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Wal-Mart and other US retailers have been accused of selling goods from farms that use child labor.
The Church of Scientology has elaborate means of preventing its leavers from spilling its secrets, according to ex-members.
For the first time an experimental drug to treat lupus has been found to be effective in a second round of clinical trials.
Steve Abrams wouldn’t advise dropping out of college, though it seemed to work for him. He got out of there a semester in, and is now successfully the owner of […]
John Irving came by Big Think to discuss his latest book, “Last Night in Twisted River,” and the craft of fiction writing. He explained that for each of his 12 […]
The ethics of more than 30 lawmakers and their aides have been under scrutiny, according to a leaked report.
Why do Joe Lieberman and Evan Bayh oppose Obama’s healthcare reforms? Ask their wives.
The coronary angiogram was not discovered through scientific skill but via a medical accident.
The economic boats aren’t rising, they’re bobbing, and analysts are being swept away by the tide of numbers, writes the Wall Street Journal.
The political crisis in Honduras could be nearing its end after the de facto government agreed to let the ousted president finish his term.
An artist with autism has drawn an 18-foot picture of New York from memory after a 20-minute flight over the city.
Thousands of juvenile convictions in Pennsylvania have been chucked out following a “jailing kids for cash” scandal concerning a former Luzerne County judge.
Wal-Mart plans to cater to our cradle-to-grave needs—and is now selling coffins.
Spiders find a bloodsucking-by-proxy diet sexy—and it helps control malaria, new research finds.
For the first time in decades NASA will subject monkeys to radiation experiments to test the long-term effects of space travel on humans.
“Nobody who’s ever been poor would ever use the phrase ‘selling out.'” So said Sherman Alexie, award-winning author of “War Dances,” “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven,” and […]
While sustainable agriculture is rapidly becoming one of the looming issues of our time, a myth-based propensity toward naturalness may be stripping the movement of any effectuality.
Author Janet Malcom’s book discusses the “morally indefensible” career of journalism in an industry which turns guttings into a spectator sport.
An aged Somalian man has made a 17-year-old his sixth wife after a huge wedding celebration with hundreds of guests.
New research reveals that birds use light rather than magnetic fields to aide their migration.