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If you watch The Daily Show, you wouldn’t be surprised to learn that host Jon Stewart’s father was a physicist. The popular program, along with its partner in satire The […]
"Science validates the notion that people with a strong social network live longer. It's not yet clear if the benefits apply to those who turn to the Internet for friendship."
"Just a few small changes in the social behaviors of even solitary animals may set in motion an evolutionary cascade ending in massive, globe-spanning migrations."
The Boston Globe says more must be done to ferret out conflicts of interest in peer-reviewed journals, which are a key way doctors keep informed of cutting-edge research.
"Online video radically changes the reach and speed of the improvement cycle. Things like dance, snowboarding and TED talks keep getting better, and faster..."
"Gaga's entire persona seems to question what's expected of women." 'Lady' with suggestions of gentility, sweetness...'Gaga' with intimations of infantility, madness...
A mobile-web advertising company is facing a proposed class action over its use of an HTML5 'trick' to track iPhone and iPad users across a number of websites.
"For sound mental health, the fundamental question is not whether a thought is negative or positive, but whether it is accurate."
The German government is banking on help from imams educated at German universities to improve the integration and "success" of its young Muslims.
Is piracy an enemy or a necessary part of business in a digital world? This Swedish video game developer sees it as the latter and even a benefit in terms of marketing.
How would a medical audience respond to a lecture that was completely devoid of content, yet delivered with authority by a convincing phony? Overwhelmingly positively...
Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker's research looks at how language exists in our minds, and how it informs the way we create social relationships.
Tod Machover, who has been called America's most wired composer, is poised to transform your theater experience forever. His new opera "Death and the Powers," will be unveiled on September […]
According to a recent press release: NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, will complete the exploration phase of its mission on Sept. 16, after a number of successes that transformed […]
Every week, it seems, we get more bad news about the economy. Today the Census Bureau reported that the median household income in the U.S. fell several hundred dollars in […]
If you are not a regular viewer of The Daily Show or The Colbert Report, you might be surprised by results from Pew's latest news audience report. In the national […]
Great post by Thomas MacAulay Millar on the case of "FV," a teenage runaway who was allegedly tortured, pimped, and nearly killed by a middle aged man who took her […]