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Is former Vice President Joe Biden’s “return to normalcy” approach too moderate for Democratic voters?

Everyone has secrets. Some have personal secrets of infidelity, lies and embarrassing tidbits that they hope will never see the light of day. Powerful institutions like businesses and governments also have […]

As a former Penn State faculty member, I am overwhelmed and outraged by the stories we are hearing out of Happy Valley.  My colleagues across the country continue to ask me why so many students have rallied in support of Coach Paterno, despite revelations that clearly suggest merely following the letter of a reporting policy is insufficient in a case alleged to be this egregious.  Are Millennials – at least the thousands chanting, “We want Joe” – missing a sensitivity chip?  

Terrorism is not an ideology. What makes something a terrorist act is not the political cause that motivates it or the background of the people involved. Terrorism is a particular […]

“I do not know whether I shall return from my long weekend trip alive,” the mathematical psychologist Anatol Rapoport once wrote. “But I do know that the number of traffic […]

Morality is not like some kind of cosmic bank, where you can deposit good deeds and use them to offset future misdeeds. People ignore heroic pasts when assigning blame.

Historically, astronomers have often named things creatively, bizarrely, and often inaccurately. But which terms are the most egregious?

Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.

Dennis Klatt developed trailblazing text-to-speech systems before losing his own voice to cancer.

Do the benefits of plastics outweigh the costs?

Debate is a verbal sport with winners and losers. As such, it is less about the truth and more about who looks and sounds the best.

Awe-inspiring moments can be found in our daily lives, and they have surprising benefits for our health and sense of well-being.

Using physics, Ross Chastain floored it during the final turn, scraping the wall and passing 5 cars to advance to the NASCAR championship.

After 70 years, “The Power of Positive Thinking” remains incredibly popular, even though its critics find the book to be mostly fluff.

In a 2018 article, Gallup writer Ryan Pendell shared some frightening figures for business leaders. Public poll data showed that only a quarter of employees believed their leaders had a […]

Sometimes, moral lessons can be learned from blowing away zombies.

A new study analyzed Martian glaciers to discover that the planet had numerous ice ages.

An information war is being waged.

Young galaxies are bright and blue; old galaxies are red and dead. So how did this old, red galaxy form so early? The observable Universe contains two trillion distinct galaxies, but […]

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Why the effects of aging are detrimental to being the U.S. president.

The ‘People Map of the United States’ zooms in on America’s obsession with celebrity

From billions of miles away, a faint, single pixel shows us how precious and alone Earth truly is. There are people alive today who can remember a time where no human-made […]

China’s rise has necessitated a global PR push. It includes influencing how the movies you watch depict China.

It’s the first time a Category 4 hit this region. Ever.

Fill up your gas tank, no matter how hot it is, with confidence and safety from anywhere on Earth. For most of the northern hemisphere, summer is in full swing. Along […]

In 2015, the United States brokered a revolutionary international deal with Iran about their nuclear programme. Here’s the science behind it. In 2015, a historic agreement was reached between Iran and […]

The study might also help us to identify the prodigy gene, should it exist.    

We take for granted how much the Moon does for Earth, but not all of the changes would be bad. “If we get rid of the moon, women, those menstrual cycles […]

In light of the prison sentences of Oscar Pistorius and Lionel and Jorge Messi, we examine why athletes who commit crimes have the luxury of lighter sentencing.