A whistleblower who exposed the torture of protestors in Iranian jails has died after being poisoned by a delivery salad laced with blood pressure medication, fuelling fears that he was murdered.

“Very refreshing! DOW Chemical Pesticide Water! Free samples! Very refreshing!” Volunteers with non-profit Students for Bhopal gathered yesterday at the entrance to New York’s Union Square Whole Foods Market to […]

While others struggle to combat the aging process, Dr. Leonard Guarente, director of MIT's Institute on Aging, seeks to understand it. A forty-year veteran of the university, he is best-known […]

Google has announced that it will work to help companies, such as news producers like Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, to limit the access that general readers and data aggregators such […]

Shortly after President Obama finished his speech outlining his plan to bring the war in Afghanistan to a successful conclusion, bloggers have rushed to remind us that Afghanistan is "the […]

The former CEO of Mexico City’s Urban Development Corporation feels a tremendous energy in modern New York. But an over-reliance on the financial industry, he warns, will leave it vulnerable […]

What keeps Excel Venture Management’s Juan Enriquez awake at night? Sheer excitement about our new golden age of discovery.

Will the U.S. confront new secession movements in the 21st century? "Untied States of America" author Juan Enriquez hopes not—and offers suggestions as to how his book’s worst-case scenario can […]

Venture capitalist Juan Enriquez analyzes the divergent fates of China and Latin America and what lessons they hold for the rest of the world.

Like any major new technology, genomics carries the potential for major catastrophe. What are the risks and how can they be contained?

It’s not your imagination: information really is bombarding us in greater and greater quantities. As Juan Enriquez explains, the actual statistics are even more outrageous than you’d think.

Biotechonomy CEO Juan Enriquez explains why genomics is a kind of language—and why it will drive the 21st-century economy.

From lab-grown human ears to fuel made out of algae, the ability to write "life code" will bring extraordinary changes to our economy—and our lives.

A conversation with the Biotechonomy CEO and Managing Director of Excel Venture Management.

I've always been fascinated by the Pedestrian Do-Si-Do, that dance where you dodge to your left on the sidewalk to avoid colliding with a person walking toward you, and she […]

For the classical pianist, the creative process is a continuous mingling of conscious and unconscious experience, ranging from abstract paintings to the moment of death.

Alcohol, drugs and pathology blur the boundaries between a various forms of experience, and as such are the perfect fuel for the artist.

Preparing for a piano concert is a strange process. But, as the musician explains, crafting an incredible experience always is.

As the classical pianist explains, the beginnings of a career in music are often formed during youth learning how to "live in music."

There is nothing more tragic in a life, believes the classical pianist, than not meeting the potential of one’s talents. To stave off this tragedy, he explains, one must learn […]