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This is a polemic: Access to birth control isn’t really about my “health.” It’s not principally about the management of ovarian cysts or the regulation of periods. Birth control isn’t […]
Introduction to the 'Killing Ethically' series Killing can be sign of compassion or malice. This means when discussing killing, I will be using the word in a neutral way: it […]
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That Delphic oracle of style, Simon Doonan, author of the outrageously funny Gay Men Dont Get Fat, says fashion and politics don't mix in a democracy.
That Delphic oracle of style, Simon Doonan, author of the outrageously funny Gay Men Dont Get Fat, says fashion and politics don't mix in a democracy.
Action Ambulance provide ambulance and transportation services to a variety of clients in an industry that avoids aggressive sales techniques, but its CEO wants to increase its customer base...
Once you have an idea for a product or service that solves a particular problem in the marketplace, you need to calculate the value of that product to your customer, then assign a price.
The Baby Boomer generation that led America’s remarkable economic growth for so long is now a generation that is graying rapidly. America is already a nation of caregivers, with 1 […]
It has been a bad week for Mitt Romney. He did win both the Conservative Political Action Conference straw poll and the Maine Caucus over the weekend. But neither of […]
If there was a sanity test for leaders who wanted their own nuclear weapons, would these guys pass?
Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel, is calling upon Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney to denounce the Mormon tradition of proxy baptism. What the heck is a proxy baptism?
The point is that being tortured isn’t the point at all – it’s about transforming existential anxiety into clarity, energy, humor, and hope.
In the form of a spray can, a small Utah company may have revolutionized how data is transferred over long distances. Forget ugly antennae towers, that tree over there will do.
This space recently offered some thoughts about “The Ethics of Climate Change Denial”. The basic case was that denial which arises out of the innate subconscious urge we all […]
Filmmaker Shukree Hassan Tilghman wants to cancel Black History Month. “Isn’t segregation by month still segregation?” is a question Tilghman examines in his documentary More Than A Month that airs […]
Our BIG THINKING friend Robert de Neufville is right to notice public opinion trending in favor of same-sex marriage. And so it seems reasonable for him to predict that it […]
What do algae blooms have to do with South American genocides? Computer companies searching for patterns amongst unfathomable amounts of data are changing how we do science.
Here at Mind Matters, we aren't big fans of militant atheism, or any other doctrine that prefers to explain away other views, rather than engaging them. I'm convinced that rhetorical […]
Today marks the start of the annual conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, one of the world's great scientific meetings. Many of the panels held in Vancouver […]
While the president is "the ultimate authorizer of Armageddon," what if his mind "is deranged, disordered, even damagingly intoxicated?
To keep power use down, tomorrow's microchips will rely on light beams to transfer data rather than electricity. That's good for the US, which still has an advantage in chip manufacturing.