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The Enlightenment left us with few resources for thinking about what the good life really is, and how we should live it, because the focus was on winning individuals their freedom.
Inspired by Tunisia, Egyptians began their protests online and then added hard tactics on the ground in their effort to bring down a crushingly effective police state.
Once upon a time, films would open, close, appear on video, then vanish. Now with dozens of television channels to fill and rentals going postal, some films never go away.
U.S. Supreme Court justices have ruled that corporations are "artificial persons"; the Spanish Parliament ruled that great apes are "legal persons." So just what is a person these days?
What people are saying to each other is important, but how they are saying it may be even more telling. A new study finds that people who speak in similar styles are more compatible.
The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission’s nearly two-year examination of the 2008 crisis lays blame on two presidential administrations, regulatory agencies and big players on Wall Street.
Professor of the "social studies of science" at M.I.T., Sherry Turkle summarizes her new view with eloquence: "We expect more from technology and less from each other."
If there was a central theme to the president's remarks, it was innovation. He called for more investment in education, research, science and clean energy.
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More than even faith in the market, perhaps our most widely shared belief as Americans is our deep, almost fundamentalist commitment to the ideal of science and innovation as strengthening […]
The business world is full of what can be most kindly called “empty suits”—individuals who look the part but hollowly fulfill positions of power. In the art world, the empty […]
We don’t know about you, but we’re a little tired of conventional web searches. If you want to search anything (say Egypt), Google obediently proffers a number of sites starting […]
The global recession pushed climate change action toward the bottom of the geopolitical agenda. Yet President Obama bucked conventional wisdom Tuesday night by making clean energy technology a centerpiece of his State of the Union Address.
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Each year the world’s most powerful leaders meet at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland to discuss how to remedy challenging and complex global issues. Yet this […]
Where is the geographical midpoint of Europe? The question is straightforward enough, but the answer isn’t.
Autism sufferers unquestionably have feelings. It’s processing them—and reading others’—that they struggle with.
What are the practical applications of cryogenics today?
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The innovative structure of giant church congregations like Saddleback Church in southern California provides a model that businesses can emulate.
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The co-founder of Field String Theory explains why the universe has 11 dimensions rather than any other number.
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Propelling a spaceship with photons would be like trying to energize a spaceship with a flashlight.