Quick update to catch us up a little on the week - and what better way to do that than to use the Smithsonian Institute/USGS Global Volcanism Program Weekly Volcanic […]

Looking to explain a new leadership model he saw gaining traction, organizational behavior expert Paul Lawrence found inspiration and answers in Darwin's The Descent of Man.

What this NYC Fire chief learned from his experience at the World Trade Center on 9/11, how it has affected his command style and the importance of the five Cs.

With the fashion industry emerging as one of the driving forces of innovation within the Internet world, it could have an important impact on the number of women who explore […]

Just a few weeks after September 11, 2001, the owner of a vacant storefront on Prince Street in Soho taped a picture of the lost World Trade Center in the […]

--Guest post by Jan Lauren Boyles, American University doctoral student. “The motion passes, 5-4.” With that statement earlier this year, members of the University of Colorado Board of Regents voted to close its […]

On September 11, 2001, Americans were challenged, we were assaulted, we were able to turn to each other and ask for help. And that "is one of the greatest testaments to what it means to be an American."

The fact that we were able to do that and we were able to come together is one of the greatest testaments to what it means to be an American.

In the field and in the lab, Psychologist Dan Ariely finds that people want big challenges, some autonomy in pursuing them, a bit of healthy competition, and a sense of completion.

Psychology and Neuroscience agree that tests themselves can be a valuable teaching tool, when they're brief, they're frequent, and they offer students immediate feedback.   

For Strauss Zelnick, the tablet computer represents a kind of Singularity - a convergence of media and productivity into a single, highly portable, optimally viewable platform.

1. So my apologies for just not getting the Hitchens post yesterday done properly.  It was sloppy, the link magically disappeared, I somehow managed to post it twice, and I […]

Strauss Zelnick, CEO of Take-Two Interactive, views tablet computing as a media revolution.

At the time of his arrest by the FBI in 1995, Kevin Mitnick was the most wanted hacker in America. Today Kevin continues his hacking adventures legally, as a computer security expert.

Today, north of the border, in one of my favorite Canadian cities, there is a book launch for Michelle Shephard's new book, Decade of Fear: Reporting from Terrorism's Grey Zone. […]

Entrepreneur and virtuoso exam-taker Shawn O'Connor explains how to unleash your brain's inner genius and conquer any test.    

The Gates Foundation has made a new foray into the contentious field of GMO crops. This time it's a bid to develop virus-resistant cassava varieties for Africa.

IBM envisages tomorrow's computer as a big sandwich of silicon chips. It's teaming up with 3M to develop a special glue that would make the evolutionary leap in computing possible.

This semester I am teaching a doctoral seminar on the important questions and trends related to media, technology and democracy. In this post, I introduce several major topics and provide […]

The GOP debate was last night was terrible. Too many participants, too much time for everyone to crank up their stump speech answers, too little heat on follow up questions, […]