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“Consider two companies that are each given a billion dollars and ten months to close a sale,” Mohan Kompella says. “One does, the other doesn’t. What should the losing side […]
In story after story after story, one powerfully persistent meme of the 2012 American presidential election was that the GOP faced a significant “demographics problem” in which the growing numbers […]
To keep revenues coming in, some content sites are experimenting with the micropayment model, in which the majority of a chosen article is made available only after the reader pays a small fee.
Currently in use at five companies across the US and Europe: Mannequins equipped with a camera that sends data to a facial-recognition program.
Today I published an op-ed in the NY Times, arguing that the "Yemen model" approach to counterterrorism is deeply flawed. I also suggest a way forward for the Obama administration […]
I’ve received dozens of emails since my New York Times op-ed proposing a wealth tax came out on Monday. My goal with the piece was primarily to refocus the inequality […]
In the latest issue of New York Review of Books, Robert Worth reviews The Last Refuge along with Edmund Hull's book, High Value Target. Worth opens like this: Yemen is […]
Down in the dumps? You’d better watch your wallet, among other things.
What's the Big Idea? The famous "trolley problem" was a psychological experiment developed by Philippa Foot that involved a railway trolley headed toward five people who can't get out of […]
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Psychologist Kevin Dutton presents the classic psychological test known as "the trolley problem" with a variation. Take the test and measure you response on the psychopathic spectrum.
Starting today, New York City is replacing traditional pay phones with touchscreens that will provide weather data, safety alerts, coupons for local shops, and more.
Researchers used simulations to measure physicians against high school- and college-age gamers. In all tests involving robot assistance, the gamers' skills were equal or better.
In terms of their teens' online activities, interaction with strangers still ranks (just barely) as the top concern, according to a new Pew Center/Harvard report.
In a discussion of the five major trends that will change the world over the next 25 years, star architect Daniel Libeskind recently told Conde Nast that the long-term trend toward urbanization will help […]
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Henry Rollins says "let’s make college tuition either free or really low and if you have a country full of whip-crack smart people you have a country the rest of […]
Henry Rollins says that education has always been, and will need to continue to be, the main ingredient in shaping our future.
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Tim Ferriss describes how you can learn lifelong skills, and along the way fundamentally change the way you think about food, in four hours.
Desperate to reduce the amount of unsold housing stock, Spain has announced a proposal to offer residency permits to foreign buyers.
The Science Channel will re-run all five seasons of the sci-fi cult drama Fringe beginning tonight at 8pm. The two-hour pilot will air along with the first episode, followed by daylong […]
Despite the fact that homosexuality is still criminalized in many countries, recent active and proposed legislation in a number of countries suggests a rapidly growing trend.