How much infrastructure and training do children need to use a laptop or a tablet? Do they need, for example, schools and teachers? Do they need to have seen computers […]

Samasource founder Leila Janah has started an Indiegogo campaign to fund the development of Samahope, a site described as a kind of "Kiva for surgery."

Imagine you are a scientist who has just received the latest issue of the most important journal in your field. As you look through the papers published there, you'll probably […]

A FinderCodes kit contains "smart tags" that, when scanned, put the finder in touch with the owner.

I’ve been contemplating the notion of a graduated return to normalcy for about a year. A few days from election, with Obama’s chances having dimmed considerably, would seem to be […]

For those of you who live in New York, I would like to invite you all to come out to the Overseas Press Club in Manhattan on Monday, November 12 […]

Update 11/4: A few hours after I published this post, Mayor Bloomberg decided to cancel the marathon for the reason I develop below.  See my analysis of Bloomberg's surprising last-minute […]

The number of courses have jumped over 30 percent in the last four years, indicating a growing commitment on the part of two-year schools towards encouraging a global mindset.

All other things being equal, Americans tend to choose foreign-made items of clothing because they believe they're more affordable than identical domestic-made versions.

A new study shows that young people who regularly go to a place of worship are more likely to graduate high school and go on to college.

In a letter responding to Anthony M. Amore’s editorial “No ‘Thomas Crown Affair’” in The New York Times about the recent robbery at the Kunsthal Museum in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, […]

In my earlier post about whether to vote for third parties, there were some commenters who asserted that there's no good reason to vote at all. Since we're now right […]

Hurricane Sandy hit Waq al-waq hard - although, mercifully, not nearly as hard as many who are still suffering - knocking out power and forcing us to become one of […]

The first time I listened to Pinkerton, Weezer’s second studio album, I hated it. And so did almost everyone else. Rolling Stone readers ranked it as the third worst album […]

Some months ago, I ended up discussing the death penalty with some friends. I uttered what I thought was a fairly uncontroversial statement – especially among this group of smarter, […]

Mark Ruffalo, Co-founder of Water Defense, adresses The Nantucket Project along with Mark Jacobson, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University and Marco Krapels, co-chairman of Rabobank's corporate […]

As I travel around and talk about the neuroscience of orgasm, there is one question I am consistently asked--usually by a particularly curious and outgoing person of the male persuasion:  […]

For infants and the elderly, the use of standard medical tape can cause scarring and irritation to the skin. A team of researchers have created a safer version.

A California team is working on an app that will store an encrypted digitized copy of your genome. As expected, the technology comes with a host of privacy concerns.

Communities that sign up with Recovers receive a personalized site that allows them to coordinate relief efforts more efficiently. The platform's latest challenge: Manhattan's Lower East Side.