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The Center for Media and Democracy and The Nation magazine have won this month's Sidney Award for excellence in socially conscious journalism, the Sidney Hillman Foundation announced Tuesday. The winning […]

I am thinking about investing in a husband. While it is true that I won’t be able to sell him in the future if I ever need some quick cash […]

Start-up Badgeville is launching a new product called Social Fabric that aims to go beyond gamification to give companies more ability to drive user behavior.

For some strange reason, I ended up watching the new movie The Help yesterday, less than twenty four hours after viewing Driving Miss Daisy for the first time. The most […]

More than other devices, the tablet can know enough about you to understand the context around your queries and give you better answers when you search.

Great Big Ideas, the first Floating University course, features twelve of the most important thinkers and practitioners in their fields. These lecturers are constantly making news, and in this blog, […]

The big issue for reporters, editors, and publishers isn't automated text generation. It's the explosion of free human-authored content on the Web.

Great for consumers, bad for authors? As Amazon prepares to launch its long-rumored Android-powered tablet, it is also reportedly thinking about an e-book rental service.

Digital fitness–the ability to adapt to changes in the digital environment—is lacking in the PR sector though it was an early adopter of social media. Time to rethink traditional PR tactics.

Guest Post by Jenna Le. Jenna Le has worked as a physician in Queens and the Bronx, New York City. Her first full-length collection of poetry, Six Rivers, was published by New York […]

We have argued for decades that we are running out of space for our garbage in the thousands of landfills currently peppering the globe... Now we are faced with another […]

A body of running water may be called any of many different names, the most generic being stream, the most common being river.  A river can be defined as ‘a […]

While some inventions will remain forever confined to the pages of science fiction novels, much of what we've dreamed up in books - warp drive, star gates, portals through space and time - will one day make the leap in to living rooms everywhere.

It has been awhile since I've talked about the volcanoes of Colombia - they've had a fairly quiet year, but that doesn't mean that nothing is going on. If you […]

My friend Bryan Caplan, the iconoclastic George Mason economist (redundant?), has long waged jihad against the "self-interested voter hypothesis," which is the hypothesis that voters prefer and vote for policies […]

Thanks to huge loans from the Chinese Government, solar manufacturing has shifted from being led by a geographically disperse group to one dominated by Chinese companies.

Dream of bashing in Michelle Bachmann's ferocious grin? Ripping open the capacious gut of Gingrich? Frying that execution-lovin' Rick Perry? Dissecting Mitt Romney to see if he's as weird on […]

"I define an expert as someone who can tell you exactly how something can’t be done," says X Prize founder and Chairman Peter Diamandis.