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After reading Josephine: The Hungry Heart yesterday, all I could do was shake my head. The five hundred page biography by Jean-Claude Baker and Chris Chase brought Josephine Baker to […]
China moves to Russia and India takes over Canada. The Swiss get Bangladesh, the Bangladeshi India. And the U.S.? It stays where it is.
We've been covering bike-sharing programs quitea bit over the past few months. And now Mexico City is stepping in with what could easily be the most impactful bike-sharing program of […]
Colonel Russell Williams is one of those double-life people—an able military commander who was also a rapist and murderer. The crimes for which he was sentenced last month were shockingly […]
“If a week is a long time in politics”, as Harold Wilson once said, two weeks away from politics on paternity leave is clearly an age. The Leader of Britain's […]
Non-denominational spirituality plays an important role in the day-to-day functioning of post-apartheid South Africa, says a former director of its Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
After the Soviet Union collapsed, N.A.T.O.'s purpose dissolved. Still, America’s embrace of "collective security" has since become a rationale for subsuming Europe’s military autonomy.
Will Facebook's up and coming messaging medium prove an important advancement in communication technology or just another step toward communication overload?
How will the Giving Pledge, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett's quest to get billionaires to donate half their wealth to charity, impact philanthropy and the world's needy?
A sculpture nestled in the courtyard of C.I.A. headquarters contains four secret codes. To date, three have been uncovered, but the fourth remains a mystery.
An inventor believes he has solved the riddle of how to get humans exploring serious ocean depths previously too dangerous to investigate—by getting us to breathe liquid like fish.
Federal land conservation efforts are a failure and large swaths of the nation's property should be turned over to the states, say Holly Fretwell and Shawn Regan at Forbes.
Wi-Fi may be killing trees. A study by a Dutch university suggests that Wi-Fi radiation causes strange abnormalities in trees and stunts the growth of other plants, such as corn.
Expertise might come with a dark side as all those learned patterns make it harder for us to integrate wholly new knowledge. Jonah Lehrer on why expertise is inflexible to new ideas.
When economists advise the government, their vision may be clouded by their own financial interests, say two University of Massachusetts professors.
Is history repeating itself? Professor of English Alan Jacobs draws parallels between the moral development of 18th century England and our own post-modern times.
Has 2010 been a watershed year for Western politics or just a continuation of the move towards a neoliberalised system? History professor Mark LeVine gives an answer.
Researchers at M.I.T. have taken a step toward replicating organs by discovering a way to make "building blocks" containing different kinds of tissue that can be put together.
Sorting out America’s fiscal mess is relatively simple. What’s needed is political courage. Tax code reform and spending cuts are essential, says The Economist.