Thanks to everyone who responded to last week’s request for thoughts on the Sherlock Holmes series that has taken up the blog for the last few weeks. I was surprised […]

The Syrian government has killed nearly 142 people, including at least 100 when the army stormed the protest city of Hama to crush dissent on the eve of Ramadan, political activists say.

Lack of rain in the hyper-arid regions of Somalia, Ethiopia, and northern Kenya is creating a humanitarian crisis as pastoral communities move in search of food and water. 

For all our talk of living in a globalized world, there is far less international exchange of people, goods and information than we would expect. How can we encourage globalization? 

With the deal reached Sunday night, the U.S. has a good chance of escaping the debt crisis with its credit intact, but the government may not be so lucky with its reputation.

Italy's (second) most famous volcano, Mt. Etna, has been quite busy while I've been off in California. Many of you have been following Etna on the webcams and leaving lots […]

With the nerve wracking threat of a default by America on its outstanding debt being broadcast on all the news channels practically twenty four hours a day, I am reading […]

Despite what we believe about our powers of introspection, the reality is that we know awfully little about what our conscious experience amounts to.

However you feel about the right way out of the U.S. government's struggles over its debt ceiling, I think we can all agree that the week past has not been […]

Individual reasoning can often lead to mistakes—Newton dedicated himself equally to alchemy—while reasoning in groups has been shown to produces better results. Why?

An older workforce is a new world for employers. An endless supply of young workers and the social construction of ‘retirement ’ kept the average worker age relatively young. That […]

Education moved from a bespoke craft to a more industrial approach. [...] Still, one-to-one tutoring is the learning method proven time and again to sharply improve a student’s measured performance. […]

The human brain is adept at recognizing similar items and placing them into categories. In a new study, M.I.T. neuroscientists have identified the brain activity that seems to control this skill. 

The bitter political divide over the budget deficit is the result of a trust deficit, says Jonah Lehrer. Trust is about trading favors, but faced with large budget cuts, there are none left to trade. 

For the first time, researchers have used brain signals to predict when a driver is about to slam on the brakes. The technology can shorten braking distance by four meters, preventing accidents.

This will be my last post on conservative education at the ISI Honors Program. A couple of people have written me (doubtless Canadians) complaining that I distorted the thought of the […]

45% of employers use social networks to research applicants. Whether you're a god of the Twitterverse or happier with a pen in hand, your career is now linked to the digital landscape. Will reputations be made or broken on the web?

In the global quest for superpower status, who represents you? Delphi Fellow Parag Khanna argues that in the future, we will all be diplomats.

By now, many of you have heard/read about the supposed eruption at Pisgah Crater in California. It was all over Youtube (you know, a great source for reliable scientific information) […]