The continent would be ruled by ten neat little empires. 

The stories intertwine on the point of personality: is Mark Zuckerberg a genius? Is Julian Assange? At what point does (at least in Aaron Sorkin’s vision of the Facebook founder, […]

He's known as the "Berlin patient," and he seems to be the first man to beat HIV. 

The first effective anti-retroviral treatment for HIV, Azidothymidine (AZT), was approved for treatment in 1987. But HIV is highly prone to mutations and thus likely to develop drug resistance. It […]

The disease seems to develop as beta amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tau tangles gather inside the brain to clog synapses and nerve cells—but what is its root cause?

On the issue of climate change, among the most important, yet frequently overlooked segments of the public are farmers living in the agricultural Midwest and across major agricultural districts of […]

Desperate times call for desperate measures. But what happens when desperate times strike cultural institutions such as museums? The International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art (aka, Cimam) […]

Quick note as I almost forgot to post last week's Smithsonian/USGS Global Volcanism Program's Weekly Volcanic Activity Report. Busy week all around for volcanoes - we've seen activity at Bromo, […]

Democracy is a great concept, but its micro-implementations in matters as petty and mundane as agreeing with coworkers on what music to stream at the office can be a messy […]

The waiting rooms of Cornell Weil, Columbia University and New York University fertility clinics have up to forty women waiting to see specialists on any given day. Many of these […]

"A lot of people get upset at young people," says Walter Mosley, "They say, 'Young people aren’t living up to their potential. Young people are interested in things which are […]

The novelist explains that high expectations and a desire for fame are increasingly becoming distractions for young people today.

Lots of news here on the last Monday of November! Indonesia: Bromo in the Tengger Caldera continues to look like its ramping to a new eruptive cycle. There have been […]

"I have to remember that young people are living in this world today and I have to be advised by them as they are advised by me," says Mosley.

"There is no painter who painted only one painting and that was a masterpiece," says Mosley. But that doesn’t mean you can write a lot of bad books and still […]

Nothing, according to Mosley. He wakes up early every day so he can write before most people even read their morning paper.

"My job is writing for people to enjoy and then writing about a broader and a deeper world," says Mosley. Too many aspiring writers forget about the first half of […]

Mosley thinks his background as a programmer is evident in his writing: "Often when I write about computer programmers I’ll write about the way that they see the world and […]

The author writes 1000 words a day. The next day he edits the prior day’s 1000 words and writes 1000 more. A dedicated schedule, he says, is what gets stories […]