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Every time I see a row of seaside lampposts, each with a single seagull perched on it, I wonder: Do those birds think we built the highway system for them? […]
I've been trying to update on the evolving situation at Merapi all day, but the news is just too fast and too tragic to keep up. I'll try to keep updating […]
In the final guest post on Colorado’s defeated Amendment 62, a "personhood" initiative that would have given full legal rights to fertilized human eggs, Trina Stout examines the effect of […]
The Tea Party—with its flamboyant supporters and over-the-top rhetoric—makes good copy. It make such good copy that it sometimes gets more attention than its actual influence warrants. But give credit […]
Ocean pollution has been a topic of increasing concern lately and its devastating aftermath for marine life has been grimly documented. To raise awareness about the issue, Electrolux has introduced […]
Christine Quinn hates it when people say "it is what is." As a kid she read every biography in her school library about a political leader or famous woman. "The […]
Consumers today are knowingly and unknowingly providing businesses with more data than they've ever been capable of collecting before. The analysis of this information could have profound implications for business.
There isn't really such thing as a "masculine" and a "feminine," says feminist icon Gloria Steinem. Because we've been so deeply propagandized with the notions about what it means to […]
One of the biggest problems I find in the coverage of geologic events in the media is the relationship between cause and effect. Many times the confusion of what factors […]
The new eruptive phase at Merapi appears to be getting worse - and from the sound of it, the volcanologists at the Centre for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation aren't sure what […]
Forbes' Quentin Hardy says the U.S. economy is on track to collapse in twelve years based on analyses of the diminishing rate of returns from private assets.
"What we divulge might seem contradictory or bizarre because the line we refuse to cross is so deeply personal." Jessa Crispin says privacy concerns are relative.
As the midterm's drubbing ends, Barack Obama needs to embrace the theatrics of the presidency, however cheesy that may seem to him, says Tina Brown.
Professor of physics at Drexel University, Dave Goldberg analyzes wormholes and cosmic strings to determine if time travel might be an achievable goal.
Can constitutional democracies generate the motivational resources that nourish them and make them durable? The Immanent Frame on the new writings of Jürgen Habermas.
"Train wrecks are said to be attractive. Though I don’t agree when it’s my country that’s both the train and the wall." The Pulitzer Prize winner at The New Yorker.
After T.S. Eliot carried poetry and criticism to unbelievable popularity, literary culture itself seems to be slowly but decisively shutting down, says Joseph Epstein.
The Guardian's Kevin Gallagher says that by depressing U.S. interest rates, quantitative easing forces developing countries to defend their currencies at crippling cost.
Researchers say talismans work by attaching a hope or wish to a physical object which induces the placebo effect. The objects demonstrate the power of the mind.
In its obsession with online speed, Google has released free software that could make many sites load twice as fast. Technology Review explains how it works.