Every time I see a row of seaside lampposts, each with a single seagull perched on it, I wonder: Do those birds think we built the highway system for them? […]

I've been trying to update on the evolving situation at Merapi all day, but the news is just too fast and too tragic to keep up. I'll try to keep updating […]

In the final guest post on Colorado’s defeated Amendment 62, a "personhood" initiative that would have given full legal rights to fertilized human eggs, Trina Stout examines the effect of […]

The Tea Party—with its flamboyant supporters and over-the-top rhetoric—makes good copy. It make such good copy that it sometimes gets more attention than its actual influence warrants. But give credit […]

Ocean pollution has been a topic of increasing concern lately and its devastating aftermath for marine life has been grimly documented. To raise awareness about the issue, Electrolux has introduced […]

Christine Quinn hates it when people say "it is what is." As a kid she read every biography in her school library about a political leader or famous woman. "The […]

A conversation with the feminist activist.

Prostitution is not empowering for women; it is a symptom of addiction to masculinity and need for domination. "We need to eroticize equality," says the noted feminist.

People start to talk about post-racist, post-feminist," says Steinem. "What does that mean? We’re clearly not 'post' either.

It’s not helpful to talk about men and women as if they were fixed and binary entities, says the celebrated feminist. "The purpose of feminism is ... to understand that […]

Feminism has proven that women can do men’s jobs, but it hasn’t yet proven that men can do women’s jobs—like nurturing a child. This is both a libel to men […]

Consumers today are knowingly and unknowingly providing businesses with more data than they've ever been capable of collecting before. The analysis of this information could have profound implications for business.

There isn't really such thing as a "masculine" and a "feminine," says feminist icon Gloria Steinem. Because we've been so deeply propagandized with the notions about what it means to […]

One of the biggest problems I find in the coverage of geologic events in the media is the relationship between cause and effect. Many times the confusion of what factors […]

The new eruptive phase at Merapi appears to be getting worse - and from the sound of it, the volcanologists at the Centre for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation aren't sure what […]

Forbes' Quentin Hardy says the U.S. economy is on track to collapse in twelve years based on analyses of the diminishing rate of returns from private assets.

"What we divulge might seem contradictory or bizarre because the line we refuse to cross is so deeply personal." Jessa Crispin says privacy concerns are relative.

As the midterm's drubbing ends, Barack Obama needs to embrace the theatrics of the presidency, however cheesy that may seem to him, says Tina Brown.

Professor of physics at Drexel University, Dave Goldberg analyzes wormholes and cosmic strings to determine if time travel might be an achievable goal.

Can constitutional democracies generate the motivational resources that nourish them and make them durable? The Immanent Frame on the new writings of Jürgen Habermas.