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‘Tiger Mom’ spurns out another bestseller – a bit racist but true? NEW HAVEN – Social media is currently hyping a soon-to-be published book by America’s notorious ‘Tiger Mom’, Amy […]
The Frankenstein metaphor that opponents of genetically modified food use to promote their fears is more apt than they realize. Yes, the monster is an unnatural life form created […]
Instead of squeezing more cars onto London's busy streets, planners have proposed a superhighway that could accommodate up to 12,000 cyclists an hour.
It is truly appalling for people who lead cosseted lives, neglecting their sworn duty to defend the US Constitution, to sneer at those who defend it for free, or at great personal cost.
The genomes of tumors can be analyzed, providing "a much better way of deciding what types of treatments to pursue."
The tactic of "gish gallop" — a rapid-fire listing of supposed weaknesses of evolution — cannot be properly countered in a limited-time format of a debate.
What happens when you shoot boiling water into -41C air?
A beautiful spiral just outside the Big Dipper holds many secrets that can teach us about our own Milky Way! “If I were a flower.. I would be a sunflower.To always […]
Young women today are expected to be wives, mothers, housekeepers, excellent athletes, be entrepreneurial and save the world.
Today’s mission marks the eighth flight of the Falcon 9 and the third flight of the v1.1 configuration and the thirteenth launch overall for SpaceX.
The following is a guest post by Mark Molloy “Sir we know our will is free, and there's an end on't.” (Samuel Johnson as quoted by J. Boswell in The Life […]
97 percent of Fortune 500 companies have been hacked (and 3 percent likely have been too and just don't know it). So how do we close the "Cybersecurity Knowledge Gap"?
"Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth." - Joan of Arc (born on this date in 1412)
Several people have asked me what I thought about David's column about the moral message we send people by completely legalizing marijuana. The price would drop rapidly. It would be […]
“Education isn't about knowledge, it's about privilege.Would we know about Hannah Arendt had she not studied under Martin Heidegger and Karl Jaspers? Let me be more specific, education is about the privilege […]
The internet is really, really great… for cats. In space. “There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.”-Albert Schweitzer We spend all week together wondering […]
Here are all of the arguments against Edward Snowden. This is why they are wrong.
BEIJING AND SHANGHAI - Every single Western writer in China will face a tough decision in 2014: “Do I translate Chinese terms or not? If negated, this could lead to […]
If you embrace three things - fanatic discipline, empirical creativity, and the ambition for something bigger than yourself - you are going to be of immense value to whatever enterprise that you’re part of.
Before you buy a house, before you buy a car, before you start acquiring things, first put away enough savings so you could go a year without a job because you might have to.