The blistering opinion rendered by Judge Jed Rakoff in the matter of the S.E.C. v. Citigroup Global Markets got very little attention yesterday in the midst of all the hoopla […]

If a public stock offering went ahead, some say Facebook would use the cash for more acquisitions and refine or work on new projects, such as a Facebook phone or netbook.

Amid growing concerns about the psychological impact of widespread digital 'enhancement' of photos comes a new tool to reveal how much fashion and beauty pics have been altered.

Are today's climate change deniers waging a war on science? A new book by James Lawrence Powell spills the dirt on the new war on science.

--Guest by Audrey Payne, American University graduate student. It seems like there are so many problems discussed in the media every day- public health, the environment, the economy, political protests…. […]

Responding to privacy concerns, the European Commission plans to crackdown on Facebook allowing users' most personal information to be used to create bespoke advertising.

If your product doesn’t need to be touched or demonstrated and is relatively small, your retail footprint is going to shrink. Bad news for retail clerks but exciting for entrepreneurs. because it could become easier to sell products in places that you couldn’t previously.Retail is going to shrink and proliferate. 

We've had the industrial revolution, and now we're amid the data revolution. 'Big data' is a tectonic shift that will continue to affect many things we do for decades to come.

One of the odder cultural moments of the late 1970s that still sticks with me is the cinematic tour de force titled The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh, the improbably story […]

Harvard Professor Lisa New describes how Nathaniel Hawthorne's The House of Seven Gables speaks to classic American responses to economic crisis.

Mapping the many paths from fully bearded to clean-shaven

In his Floating University lecture, Dr. Jeffrey Brenzel shows how our intellectual history is the story of rediscovering old ideas, and how these ideas will help you address permanent aspects of the human condition.

In this selection from his Floating University lecture, Dr. Jeffrey Brenzel presents five takeaways from reading the classics.

A couple of years ago Steven Landsburg controversially argued that if we want STI rates to fall then what is needed is more people participating in casual sex.  As counter-intuitive […]

How could science fiction get it all so wrong? Big Think posed this question to Jim Kakalios, Professor of Physics at the University of Minnesota in a previous post. In […]

In this amazing video, aerial acrobat and dare devil Yves Rossy jumps from a helicopter and flies over the Swiss Alps using a jet pack. Rossy then joins two jets […]

After decades of dictatorship, the people of Egypt, the Arab world's most populous state, have gone to the polls sharply polarized and confused over the nation’s direction.

Could the European Central Bank help avert a Euro meltdown if it bought up the bonds of ailing euro-zone countries on a bigger scale, thereby easing fears of their default?

Alberta, Canada is widely recognized as having one of the best schooling systems in the world. A recent article in Alberta Views highlighted the differences between its system and America's, […]

Governor Brownback’s communications director, Sherriene Jones-Sontag, has taken a 100% certified molehill—an indecorous tweet from a bored school kid who happened to be in an audience in front of the […]