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With the world economy fighting its way off the ropes, is China capable of supporting global commerce by developing an economic juggernaut like Apple or Ikea?
On Tuesday evening, the television news network Al Jazeera America will enter the homes of nearly half of this country's 100 million cable subscribers.
Doomsday predictions about a world with too many mouths to feed, once predicted to reach 11 billion by 2050, are being drastically reevaluated.
The Finnish system spends about one-quarter less money per pupil than the American system, yet student achievement remains high.
While this summer has yielded mostly positive economic news, the engines of recovery in Europe, Japan, and China, may inevitably lose steam.
Twenty years ago, I predicted that when the exponential and predictable progress of processing power, storage, and bandwidth—what I called the three digital accelerators—reached the levels we would have by […]
On June 19, the world's first automatic magazine newsstand reached the Swedish consumers. Meganews Magazines is up and running in Stockholm, hoping to change the modern media landscape. The newsstand kiosk […]
Earlier this month, Lu Ann Ballew, a judge in Tennessee, decided that seven-month-old Messiah Deshawn Martin must lose his first name. Her reasoning is inspiring condemnation from across the religious […]
Seventy-five years ago, The Museum of Modern Art staged their first exhibition devoted to the work of a single photographer—Walker Evans: American Photographer. That show brought together many of Walker […]
Within the first 30 seconds after cardiac arrest, there is a widespread, transient surge of highly synchronized brain activity that had features associated with a highly aroused brain.
Known as prospective memory, scientific research has shed new light on two separate brain processes that prompt the brain to tell you to remember certain things.
While the raw computational power of the brain declines with age, new studies have found that intelligence increases with maturity.
An American firm has created the world's first brain implant that delivers treatment while recording brain activity as a way of anticipating future health changes.
So we live in a time when we look for wisdom from mega-entrepreneurs. I admit that they’re usually really smart and fascinating--not to say full of contradictions. Peter Thiel, for […]
Individuals are drawn to either good or bad behavior depending on how they recall their past actions.
If you can't make it in The Land of the Free, you're defective—that's the default assumption, the core belief that allows Americans who aren't hurting, who aren't unhappy with their lot, to cling to quaint mid-twentieth-century Walt Disney notions about the inherent wonderfulness of American life.
Homosexual sociologists have put forth several theories as to why the gay community idealizes the male physique, each more politically incorrect than the last.
A new idea out of Durham, North Carolina, may make locally grown urban produce more commercially viable than ever before.
A recent string of high-profile legal events suggest that government institutions are beginning to bend to public opinion.
World meat demand is at an all time high, despite its lack of nutritional benefits given alternatives like beans, nuts, quinoa, and tofu.