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Nothing, according to Mosley. He wakes up early every day so he can write before most people even read their morning paper.

“My job is writing for people to enjoy and then writing about a broader and a deeper world,” says Mosley. Too many aspiring writers forget about the first half of […]

Mosley thinks his background as a programmer is evident in his writing: “Often when I write about computer programmers I’ll write about the way that they see the world and […]

The author writes 1000 words a day. The next day he edits the prior day’s 1000 words and writes 1000 more. A dedicated schedule, he says, is what gets stories […]

The novelist explains why was inspired to get inside the head of someone suffering from the brain disorder.

A conversation with the novelist.

As evidenced by the Copenhagen Conference, global action is not going to stop climate change. The world needs to look harder at how to live with it, says The Economist.

The biggest problem that the Church faces in backing off its condemnation of contraception is a potential loss of religious authority, which is no small matter in a hierarchical church.

Being sociable has its advantages—across more than 500 mammal species, animals that lived in social groups had bigger brains than those that lived by themselves.

When you meet a paradox, you’ve got only two choices. One is to accept that the implausible is true; the other is to reject the conclusion, and explain why the argument is wrong.

Five centuries ago, Gutenberg’s printing press was the new technology that swamped the world with data. What can we learn about our own times from the event?

An introduction to Joomla was my birthday present to myself this year. If I had known the open source content management system was this good, I would have started using […]

A new wave of research into bullying’s effects suggests that bullying can leave an indelible imprint on a teen’s brain at a time when it is still growing and developing.

A surplus margin of military superiority does not buy increased national security, says Paul Pillar, director of graduate studies at Georgetown University’s Security Studies Program.

Pessimism is often wrong because people assume a world where there is no change or innovation. They fail to recognize insights that might alter current trends, says Bill Gates.

A Chinese consumer society would improve the lives of hundreds of millions of people in China and once again give hope to world economic growth, extending benefits outward.

Fred Pearce looks at what hopes there are for agreement on a replacement for the Kyoto protocol as world experts get together from 29th November to 10th December in Mexico.

Psychologists have discovered more “bad news” about human nature: If doing the wrong thing is easier than doing the right thing, most of us will just go “with the immoral flow.”

Brands regarded as exclusive, arrogant, daring or trendy are beginning to suffer severe declines in popularity, while those associated with quality, reliability and durability are rising.

Like many other countries, the United States is buried under a pile of mounting debt. Tunneling out will mean making some tough choices that can’t be put off much longer.

Harvard law professor and crusader against usurious banking practices, Elizabeth Warren is building a consumer watchdog agency that is making powerful banks nervous.

The key to writing is concentration, not inspiration, says the author. It requires deep attention to your characters, to the world they live in, and to the story you have […]

Asked how we should strive to discuss terrorism and Islam, the author suggests a better way of looking at the struggle in the Middle East is to view it as a battle within Islam over modernity rather than a battle between Islam and the West.

Salman Rushdie says that when Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini decreed that he should be killed in 1989 it wasn’t so great for his love life.

The author is inspired by his friend Christopher Hitchens’ heroic effort to live, to write, and to continue to be himself even while he very publicly battles cancer.

Western writers have always given themselves the freedom to write about any subject. But if a writer from the Third World wanted to write a book set in Illinois, people […]

People tend to focus on the “magic” more than the “realism.” But, like all fiction, fantasy arrives at truth via the road of untruth.

Rushdie is fascinated by video games like “Red Dead Redemption,” which allows gamers much more agency to choose the path they take through the narrative. Will all storytelling have to […]

Richard Thaler of the U of Chicago catalogs wrong scientific beliefs that were held for long periods of time, the flat earth and geocentric world among them.