“For both F.D.R. and Obama, national economic disaster was electoral good fortune. But Obama’s luck ran out almost as soon as the votes had been counted.”
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“What makes some people so much more alluring than others? The Independent discovers that good looks and sexiness are determined before we’re even born.”
“Will the average earnings of women begin before long to exceed that of men after being so far behind in the past?” Nobel Laureate Gary Becker on women’s propensity for education.
According to civic engagement, education and intellectual atmosphere, Boston is America’s smartest city. The Daily Beast ranks 55 of America’s metropolitan areas.
Gerontologist Thomas Kirkwood thinks women tend to live longer than men because their reproductive capacity is more essential to the survival of the species.
The Iraq War Logs released yesterday by WikiLeaks demonstrate the discipline and accountability problems inherent in the practice of contracting mercenaries.
The industrialized world is aging, but perhaps there is cause to celebrate. Stefany Anne Golberg at The Smart Set sees a future of technological wonder and wise elders.
A study by the Electromagnetic Compatibility Society finds that: “There is no definitive instance of an air accident known to have been caused by a passenger’s use of an electronic device.”
Which will prove better: austerity or deficit spending? The respective approaches taken by Britain and America to recover the economy may prove a useful historical experiment.
“The moon is pockmarked with cold, wet oases that could contain enough water ice to be useful to manned missions.” A recent NASA mission found evidence of life’s cornerstone.
Surveys show that religious people prefer secular justifications for their political stances while secularists presume they don’t. Is religion getting an undeserved bad name?
“Many reasons have been given for the West’s dominance over the last 500 years. But, Ian Morris argues, its rise to global hegemony was largely due to geographical good fortune.”
The life of a microcredit loan is often very short—lengthening the repayment window would allow borrowers the opportunity to create bigger gains, says Forbes’ Eva Pereira.
The last day of The Daily Beast’s ideas forum in New Orleans features talks from political thinkers like James Carville and business leaders from India and China.
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There are seismic events which have such import, that it is possible to remember exactly where one was and what one was doing when the news first broke. I was […]
The “It Gets Better Project,” started by Savage and his husband Terry in response to recent LGBT teen suicides, has become such a success that even President Obama has made […]
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Breaking the analog world into zeros and ones results in some loss of information, but it allows for an infinite number of exact replications.
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Because of the wave nature of matter, there is a finite possibility—albeit a minuscule one—that you could go to bed on Earth and wake up the next morning on Mars.
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Even if science is able to teleport humans across large distances, would the teleported human really be the same person or just an exact replica? What would happen to the […]
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Scientists always say that fusion is 20 years away, but this time the physicist says it’s for real.
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Today’s robots are less intelligent than cockroaches, but advances in quantum computing—transferring information using atoms rather than silicon—could revolutionize the field of AI.
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The physicist explains why other universes in the mulitverse could have many more dimensions—and could comprise Einstein’s “Mind of God.”
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Could the power of gravity be harnessed as a means of nearly instantaneous communication between planets—and even galaxies?
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The physicist scoffed at the idea of quantum entanglement, calling it “spooky action at a distance.” And while it has in fact been proven to exist, this entanglement can’t be […]
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In economies that have grown extremely fast over the last few decades, not only are women and men equal in terms of literacy, but in many cases there’s more women […]
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Research by the World Economic Forum seeks to quantify how nations are dividing resources between women and men—regardless of whether the countries are rich or poor.
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Insects’ benefits are valued at £134bn and coral’s at £109bn in a pioneering report equating biodiversity to cash in the hope of encouraging conservation.
“We would all be better off — Muslim Americans first and foremost —if we could have a more open discussion about Islam, Islamic militancy and what … it means to be Muslim.”
Ross Douthat: “I’m cautiously optimistic that the Cameron government is taking the right course in Britain — and somewhat more pessimistic about America’s capacity to follow suit.”