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A team of consciousness scientists in Wisconsin are exploring new frontiers, "translating the poetry of our conscious experiences into the precise language of mathematics."
"U.S. Energy Secretary Chu encourages the peaceful use of nuclear power at this year's International Atomic Energy Agency gathering in Vienna."
"Times are tough, but women's intuition can serve as a tool for sustainability. Relying on it will help you rethink your current business."
Today's customers expect more from leading companies and brands than they ever have before. As enlightened consumers empowered by the Internet, they have the power to propel brands to tremendous […]
Last week, The Daily Show's Jon Stewart announced the "Rally to Restore Sanity," to be held October 30 on the National Mall. "Ours is a rally for the people who've […]
How does the problem of asymmetric information affect the billion-dollar market for male prostitutes in the U.S.—and should there be a premium paid to those willing to post pictures of their faces online?
"The main way in which honor matters for what I’m calling 'moral revolution,' which are big changes in moral life over a relatively short period, is by mobilizing people through […]
A recent feature piece in The New York Times on the 25th Paris Biennale, currently at the Grand Palais until September 22nd, made the bold statement that “[f]uture historians may […]
Shorter Newsweek: A half-witted, mean spirited, quasi-functional alcoholic would be a great Speaker of the House. [Photo credit: Alli' Cat', Creative Commons.]
As if this weren't bad enough, Douglas Irwin, an economist at Dartmouth, is out this week with a new grievance against France. He says it bears much of the blame […]
I'm still playing catch-up from the field trip, but there is a pile of news - mostly research-related rather than new eruptions - so I thought I'd whip up a […]
In September 1940, a Polish army captain crept into the one place everyone wanted out: Auschwitz. His missions was to file intelligence reports on methods used at the camp.
"The result of the death of God was the divinization of Man. But having witnessed the atrocities committed in the name of such anthropocentrism, midcentury theorists sought to displace humanism."
"Jonathan Franzen’s juvenile prose creates a world in which nothing important can happen." The Atlantic's B.R. Myers says contemporary language robs language of its import.
"Easy money from the Bank of England is setting up Britain's economy for another bust." The Adam Smith Institute says government monetary policies feed boom and bust economic cycles.
"Troops, money and a plan were long lacking in the battle against the Taliban in Afghanistan. In a SPIEGEL interview, Commander David Petraeus, discusses these failures with unusual frankness."
"The Estate of Sir Winston Churchill has launched its own iPhone app and will use social media to bring the former Prime Minister’s 'wit and wisdom' to a wider audience."
"A surprising number of high-profile economists, on both the left and the right, think it’s time for the Fed to try one more measure: injecting the economy with a healthy dose of inflation."
"For these middle-class wives, theirs is an existential crisis borne out of over-high expectations and, frankly, emotional greed, consumerism of the heart." Yasmin Alibhai-Brown is the anti-guru's guru.
"Malicious activities like virus writing and hacking cost businesses globally more than a trillion dollars per year." Al Jazeera asks who benefits from such crimes at a hacking conference in Hungary.