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Propelling a spaceship with photons would be like trying to energize a spaceship with a flashlight.

The Newspaper Guild has called on bloggers to form an ‘electronic picket line’ around the Huffington Post and boycott further posts until the HP changes its business model.

The days of interrupting people while they are being entertained in order to blast out your marketing messages are over. Today, we need to actually “engage” with audiences.

Economist Parag Khanna leads a distinguished panel on the future of economic competition. This segment asks how America can invest in education, infrastructure and research at a time of fiscal […]

The recent disasters to befall Japan, to be sure, are tragic, but these losses should not result in more than a small decline in the per capita standard of living of the Japanese people.

As emerging markets become major players in the world economy, nations must insist on growth that distributes income across populations in order to prevent protectionist trade policies.

Economist Parag Khanna leads a distinguished panel on the future of economic competition. The first topic in this series asks what really led to the recent economic crisis.

It’s not just how free the market is. Some economists are looking at another factor that determines how much a country’s economy flourishes: how smart its people are.

A host of celebrities from David Lynch to Russel Brand and Moby are helping to popularize meditation. Now many are overcoming its New Age, hippie stereotype and learning to relax.

Preparing ourselves and our societies for crises—just as Japan does for earthquakes—strengthens communities and helps to calmly pool resources should a tragedy strike.

Distinguished neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran thinks that neuroscience can explain why humans make, or at least appreciate, art. But do we need a scientific explanation of art?

Psychologists speak of two modes of thinking: creating narratives and creating paradigms. Naturally, these two would come together in the form of creation myths.

A specialty known as adolescent medicine fills the gap for parents and young people who feel out of place in the pediatrician’s office, but unready for the primary care physicians who see adults.

We are living longer despite getting fatter, and there is no sign yet that the increase in life expectancy is coming to an end, according to a study from the International Journal of Epidemiology.

The majority of people who met their current partner online did not find love through dating sites, but chat rooms (24%), social networking sites (14%), bulletin boards (8%) and a variety of different sites. 

Conventional chemotherapy is like trying to turn off the lights in your kitchen by nuking your house. Personalized medicine will try to turn off the lights by flipping a switch.

Leaders shouldn’t be afraid to look to past successes for inspiration. Before being elected, Booker did a comprehensive study of successful programs around the country, which he then implemented in […]

It’s 10 years since the iPod changed the music industry for good. Back then not everyone shared Steve Jobs’ vision of the future.

Never has postwar Japan needed strong, assertive leadership more — and never has its weak, rudderless system of governing been so clearly exposed.

Christopher Hitchens has a wary prognosis for the Egyptians who thronged Tahrir Square: they likely haven’t got the resources to break the chains of tyranny.

Leaders under pressure—be it from financial crisis or nuclear disaster—often fall prey to the same mistakes. What can Japan’s leadership learn from blunders made during the Great Recession?

Want to start your own company? The founder of TheLadders.com has one piece of advice for you.

Back in 2007, when I was a loan officer for a small mortgage lender in Atlanta, the president of the Pennsylvania title company that closed the majority of the loans […]

Kevin Parker, Head of Deutsche Asset Management, says that private money is finally coming to climate change technology. He says investment will increase annually for the foreseeable future.

Ben Horowitz, partner in the Andreessen Horowitz venture capital company, says there’s a new big wave of technological innovation coming in cloud infrastructure technology.

By organizing data related to patients’ behavior and to drug development, digital technology could eliminate that waste and preserve the public’s health more drastically than any wonder drug.

Inspiration could be lurking somewhere as commonplace as your bathroom. That was the case for iconic sound designer Ben Burtt who has created some of the most memorable film sound […]

Isabel Wilkerson’s masterful history of the Great Migration won a National Book Critics Circle Award last week, a richly deserved honor. You can read my review of “The Warmth of […]

Whatever the immediate dangers to health posed by the exploded nuclear facility in Fukushima, Japan, one clear victim is the growing confidence in nuclear energy internationally.

Among trending topìcs from the current Predictive Analytics World conference is that risk managers must master micro risks, not just “headline risks”.