"Is the purpose of public education to nurse students or to teach them?" asks Brian Crosby, a twenty-year veteran high school English teacher and the founder of the American Education […]

More than 50 years after the publication of CP Snow's seminal Two Cultures, interdisciplinary partnerships between science and other academic "cultures" are being urged once again. Today, the focus is […]

A new study of birds concludes that parents get more help when they are sexually faithful to each other and "leaves little doubt that promiscuity corrupts social life in birds."

London: Westminster sources claim that the former leader of the Liberal Democrats, Charles Kennedy, has been discussing defecting to the Labour Party, with four or five Liberal Democrat colleagues. The […]

In the Atlantic Wire series looking at how people stay on top of the news without surrendering to its chaos, Wired magazine editor-in-chief Chris Anderson shares his tips.

Facebook risks an inevitable privacy backlash with the launch of its feature sharing information on the location of users with their online friends, says Jemima Kiss.

The prolific and admired English literary critic Frank Kermode, 90, was by his own admission a failed novelist and playwright who "stumbled into academic life", writes T. Rees Shapiro.

In its editorial, Nature says WHO deserves praise for its (albeit imperfect) handling of the "potentially disastrous" H1N1 influenza pandemic threat.

Frank Thadeusz looks at whether the lack of copyright law — and resulting wider dissemination of scientific discoveries — laid the foundation for Germany's industrial might.rn

Much of excellent teaching involves intangibles but if data can show that some teachers are far better than others, the public should know, argues Op-Ed editor Sue Horton.

Mikhail Lyubansky doesn't condone crime but feels compassion for those who rape or kill. He says being kind to the cruel does not imply cruelty for those deserving kindness.

Europe and North America may underestimate or trivialise its significance, but the emergence of an independent Latin America is helping reshape the global order.

The 21st century will not be dominated by America or China, instead it will be built on cities rather than states, predicts Parag Khanna, author of "How to Run the World".

Promiscuity is an interesting subject. There was a time, in the United States at least, when there was a pronounced double-standard about "sleeping around": women who had many sex partners […]

When Sting sang “Young teacher/the subject/of school-girl fantasy,” it may well have been that he was thinking about an English teacher in a certain place and time, having been one […]

On the road from Korea’s world-class Incheon airport, across the spectacular eight-mile long humpback bridge to the landmark new Songdo International Business District development, we encountered a heavy fog that reminded […]

At NPR today, writer Mia Mask argues that Eat, Pray, Love follows on the heels of Sex and the City as Hollywood's latest return to Orientalism. Coined by the writer […]

Felicia says it was easier to tell his parents he was gay than to tell them he would be on a show called "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy."

Felicia has had enough of the "Real Housewives."