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The Star Trek actor has some words on invoking Japanese internment camps in the context of the current Syrian refugee conversation.
Many parents in China seek to teach their kids valuable coding skills, and they're not the only ones.
France is welcoming Syrian refugees, but the U.S. is frightened. Have we forgotten who we are and how we got here? 
See it over the coming six weeks, before it disappears and heads out of the Solar System forever. “I have worn myself thin trying to find out about this comet, and […]
The U.K. plans to phase out coal power by 2025, but how will renewable energy factor into the equation?
Let the French flag fly on Facebook. It flies for us all. It flies for life.
The Daily Show host put comedy aside to remind us that Paris truly embodied the values of ‘liberté, égalité, fraternité.’
Edward Snowden lists services that will protect your privacy with just a few downloads.
And the method teaches us just how far Pluto is from actual planethood. “Some kind of celestial event. No — no words. No words to describe it. Poetry! They should have sent […]
Fear might lead U.S. states to try and close their borders to Syrian refugees, but is that really a productive move?
No national museum captures its country’s greatness as perfectly as Russia’s Hermitage.
The author of The Purpose Driven Life has a theory about why Paris happened: We haven't accepted Jesus. 
Anyone not wanting to accept Syrian refugees should really consider this historical analogy.
Companies like Uber get a lot of hype, but they may need to innovate their policies to become real changemakers in the new economy.
As outpouring of support for Paris was unmissable, many were questioning the cultural bias behind it.
The online vigilante group says it has located personal information belonging to ISIS recruiters living in Europe.
Compassion comes is five concentric zones, according to this cynical map.
The researcher behind the famed Dunning-Kruger Effect has found expertise can lead us to claim impossible knowledge.