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As heartbreaking as the job losses and foreclosures are, there is also a bright side to the downward economy — Americans are beginning to see that "less is more."
The political fetishisation of sending offenders to prison for longer periods has been a disaster in the U.K., The Independent says. "We have ended up warehousing petty criminals."
When it comes to changing long-standing habits, such as cigarette smoking, why not make changing old, unproductive behaviors as easy and pain-free as possible?
Seth Godin on why he's launching a new publishing venture called The Domino Project. "I think it fundamentally changes many of the rules of publishing trade non-fiction."
Microsoft has revealed a new feature that will ship with Internet Explorer 9 to help users avoid the online tracking that is now widespread on the Web.
Non-human animals are a lot smarter, and less "reflexive" or "instinct-based" than most people think. And maybe we humans are a bit more reflexive than we'd like to believe.
What is it like to suffer face blindness, where you can't recognize faces, even ones you've seen before and know well? Neurologist and writer Oliver Sacks explains his experience.
McVictimization teaches Americans to think that obesity is someone else's fault. The truth: In the vast majority of cases, obesity is a preventable condition.
After two years of Obama's foreign policy pragmatism toward Latin America, are Republicans in Congress threatening to turn back the clock to Cold War times?
Assange will presumably get Time magazine’s Person of the Year nod. Hitler and Stalin are past winners. It will be left for us to decide whether to file Assange under good or evil.
We have to stop kidding ourselves, Paul Krugman says. No one in Congress really cares about the deficit. Krugman’s right. As much as our politicians claim to care about the […]
Do science journalists have weird psychic powers? You might think so, given the near simultaneity of publications this fall on the touchy theme of studies that don't really prove what they're supposed to have proved.
So, the start of the week has now officially ranked on the busiest I have had in, well, years, so the posts have been more than a little sparse - […]
I went from the paintings, prints and poetry of John Lennon to the paintings and prints of William Tolliver in twenty four hours this weekend. Friday night, instead of parking […]
New research indicates that the disease starts in one area and spreads all over the brain. Could these findings inform efforts to develop a vaccine?
Every once in a while, scientists come up with an clever idea that is so novel and unexpected that it catches you by surprise. The idea by itself may not […]
Scientists always say that fusion is 20 years away, but this time the physicist says it’s for real.
We've previously looked at educational tools that help consumers make better choices when it comes to sustainability. Now, a new joint project between the Not For Sale Campaign and International […]
We are becoming used to Wikileaks reports of cables from US Diplomats being immediately accepted as factual statements, rather than opinion based on encounters. The latest being the leaked communiqués […]