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Today's decision warns colleges and universities across the country that they need to be very careful about how they use race in admissions. But the headline is clear: they still may do so.
In Brazilian favelas, citizens are demonstrating to increase the pubic's awareness of how funds and development projects for the upcoming 2014 World Cup will affect the country's native population.
For six years, Nicholas Merrill wasn’t allowed to say who he was.
I love a good protest song, this one by Auditory Canvas couldn’t be more salient. The tune is dubbed entirely with particularly resonant segments of John F Kennedy’s "President and […]
To raise funds needed for renovation, the St. Brother Albert Homeless Shelter in central Poland is offering a course in urban survival, teaching its students how to live in the concrete jungle without money.
Nelson Mandela was never in prison. Or so he told Peter Guber and a group of American businessmen.
NYU graduate student Josh Begley set out to document all U.S. drone strikes, a project that he thought might take 10 minutes. In the video below, he explains how, 5 months later, his project is still unfinished.
Faced with the prospect of long journeys to the city, which costs transportation fees and commuting time, it is no wonder why many capable workers prefer to remain in their villages with their families.
The only way in which we can bring our creative resources fully into play is by misjudging the nature of the task, by presenting it to ourselves as more routine than it will turn out to be.
If you have a play list you listen to while exercising, you are one of many who find music a helpful physical aid. But what is it about music that gets us going?
Scientists at the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, have found relationship between pet owners and dogs to be highly similar to the deep connection between young children and their parents.
Preeminent Harvard historian Niall Ferguson argues that social mobility is extremely important to any developing or advancing society, and that the degree of social mobility is more important than the […]
While technologies create seamless payments online and at department stores, the result is a kind of instant gratification that may harm our greater sense of fulfillment.
The most detailed map of the human brain ever completed is now available for perusal online, giving neuroscientists a greater understanding of how cells are grouped and arranged inside the brain.
It is impossible to overstate how important this is. On Tuesday, President Obama will lay out a plan for dealing with climate change, and reports indicate it will include regulation […]
Despite having 30-year lifespans, mole rats are known in scientific circles to be cancer proof. Researchers think their resistance is thanks to tissue very rich with high molecular weight hyaluronan (HMW-HA).
It's not easy being Justice.
MIT medical researchers have created an algorithm that accurately measures a person's pulse by tracking how the head moves involuntarily when blood is pumped from the heart to the brain.
Smoke-free products such as electronic cigarettes are a safer alternative to smoking cigarettes, despite the FDA's obstinate refusal to permit companies from saying so.