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Digital forces are threatening to weaken, or even destroy, the traditional basis, role and funding of the press. But what are the virtues it brings?
There seems no end in sight to Japan's current decline, as jobs are lost, pensions cut, companies move overseas and social cohesion disintegrates.
Supposedly, the proper use of statistics makes relying on scientific results a safe bet. But in practice, widespread misuse of statistical methods makes science more like a crapshoot.
Americans still venerate marriage enough to want to try it yet nearly 40% think marriage is obsolete. Time Magazine explains its latest survey and the future of the American family.
Astronomers have for the first time discovered a planet in the Milky Way that came from another galaxy. The planet has a mass of at least 1.25 Jupiters.
Nearly 1 million children work full time in Bolivia's tin mines, in cemeteries, on buses, or in the markets. It's a tough life, but at least they're unionized.
A new book tells the story on the "triumph of capitalism" in the U.S. in the remarkable 35 years after the Civil War when American economy exploded in size.
The US military has issued a warning that social networking sites could endanger the lives of troops in Iraq and Afghanistan because of new features that reveal the user's location.
Dire warnings about global warming can backfire if presented too negatively, making people less amenable to reducing their carbon footprint, new research shows.
Capitalism has solved the need to keep wages low and consumption high by bringing future consumption into the present by dramatic extensions of credit.
Over at the NY Times' Dot Earth, Andrew Revkin has a post titled "An Inconvenient Mind" gathering thoughts from social scientists Dan Kahan and Robert Bruille on the UC Berkeley […]
"The critical thing is to figure out a way to get the technology engine restarted," says the venture capitalist. "And we should have less government regulation to enable that."
In the age of social networking and digital communities, there's something to be said for analog art of appreciation – of people, of places, of music, of all the other […]
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Hollywood caricatures capitalism as a zero-sum game. But all of Facebook's stakeholders have done extraordinarily well—including Eduardo Saverin.
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Technological innovation requires risk and sacrifice, which may be very hard to do if you have an enormous debt burden to try to repay.
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In this Summer School for the Real World feature, PayPal founder Peter Thiel says people can get locked into rigid tracks too early, preventing them from developing their interests and […]
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California is still the best place for tech companies to do business. But colonies on offshore platforms might one day become our centers of innovation.
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A conversation with the venture capitalist.
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During the next 20 years, the plan for China and India is basically to catch up to the U.S.—to get 19th century plumbing and 20th century railroads. That is not […]
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There has been lots of innovation recently in areas without regulation—heavily regulated fields like transportation, health care, and energy have been much slower to progress.