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John Pistole, head of the Transportation Security Administration, says the inconvenience of body scanners and pat downs is a small price to pay for safety.
Analytically, the task of deficit reduction is simple: cutting expenditures and raising rntaxes, says Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz in his plan to reduce long-term budget deficits.
The pipe dream of the paperless office has been around for a while, hoping to mitigate the massive paper waste generated by the corporate world – 1,410 unnecessary pages printed […]
Yesterday I tried to clear up some of the confusion surrounding the fight in Congress over extending the Bush tax cuts. But in the process of trying to explain how […]
While we still haven't quite discovered the fabled Fountain of Youth, a major breakthrough was recently made toward the goal of eternal life. Scientists at Harvard Medical School have discovered […]
There is a very real danger that some analysts, diplomats, commentators and politicians are taking all that is revealed by Wikileaks at face value, without questioning the veracity of some […]
3D printing is easily the biggest design futurism meme of 2010. We've previously looked at other approaches to on-demand, DIY, factory-free design objects. Now, NYC-based designer Alissia Melka-Teichroew is applying […]
If the transmission rate of HIV is low, then how have so many young women on the continent become infected?
A bacterium found in the arsenic-filled waters of a Californian lake is poised to overturn scientists' understanding of the biochemistry of living organisms, says Nature.
If you were to track the daily happenings that flatten people's moods, you would likely find rejection at the core.
We ought to make opt-out easy but beware of injuring the model that brings us free content.
We are full of the accumulated baggage of our idiosyncratic histories. From hiccups to wisdom teeth, the evolution of homo sapiens has left behind some glaring imperfections.
We can start changing attitudes to pay inequality by looking each other in the eye and asking each other what we earn – without pride, without bitterness.
Putting U.S. secrets on the Internet...requires a reconceptualization of sabotage and espionage — and the laws to punish and prevent them.
The Federal Reserve has made public an enormous trove of data about the emergency measures it took during the worst of the credit crunch and the ensuing recession.
The best way to avoid a new Korean War is to deter future North Korean provocations. Reducing U.S. forces in the region doesn't do that.
The perception is that the minds of the 22 FIFA members were already made up, either through vote trading or through friendships and contacts over many years.
In an effort to head off increasing scrutiny of Internet privacy, a group of online tracking rivals is building a service that lets consumers see what those companies know about them.
Yesterday my boss asked me a question out of the blue. “Didn’t you used to sell stocks?” “A long time ago,” I said. And with that, he began to tell […]
This sums up everything that needs to be said about the "populist" Tea Party. It's not populist and its values of are antithetical to those of the Boston Tea Party. […]