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How far women decide to go in business will in part be determined by the structure of the American family and how we decide to allocate our resources.
Katrin Bennhold of the New York Times has a heartwarming piece for anyone planning a New Year's Eve hookup. According to Bennhold's friends, consenting to any sex with a dude […]
Pre-industrial societies with polygyny as the dominant marriage institution consume less alcohol than those with monogamy.
So my "True Grit" post got a lot of response (unfortunately not below) on Facebook and by email and all that--mostly critical. One particularly astute critic--Ken Masugi--accused me of being in […]
Russia’s president, Dmitry Medvedev, and his prime minister, Vladimir Putin, apparently cannot agree on which of them will be running for the Russian presidency in March 2012.
The now-prevalent pattern of flag-rank military officers going to work for defense contractors as soon as they retire is a form of corruption, says James Fallows at The Atlantic.
The U.S.’s failure under Barack Obama to impose peace between Israel and the Palestinians makes a new war likely, says Le Monde's Alain Gresh.
Harvard scientist Jeff Lichtman wants to build a full map of the mind by carving off slivers of a mouse brain and passing the portions through a powerful electron microscope.
The Valkyrie, slated to become the world's first nuclear powered bomber, was a plane decades ahead of its time, pushing aeronautical engineering beyond what had been thought possible.
The Economist has invited four career economists to predict what changes will take place in the global economy during the following year. Deficit reduction is one possibility.
What is wrong with Broadway? A record number of shows are closing, with producers millions in the hole. The answer is: nothing we didn’t already know.
Maybe age really is just a number. How young or old someone feels has a huge influence on their health and how other people view them—if you feel young, you are young.
The quintessentially British tradition of taking a year off between high school and university is becoming popular in the U.S. where teens seek to broaden their horizons.
Recycling doesn’t come for free. It costs millions to pickup, sort and process all those plastic bottles, aluminum cans and cardboard pizza boxes we discard.
Good brand marketing is about getting the right emotional response from your target audience. You can get people to buy a product in many ways, but to get them to […]
2010 was a great year for art publishing, with many presses producing high quality works not only in terms of reproducing great art, but also in publishing important thinkers on […]
“Wow, how did they do that?” We were watching Tron: The Legacyin 3-D, and our friend was marveling at how 61 year-old Jeff Bridges appeared as young as a man […]
What President Obama and my lazy news media don’t seem to remember, or don’t want to address today, is something Jeff Lurie said back when he hired Vick: "I needed […]
Do we pay top executives too little? That, as Tyler Cowen points out, is the question raised by a recent paper by Bang Dang Nguyen and Kaspar Meisner Nielsen. The […]
As the year draws to a close, it's time again to take a look back at some videos that really struck a chord with our audience this year. A glance […]