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An anticircumcision group in San Francisco is the latest to join the fray over the alleged health benefits of the practice by pushing for a ban—is it simply a barbaric procedure?
When Catherine Middleton walked down the aisle of Westminster Abbey on Friday—a willowy vision in white—her noticeably thinner frame sparked rumors that she was on the Dukan diet.
A new model for understanding human decision-making, called Deep Rationality, acknowledges the irrationality of human decision-making but suggests that it might be rooted in evolution.
A positive outcome of global economic meltdown is that corporations are increasingly working together for social change, and many are harnessing social networks to do so.
Do you know what your boss does? Researchers have studied how CEOs of big companies spend their time. Is it bad news that longer days correlated with better productivity?
A look at China's leadership and how, since the Tiananmen crisis, differences over power and policy have been fought out behind a rigorously sustained facade of unity and discipline.
Will senior leaders in the U.S. State Department lead by example in using Corridor, an internal social network supporting their new 'need to share' not 'need to know' ethos?
Meet Muslim women frustrated with current leadership and confronting prejudice in their fight—not for the fainthearted—against extremism. "We need the discourse of women."
Just as engineering innovations have a 30-year shelf life, institutional safeguards, whether financial or nuclear power regulation, need to evolve and change hands every two or three decades.
The Allen Telescope Array, a set of 42 radio telescopes that has been searching for alien signals and conducting astronomical research since 2007, has been shut down due to budget cuts.
Wired—which says you should care about the controversy over iPhones and Android smartphones tracking users' location—reports on legal action by two Apple customers.
Digital information services and social networks provide an unending firehose of real-time content. What is curation, who should do it, and why do we need it now more than ever?
Feudal society had many elements of commons production and huge disparities in incomes. Just like digital manor economies today. The digital peasants are getting restless.
What's special about Facebook's Deals? What's in it for users and what are the implications for direct competitors Groupon and LivingSocial and, down the track, PayPal?
About 500 million people in India have no form of reliable identification. The government has started a five-year $430m project to address that with a huge biometric database.
New technology start-ups are increasingly locating in Berlin, where many companies are beginning to innovate rather than simply clone successful American ideas.
Piracy is not the only problem in the complex, multi-border world of modern merchant shipping. Unsafe and abusive ships abound. Do we need a "Save Our Seafarers" campaign?
Leading from behind. Is that the best policy for the U.S. in a world in which its power is waning? America must act more humbly, maybe, but is it stuck again in the Middle East?
Obsessing over the injustices of Guantánamo Bay may become a surrogate for a wider hatred of America. But read the files and you'll realise that obsession is the only humane response.
The story of hunger and poverty is very complex. It is a world where those without enough to eat may save up to buy a TV instead. Where more money may not mean more food.