Hot on the heels of a series of international U.F.O. sighting disclosures, the New Zealand government has joined the party and made public 2,000 pages of U.F.O. eyewitness accounts.
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What’s the difference between new ideas that are good, and those that are merely novel? Professor Alan Jacobs insists on asking moral questions as technology progresses.
One thing a school might be doing in generally educating the student is teaching him or
her appropriate patterns of responsible civic behavior, says Harvard professor Sean Kelly.
Perhaps being a procrastination addict isn’t such a bad thing. There may be surprising benefits to putting things off, says Columbia Business School professor Eric Abrahamson.
Influencers are what makes the greentech industry world go round, so here are the 10 individuals that have had the biggest effect on the greentech sector this year.
Don’t underestimate the significance of China’s rise. We are living through the biggest shift in wealth, power, and prestige since the Industrial Revolution.
Anosognosia is an intriguing neuropsychological syndrome in which a patient with one or more paralysed limbs denies they have anything wrong with them. A form of Freudian defense?
The U.K.’s Business Secretary has lost power to block Murdoch’s BSkyB bid after he told two journalists posing as constituents that he had “declared war” on the media magnate.
The weird things we swallow and a wonderful man who dedicated much of his life to removing odd objects from people’s insides are the subject of the new book “Swallow.”
Scans show that most activities only cause a portion of the brain to “light up” with activity. Music makes all of the areas “light up” and create new neural pathways.
About 27 percent of all gene families that exist today were born between 3.3 billion and 2.8 billion years ago, two researchers from MIT have reported in Nature.
Yesterday’s FCC ruling on net neutrality shifts billions in profits and boils down to one fact: There will soon be a fast Internet for the rich and a slow Internet for the poor.
Private contractors cost taxpayers worldwide untold billions in corruption, inefficiency, and mismanagement. The solution isn’t getting rid of them — it’s showing us their paperwork.
Net neutrality is the most important free speech issue of our time, says U.S. Sen. Al Franken, but regulations to be discussed today are badly flawed, he claims.
German Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière on the failed terrorist attack in Stockholm, his opinion of WikiLeaks and governments’ responsibility for protecting the Internet.
Hundreds of Army social scientists are unqualified, a former boss says. He also claims some defense contractors charge exorbitant prices for “the lowest common denominator of people.”
The butchered bones of 12 men, women, and children found in a cave floor in Spain may be the remains of an extended Neanderthal family killed and eaten by their fellow Neanderthals.
The extent to which massive growth in commercial fishing is depleting the sea’s biodiversity has become source of a heated debate within the world of marine fisheries science.
Today we would have seen parliamentary elections, but they were postponed, so instead, like everyone else, I’m waiting to see the results (if any) of today’s goings on in Abyan.
Saba and 26September are reporting that four soldiers have been killed in an ambush in Abyan. Tracking this as to culpability, but it seems that violence has been ratcheting up, […]
For those with an interest I did a Bloggingheads segment with Mark Goldberg here.
Three new articles on Yemen (in English) that you should read.1. Bernard Haykel in the National2. Fawaz Gerges for CNN3. Michael Knights for the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
If anyone has some free time and can make it this sounds like an interesting, if predictable, lecture.
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that a deal to send the Yemeni detainees to Saudi Arabia is in the making. This comes out just as I argue in “How […]
So here I am sitting at home on Spring Break, writing up a report on Yemen, and just as I come to the section on press freedoms in the country […]
Apologies for the extended absence from blogging. It couldn’t be helped. A lot has happened in the last two weeks, some of which I’ll even be blogging about in the […]
To any readers for whom this has not yet aired: Greg is on Newshour and on The Charlie Rose show this evening, talking, I believe, about recipes. Or Yemen. He […]
For all our Danish speakers out there, and seeing as how I come from good (or at least hearty, as family legend says we were chased out of Denmark a […]
After threatening several times, I have finally added a “Yemeni reading list” in the post below and I will create a permanent link on the side. The list is based […]