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Steve Jobs isn't saying why he's taking a medical leave. Slate asks: Is that fair to Apple investors?
Would we celebrate this tableau of human good nature so enthusiastically if we did not also fear, somewhere in our hearts, that we might have reacted differently?
George Monbiot asks: "Who threatens us most — peaceful campaigners or a private militia run by police chiefs?"
A border collie in South Carolina has the largest vocabulary of any known dog. She knows 1,022 nouns, a record that may help explain how children acquire language.
Could online galleries prove a successful sales innovation for a struggling art industry? The first virtual contemporary art fair is about to be launched.
MIT ethnographer Sherry Turkle warns of the dangers of social technology after herself experiencing what was like a schoolgirl crush on a human-looking machine.
Scientists have come a step closer to gaining complete control over a mind, even if that mind belongs to a creature the size of a grain of sand.
As soon as we start saying our lives or our planet from a cosmic perspective is meaningless, we are no longer engaged in science but science-fiction.
In the aftermath of the (Tucson shootings), something has changed. No one can say how long the calm will endure. When it fades, perhaps the memory will leave us all in a better place.
Europe is in deep crisis — because its proudest achievement, the single currency adopted by most European nations, is now in danger.
Ross Douthat argues that the press and Palin have been at war with each other almost from the first, but their mutual antipathy looks increasingly like co-dependency.
The fall of the Tunisian president Ben Ali played out for all the world on Twitter, some dubbing it a “Twitter Revolution” like the election protests in Iran and Moldovia.
Internet debate can be coarse, but it is holding journalists and politicians to account, writes Boris Johnson. What are we going to do about the lawyers, he asks.
A new film explores how globalization has resulted in crises of the economy, the environment and the human spirit — and points the way to a new path.
Faced with a public health crisis, Portugal decriminalized the possession of all illicit drugs. Nearly a decade later, there’s evidence that its great drug experiment may have worked.
Forget that old tagline about the Internet being an information "superhighway". The online world is an information battlefield with pranksters and pragmatists struggling to be heard.
Mysticism has no past, no genealogy, and yet it walks and knows why. How do we account for the religious imagination in the U.S. while Europe grows more and more skeptical?
Prescriptions for antipsychotic drugs have more than doubled in the U.S. over the past 15 years, often given for conditions for which there is scant evidence they work.
The shortage of web addresses is "not a crisis but getting more urgent", say analysts. The web is running out of addresses and IPv6 is the answer.
When future astronomers look to the sky, they will no longer witness the past. Observations will reveal nothing but an endless stretch of inky black stillness.