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At the Chronicle of Higher Educationthis week, the Open University's Martin Weller has a very strong essay on why blogging for many should be a central part of a scholar's […]
Busuu.com is an online network for learning languages. The site offers lessons in a number of languages and the ability to video chat and interact with native speakers - who […]
Happstr is a mobile app that allows you to mark geographical locations where you're feeling happy, and to see others' "happiness spots" on the map. Happstr challenges users to focus […]
Sonar is a mobile app that lets you know when friends and the friends of your friends are in your vicinity. The app uses information from networks such as Facebook, […]
Developed by NeuroVigil, the iBrain is the first portable brain scanner. Unlike other brain scanners, the iBrain simplifies the number of EEG channels to just one, creating a map of […]
Path is a "smart journal" app for the iPhone and Android. This app is a private social network to share pictures and moments with an intimate circle of friends and […]
While in American and the UK, having a picturesque family life is considered practically essential for holding the highest office, it confers no political gain on French politicians.
--Guest post by Kathrina Maramba, American University graduate student. Most of us know what we fear about nuclear energy. We fear its perceived unpredictability, its potential utility in weapons creation, and […]
At what point do the competitive business practices of higher education cut against the public good it is intended to serve? The nation's system of student loans needs reform.
Ari Phillips -- a graduate student in journalism at the University of Texas -- has started a unique project documenting the story of climate change in the U.S. Southwest via […]
Much of what we know about the world's most ostracized country comes from a clandestine network of some 200 informants that communicate via cell phone to a news agency in Seoul.
Despite the attention we give the Internet for making us socially isolated, it may be that automobile traffic is more to blame for isolating people from their neighborhoods.
Conventional farming practices favor corporate agriculture and are widely considered environmentally unsustainable, but can organic farming feed a world with nine billion people?
“Nobody is representing anything," Lucian Freud once said of all art, including his own. “Everything is autobiographical and everything is a portrait, even if it's a chair." Elsewhere, the grandson […]
These days, one of the blogs where I spend the most time commenting is Leah Libresco's Unequally Yoked on Patheos. This isn't just because its author has a unique and […]
In September 2011, Pew released the latest in its annual "Views of the News Media" survey, showing that Democrats have moved closer to Republicans in their dissatisfaction with the performance […]
Thomas Mann of the Brookings Institute and Norman Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute have a must-read essay in today's Washington Post titled "Let's Just Say It: The Republicans Are […]
Rather than trying to cope with or counteract the cognitive decline that comes naturally with age, neuroscientists say that continuing to live an active and engaged life is the best strategy.
New psychological research shows that when people are prompted to think analytically, they downplay their belief in supernatural beings like God and angels. Are you a believer?
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We know the fact that China’s economy today is about 40 percent the size of the US. But such has been the fear here of rising China and the fact […]