Activity at the Philippine caldera Taal continues to increase. The latest update on Taal from PHIVOLCS reports 21 earthquakes under the volcano in the 24 hours between April 17-18, meaning […]

There's been a violent backlash on Greece's streets over the country's austerity package and $157b bailout. Angry Greeks are pressing for the country to default on its debt.

Aung San Suu Kyi: "Human beings want to be free and however long they may agree to stay locked up, to stay oppressed, there will come a time when they say 'That's it.'"

Finnish voters have ousted a pro-bailout government and hung a question mark over Europe’s plans to rescue Portugal and other debt-ridden economies.

A leaked report says the Sri Lankan government shelled hospitals, fired on civilians in no-fire zones and attacked the U.N. and Red Cross in the last days of civil war two years ago.

The BRICS countries are bypassing Europe as they build what will become the shortest and fastest internet route between the Americas, Africa and India and China.

While the British Navy may have secured military victory for the British Empire, Shakespeare's words secured the peace.

I always chuckle at the old joke about the dyslexic atheist holding up a sign saying, “There is no Dog!” Whenever talk turns to revelations and apocalypses, we all seem […]

The dollar is still the dominant reserve currency, but for how long? The IMF has recently forecast that China's economy will overtake that of the U.S. in 2016. How will […]

The English language is a key factor in retaining America’s competitive advantage in the world – like a linguistic reserve currency. But as more Indian and Chinese people learn English, […]

This map, distributed in France in the last year of the First World War, uses a trope common to a lot of cartographic propaganda: the enemy as an octopus, a […]

Just so you don't think I've fallen off the face of the Earth ... I have been at the 2011 Keck Geology Symposium for Undergraduate Research at Union College for […]

Reflections on Rapture, Ecstasy, and Technology BY JASON SILVA "All things physical are information-theoretic in origin, and this is a participatory universe.". - John Archibald Wheeler Sober, immersive reading is […]

Two decades after creating the World Wide Web, in a speech at an MIT symposium, Tim Berners-Lee said that "access to the web is now a human right". Probably not many […]

The Strange Death of Radical Journalism  And so to another inconvenient truth that should trouble anyone interested in the clash of ideas, real passion in journalism, polemic and a radicalism […]

Looking at the language of critical response to the novel, there are parallels. This is not to say that David Foster Wallace cared for Hamlet. But he seemed to care […]

A (Gallup) study shows that only 35% of our independents now approve of the work our president is doing. There are a variety of reasons for that.  But here's the one that […]

We spend our lives inside buildings, our thoughts shaped by their walls. How do different spaces influence cognition? Is there an ideal kind of architectural structure for different kinds of thinking?

Reprogrammed stem cells from schizophrenia patients have helped researchers determine that fewer connections are made between the neurons of a schizophrenic compared to those of healthy individuals.

New evidence of how antidepressant drugs help to boost brain cell formation could lead to better treatments for depression, a disease which inhibits the production of neurons in the hippocampus.