO of The Miles Group. “The Ravens-49ers […]

Nothing is a physical concept, because it’s the absence of something. "What we’ve learned over the last hundred years," Lawrence Krauss says, "is that nothing is much more complicated than we would’ve imagined otherwise."

The majority of academic economists actually agree on plenty of topics of huge importance to the public and private sectors.

         Americans have always disagreed, about a lot. Somehow though, we’ve managed to get along with each other while we do. Why, then, has disagreeing become so nasty, so fierce, […]

Activist groups and the government are working to help rectify a housing shortage caused by jumps in both unemployment and property costs.

The law, which introduced severe restrictions, went into effect almost two years after a school shooting left 16 primary school students dead.

Recall Anthony Comstock (1844-1915), America’s “archprude” and upholder of Victorian morality. Comstock devoted his life to denouncing art he deemed "obscene, lewd or indecent." In response to a New York […]

A bionic man named Rex, currently on display at London's Science Museum, is showing how close technology has gotten to imitating natural human systems and even improving on them. 

Social scientists have recognized that income over a certain threshold fails to increase the amount of the happiness the earner experiences, but spending on others may return more happiness. 

Chronically nice people run the risk of burning themselves out and isolating the group of people they seek to help in the first place. Learning to say "no" is an important skill, say sociologists.