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The startup Kiip offers a relatively simple but radical step forward in mobile advertising: why not attach brand interactions to moments of achievement/greatness where we feel elated—namely during video gameplay?
Satellite TV and social media have been front and center recently for two reasons: their role in the Mideast upheavals rolling across the region, and debates over whether social media […]
Our hyper efficient, always on modern lives don’t often account very well for those who are sick and shut in. Last week, though, I found myself going back to my […]
We didn’t mind Maureen Dowd’s dismantling of (whatever remains of) the mythologizing of Dylan as a hero for/of protest. There was a moment in time when Dylan was hero for […]
Reporting from last weekend's Shakespeare Association of America conference in Bellevue, Washington, Bernadette Meyers brings us the top five ideas.
At the end of last week, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation officially apologised for hacking into the phones of politicians and celebrities. In doing so the company judged that it was […]
If we all became gamers, there would be more "epic wins" in the real world, says video game designer Jane McGonigal during her 2010 TED talk.
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If you ask conservative and liberal judges whether George W. Bush is a war criminal for invading Iraq, you are unlikely to find agreement. But ask them about Henry V, […]
The Beatles take on the roles of the "rude mechanicals," performing the Pyramus and Thisbee scene from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" in 1964.
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The global risk expert explains how the Saudi royal family is like the Vatican.
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Mubarak is gone, but the military is still there and will remain the most powerful player in that country for a long time.
The more unwilling Binyamin Netanyahu is to make a leap of history, the more dangerous it’s going to get.
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While technology may not have sparked the fire in the Middle East, it has helped people pressure their governments to reform.
I've got a brief update about the activity at Taal in the Philippines to start us off: The news of a potential eruption at Taal continues - and the latest […]
The other day I participated in a bloggingheads discussion of Yemen with Charles Schmitz of Towson University. You can view our conversation here. And to tide you over until the […]
Not unlike the generation that survived the Great Depression and spent the rest of their lives pinching pennies, some middle-class Americans are developing a lasting sense of thrift.
With oil now over $112 per barrel, is it time to panic? While the American psyche is disproportionately influenced by oil prices, our economy is suited to weather the current storm.
Though terms of a "road map" to peace in Libya are unclear, the African Union says Gaddafi has accepted conditions for a ceasefire between Libyan rebels and government troops.
While China's rise as a global power is often a foregone conclusion, it faces crucial challenges in the years ahead: a real estate bubble, a transitioning economy and political unrest.
China's rising credit agency Dagong Global has downgraded the credit rating of the U.S., Britain and Germany while raising China's. Is power in the global financial network in flux?