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The world of parenting was presented with a gentle and nudging article in the New York Times last week on the importance of maintaining an imaginative and fun environment for children.The […]
At the Energy Innovation 2010 conference I attended last month, Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency Cathy Zoi said something that I found very interesting about Obama's economic stimulus package: "With […]
I have made it back to Ohio from Minnesota today - no small feat considering all the snow across the middle part of the continent. Amazing how a little phase […]
There is a point in every child's development where he begins to realize that the content of his parents' minds is different than that in his own, says author Malcolm […]
So how many of you have heard of Piers Morgan? The answer is probably rather a few more than had a week or so ago. Morgan has stepped into the […]
Over the weekend I read Amy Chua's paean to "Chinese parents" in The Wall Street Journal with morbid fascination. What felt morbid was Chua's "Mommie Dearest" anecdote about battling with […]
In what can only be described as awkward timing, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited Yemen only a couple of weeks after amendments went to parliament that would allow President […]
Should everyone be given regular CT scans to look for the disease?
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Embracing intellectual messiness goes against our instincts and training as educated people, but writers and artists should accept and understand it as crucial to the creative process.
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When you look beneath the surface of the everyday, you realize how radically different and unexpected other people’s experiences are from your own.
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What the world craves is differentiation—the things that other people could never have imagined on their own.
The Internet has been burning up this past week as massive groups of animals around the world have been suddenly dying en masse. We hear reports from Sweden, Louisiana, Arkansas, […]
On the night Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated, Robert F. Kennedy had to give a speech. In a world before blogs, Kennedy was in the awkward, yet history-making position […]
While it's established that polygamy can be a source of oppression for women, to over-simplify and construe it as necessarily generating abuse is unproductive.
The PR people within the music industry are masters of spin. The music industry isn’t doing so badly as they claim. In fact, year after year more music is being sold.
Understanding the neurobiology of religious belief is a far cry from explaining it away.
The EU should make 2011 the year when it finally takes the lead in helping Bosnia on its journey from a war-ravaged ward to a stable member state.
What can we learn from visualizing the nature and shape of collective decisions about the inclusion of a topic in Wikipedia?
As much as I disagree with the blasphemy law, I do not think that criminalising the act of blasphemy is violative of any fundamental human rights guaranteed by the Constitution.