To the outrage of breastfeeding campaigners and probably the utter confusion of most women with small babies, scientists today advocate rewriting the rulebook on breastfeeding.
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Digital data is easily produced and copied. It doesn’t take up too much drive space, and, once uploaded, it can remain online in perpetuity.
This deep divide in American political morality — for that’s what it amounts to — is a relatively recent development: Paul Krugman.
I have a gun. I have had it for several years now, and it lives in a heavy metal cabinet in my sitting room. In owning a gun, I am […]
Kasparov’s archrival excels when he is on the defensive rather than attacking. But ultimately, “the combination of my strengths was superior to the combination of his strengths,” says Kasparov, who […]
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The global financial crisis emptied the pockets of European governments. Although the Netherlands had it easy compared to some of its neighbors, the government still ran a deficit of 6% […]
The attack on gun culture is built on a deep suspicion of the motivations of ordinary citizens expressing political opinions, says American Studies professor Kevin Yuill.
Our natural sunny or negative dispositions might be a more powerful predictor of future happiness than any specific event, suggests a new study of human psychology.
In the aftermath of a global recession and extreme political unrest, renowned author and teacher Deepak Chopra, M.D., believes it’s time for a different kind of leadership.
When felony defendants jump bail, bounty hunters spring into action. It’s a uniquely American system, and it works, says George Mason economics professor Alex Tabarrok.
After President Kennedy’s public blustering over Russian nuclear missiles in Cuba, it was secret diplomatic communication that prevented war. Is secrecy sometimes necessary?
What happens to the digital legacy of those who have complicated online profiles, passwords, digital assets such as music and who happen to be—dead?
Cattle and other livestock create tons of damaging greenhouse gases. There may be one environmentally friendly solution: eating bugs. But will anyone go for it?
Embracing intellectual messiness goes against our instincts and training as educated people, but writers and artists should accept and understand it as crucial to the creative process.
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When you look beneath the surface of the everyday, you realize how radically different and unexpected other people’s experiences are from your own.
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What the world craves is differentiation—the things that other people could never have imagined on their own.
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The PR people within the music industry are masters of spin. The music industry isn’t doing so badly as they claim. In fact, year after year more music is being sold.
Understanding the neurobiology of religious belief is a far cry from explaining it away.
What can we learn from visualizing the nature and shape of collective decisions about the inclusion of a topic in Wikipedia?
As much as I disagree with the blasphemy law, I do not think that criminalising the act of blasphemy is violative of any fundamental human rights guaranteed by the Constitution.
The cognitive revolution of the past 30 years provides a different perspective on our lives, one that emphasizes the relative importance of emotion over pure reason.
The idea that language shapes thought was taboo for a long time, said Dan Slobin, a psycholinguist at the University of California, Berkeley. “Now the ice is breaking.”
The economist won the Nobel Prize for his theory of signaling—which can be useful to someone wooing a mate.
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Budding public intellectual and critic of foreign aid, Dambisa Moyo says the promises of globalization have not been realized. The Independent interviews the economist.
Clay Shirky says that social media’s real potential lies in supporting civil society and the public sphere—which will produce change over years and decades, not weeks or months.
Researchers have made strides in understanding the human mind, filling the hole left by the atrophy of theology and philosophy, says David Brooks at The New Yorker.
Violence in American politics tends to bubble up from a world that’s far stranger than any Glenn Beck monologue, says the conservative columnist Ross Douthat.
The Arizona shooting suspect has been called ‘unstable,’ and no motive has been identified. But did the vitriol in the debates over immigration and health care trigger the attack?
Having a larger waistline may shrink your brain. Obesity is linked to an increased risk of type 2 diabetes, which is known to be associated with cognitive impairment.