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Are non-verbal behaviours reliable in the detection of people with mal-intent? Sharon Weinberger says researchers are increasingly dubious of passenger screening programs.
Emanuel Derman says that people will do what they feel they have to do despite their own reservations to the contrary—Wall Street will be greedy and the Congress will grandstand.
I was on Tybee Island earlier this week, sitting in my usual spot on the 17th street crosswalk just after dawn, when a young man carrying an ocean going kayak […]
After talking with thousands of ordinary Americans, R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. concludes they have arrived at a historic turning point—accepting that they must forego some entitlements.
Valuable climate change data collected every day by military satellites remains classified diminishing global health and security, writes Daniel Baker for the New York Times.
Instruction often assumes that students build knowledge sequentially, but what if it's much more haphazard than that? Science Magazine explains how video helps convey difficult ideas.
It's nuclear-armed and seems increasingly unstable yet we lack a contingency plan for a sudden collapse of the North Korean regime, warns The Economist.
David Jays speculates on why no play was shortlisted for a recent major literary award. Is theater too “brazenly collaborative and transient ” for the literary gatekeepers?
A recent Washington Post article by Jacqueline Trescott and Dan Zak made the bold, but hard to argue with statement that United States museums foil thieves much better than their […]
This could be an ideal time for creatures touched by the Gulf spill to pick up yoga and/or meditation. Here’s why. Consider the iguana. When iguanas get stressed out about […]
Different species have their different tricks for getting by. Human beings are smart, quick-moving and numerous. We're also pretty large, as mammals go. Sloths, on the other hand, take a […]
Today we take a computer's speed for granted, but it wasn't so long ago when it was normal to sit and wait for several minutes every time we booted up […]
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The future of cinema in the age of 3-D blockbusters and digital downloads.
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For his first "mainstream" film ("Rabbit Hole"), the indie director tried to make the kind of small, quiet art picture that defined the mainstream in the ‘70s.
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Take Greek drama, Shakespearean comedy, and Kabuki theater, stir in some punk rock, and you’ll get a genre audiences love.
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"An embarrassing kind of conformism" comes with full LGBT assimilation into the mainstream, says the actor and filmmaker. "Being queer is not enough," he says "Certainly it’s not interesting enough."
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Awkward fumblings, outrageous coincidences, and finding a place in the world as a gay man.
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Contending with discrimination and AIDS panic as part of the first generation of "out" gay people.
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The "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" creator ponders the "ongoing understanding and quest" of love.
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The creator and star of "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" discusses what the project meant to him personally, and how he feels about returning to it 10 years later.