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"A study released earlier this year, examining the impact of Title IX, offers hard evidence that playing sports leads to greater educational and employment opportunities."
"Could the decades-long global impasse over abortion worldwide be overcome—by little white pills costing less than $1 each?" Nicholas Kristof reports on a gynecological revolution.
"Why are we always making less than rational decisions? A new book by Dan Ariely explores how people embrace the irrational." The Daily Beast reviews professor Ariely's latest work.
The value of stocks has little to do with whether the U.S. economy or any economy is ailing, says Zachary Karabell at The Atlantic. Yet nearly everyone believes they are closely connected.
"It seems dogs naturally match human gestures in a phenomenon known as automatic imitation." Researchers help explain why dogs owners seem to resemble their pets.
The recession has not deterred a new generation of corporate CEOs who increasingly see adopting sustainable technology as necessary to future profits. This according to a new report.
"Where does the federal government get off spending the average person's tax dollars to help better-off-than-average Americans buy expensive new cars?" Slate on the electric car credit.
"I love a good deal, but as consumer prices keep hitting rock bottom, this is just getting scary." A Salon staffer says our culture of cheap is morally dubious and corrodes standards.
"Two decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, chaos prevails in Dagestan, primarily because of the activities of radical Islamists." The region is impossible to govern, says Spiegel.
"New forms of communication have exposed the fact that the voice call is badly designed. It deserves to die." An author at Wired says lighter forms of communication are superior.
The secret military reports leaked by WikiLeaks demonstrates that while official strategy is to empower Afghanis to run a modern country, the Afghans treat foreigners as the true power.
A Harvard psychologist and dream expert explains how it is possible to influence what you are dreaming about whether you want to fly, stop a nightmare, or have lucid dreams.
"Boredom may be an intrinsic part of life for practically everyone, but it needn't be destructive. In fact, boredom can be a force for good." Give kids freedom, says one commenter at The Guardian.
"The fears about online wagering are demonstrably bogus," says Steve Chapman at The Chicago Tribune, who was pleasantly surprised when a House committee approved online gambling.
"Looking around the United States in the summer of 2010, hysterical moral panic seems an apt description of our fevered political condition." A columnist on our nation's current "moral panic".
Social networks like Twitter not only blur the line between public and private selves, but also between authentic and contrived ones. An author finds herself inventing her own psychology.
Globalization has transformed the practice and study of law, says Larry Kramer, the dean of Stanford Law School. American law firms have dominated the internationalization of law, but this has […]
Jayne Merkel, architectural historian and critic, locates the moment in American architectural history when less ceased to be more and inspiration was found in yesterday's buildings.
Steve Chapman attends a National Organization for Marriage speech and sees how defenders of traditional marriage hope to use their raucous critics to their own advantage.
"Chevy Volt will sell for $41,000 before a federal tax credit, while the Nissan Leaf will go for $32,780 before the credit. The two cars are trying to jump-start the US electric-car industry."