In his Big Think interview, the prospective GOP presidential candidate takes aim at what he calls the “fourth bubble,” i.e., government spending.
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The fact that foodies so often construct their pursuit of rarified taste to be an environmentally and socially responsible act only intensifies the ugly paradox at the core of the movement.
Why are new drugs always tested on laboratory mice, anyway? And when a drug does successfully cure a poor mouse, how does it find its way to human drug stores?
What if scientific investment sought to benefit people directly rather than secondarily through technological development? Welcome to the emerging world of social innovation.
Rare earth minerals crucial to the operation of laptops, cellphones and iPods are mined from conflict areas like the Congo where profits from resource extraction fund civil wars.
New companies are selling privacy protections to Internet users while others are hoping to cash in on the opposite: inviting users to sell their data to online retailers for cash.
Taking advantage of social networking software to increase collaboration and innovation in the workplace is the next big thing, says Tom Davenport, professor of management at Babson.
Within 10 years, everyone will have a digital copy of their genome for just $1000, and by comparing millions of these codes, we may find the cure for aging and […]
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The Cancer Genome Atlas project, already several years underway, is transforming the way scientists think about and treat cancer.
A volunteer effort to map all the food stores in Brooklyn, N.Y., is an example of two rising trends: citizen mapping and increasing scrutiny of urban Americans’ access to healthy food.
“The age of plastic, disposability and consumerism was an artefact of overproduction in the oil industry. Higher prices and harder access will usher in a different age,” says Andrew Simms.
The world’s leading particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, has yet to find any evidence of certain particles that physicists depend on to explain our subatomic world.
Attempting to explain quantum theory, physicist Erwin Schrodinger proposed an experiment almost 80 years ago that would send PETA into a frenzy.
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Enzymes like Telomerase and Resveratrol, though not the Fountain of Youth unto themselves, offer tantalizing clues to how we may soon unravel the aging process.
When it comes to the Libyan revolution and the peculiar madness of Colonel Gadaffi, what is the right move?
The Wall Street Journal says European taxpayers deserve clarity on just who benefited from the ‘Irish bailout.’ “It was the creditors of Ireland’s banks.”
Darwin himself struggled to explain the evolution of so intricate an organ as the human eye. But scientists have discovered a worm’s eye that may make the job easier.
A new ‘dementia map’ of the UK suggests six out of ten cases go undiagnosed, leaving families without the support they badly need.
Talk to the workers who are hurting most in this epic downturn, and you’ll find they are overwhelmingly out there on their own. No one has their back. Which is why unions matter.
My run officially starts tomorrow, but I wanted to get my standpoint up. I’m a high school mathematics teacher, and I focus on my class. I spend most of my […]
I’ve enjoyed the week. I’ll continue to watch for comments and respond to them for a week or so. And I’m sure I’ll be back regularly to the blog. My […]
Is the term leadership a euphemism? If so, fornwhat? n Since about half of America is holding a primary or a caucus today, thatnquestion seemed relevant. I’m not sure most […]
How much technology does a school need and how does a school leader ensure that the right technology is in place? Well, those are a couple of tough questions but […]
This question is at the heart of a dissertation one of my advisees is undertaking. In fact, she successfully defended the proposal today (congrats, Jennifer!), so I thought I’d share […]
Yesterday, I talked a little about how visionary leadership is essential in leading the way to the schools we need with technology, teaching, and learning being comprehensive and cohesive. The […]
Contributing to the uprisings across the Middle East is the suppression of democratic aspirations by authoritarian regimes. Important too is the dangerous state of the region’s economies.rn
Oxford professor of economics Paul Collier says the biggest challenge facing Africa today is to reign in corruption during what is sure to be an era of massive resource extraction.
Journalists Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington clinched an Oscar nomination for their documentary “Restrepo,” in which they show the Afghanistan war through the eyes of soldiers.
Ever since Charles Darwin formulated his theory of evolution, scientists have wondered whether the process still applies to humans. At some point, did we stop evolving?
American’s mediocre placement in the world of standardized tests has little to do with the popular notion of its present decline—the golden age of American education simply never was.