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The public has made tremendous strides towards accepting gay people—and is even ready to have one in the White House.
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The former President gave his controversial "malaise speech" in 1979, admonishing the American public for consuming beyond its means. Things are even worse now, he says.
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America has been the most innovative nation of the past century. But decades of consumption beyond its means have robbed the country of its competitive edge, says the former President.
After reading George Lakoff’s diary “Untellable Truths” over at Daily Kos this morning, which methodically described why the progressive wing of the Democratic Party always seems to get the short […]
Since it's birth in 1998, Google has become our gateway to the Web (its supremacy threatened somewhat now by Apple and Facebook). It processes over 1 billion search requests every […]
I have a new book out! It's Modern and American Dignity: Who We Are as Persons, and What That Means for our Future. Here's a review/blurb: Peter Lawler is today’s […]
For 50 years, the U.S. Geological Survey has been building an archive of old photos of desert landscapes and new photos of them. Check out the fascinating results.
Ted Cascio on why "The Simpsons" has gone downhill and why it should stop glossing over the issue of racism.
Honey traps, also called "honey pots," have been a favorite spying tactic as long as sex and espionage have existed—in other words, forever.
If the world's leading experts in politics, psychology and game theory were to design a problem to be as difficult as possible to solve, it would probably look a lot like climate change.
Spiegel says that it's only if companies are more generous in their interpretation of fundamental rights that the Internet can continue to function as a public space.
Attempts to explain art, music, literature, and the sense of beauty as adaptations is both trivial as science and empty as a form of understanding.
An analysis of how ants quickly find new routes in a changing maze reveals techniques that could be useful to systems engineers.
Shanghai, China, trounced the competition in an international test of 15-year-olds' skills in math, science, and reading. So what makes the Shanghai students special?
Paul Krugman and David Stockman rarely agree but are united in their stance on the "fiscal irresponsibility of the tax-cut deal." Why and so what?
A new biography reminds us that the late, great German violinist Adolf Busch should also be remembered as leading the short list of musicians who refused to kowtow to Adolf Hitler.
For a few decades now, the title holder for largest volcano in the solar system has been Mars' Olympus Mons. The volcano is a large - and by that I […]
By mid-century there could be over 200 million Chinese Christians.
The new eugenic intention seems to be not only pro-life but pro-quality of every life. The choice will be for every person against nature’s randomness and indifference.
A series of infographics comparing the two countries puts their growing rivalry into perspective.