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The discourse of homosexuality as it becomes more popular makes it more possible for people to become gay or lesbian—but it doesn’t produce homosexuals, says Butler.

Nobody is born one gender or the other, says the philosopher. “We act and walk and speak and talk in ways that consolidate an impression of being a man or […]

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is best treated with cognitive behavioural and graded exercise therapies, say British scientists writing in The Lancet. But some support groups disagree.

Morality is not like some kind of cosmic bank, where you can deposit good deeds and use them to offset future misdeeds. People ignore heroic pasts when assigning blame.

One way or another, it’s clear the food price bubble has reached crisis levels. But why hasn’t it reached America? And will the honeymoon soon be over?

Want to know how bad things are in Hollywood right now — how stifling and airless and cautious the atmosphere, how little nourishment or encouragement a good new idea receives?

In our virtual, global world, leaders must figure out how to forge personal relationships with their employees even if they are on the other side of the globe.

Financial crooks brought down the world’s economy—but the feds are doing more to protect them than to prosecute them, says Matt Taibbi at Rolling Stone Magazine.

Many studies have shown that dolphins can understand human vocabulary and syntax. The problem is that dolphins can’t respond in kind, but now biologists are starting to change that.

Washington policy wonks have been grappling with a subject that is more the province of poets and philosophers than bureaucrats: what is the value of a human life?

Connecting the dots between hair care and the American belief in reinvention, Polykoff invented one of the most famous advertising taglines in history: “Does she or doesn’t she? Only her […]

An inventor from the Jersey Boardwalk, Popeil’s great genius was to make the whole world care about something that previously only weirdly obsessed aficionados of kitchen gadget had cared about.

Michio Kaku and Peter Diamandis tackle the difference between the way our brains and machines compute, and how Artificial Intelligence will impact the future of the Web.

As we contemplate the farthest reaches of where the Web is going, it is remarkable to consider how technical advances have already fundamentally altered our notions of privacy online.

Malcolm Gladwell pours cold water on the promises of search technology, suggesting that new technologies are solving problems that don’t really exist.

For the past four decades, tension between artificial intelligence and intelligence augmentation—A.I. versus I.A.—has been at the heart of progress in computing science.

By the fall of 1861, Walt Whitman had come to believe he needed to do something for the war effort. His first act was to contribute a patriotic broadside in verse.

Despite the vast amounts of computing and communication power in corporate hands, companies are only at the early stages of using I.T. to revamp business practices.

There are certain aspects of economic life, such as expensive hotel internet connections, which can only be explained when we grapple with the bounded nature of our brain.

Cultural impresario and literary and software agent John Brockman has spent the last half century merging art and science to create what he calls the Third Culture.

The first step to managing your own body language is to forget about your body language and focus on your intent. What do you want to happen? Focus on that first, says Nick Morgan.

Florida Virtual School’s second online course / video game, Conspiracy Code Intensive Reading, appears to be ready. I blogged about Conspiracy Code American History a year and a half ago. […]

If we can predict fairly accurately whether a student is likely to drop out in 9th or 10th grade 5 or 6 years earlier, isn’t that a pretty big indictment […]

Scott Elias and Dave Meister are sponsoring LeaderCamp 2010, an online unconference for school administrators, on June 24, 2010. As they say, “it’s gonna be awesome.” Follow LeaderCamp on Twitter […]

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On January 28, several students in the Van Meter Community School District demonstrated to Iowa legislators the work that they are now able to do as a result of the […]

As I’ve said many times: If a teacher gets it, a classroom changes. If a principal gets it, the whole building begins to change. If a superintendent gets it, the […]

Overheard at a preschool I visited yesterday: Good job! I like the way you all are staying in line. You’re so good at this! The socialization to be a cog […]

True statement by a teacher (said with all sincerity) in one of my workshops this semester: We’re so far behind our students. How do we catch up and move past […]

The Ron Clark Academy looks like a wonderful school. But is it realistic to expect a significant number of our teachers to teach like this?