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In an effort to reach out to a younger audience and shed some of its bastion-of-the-cold-war image, NATO has launched a new web effort in advance of the organization’s summit […]

My idea of a newly reformed educational system in America. The concept of a redesigned I.Q. and SAT tests to acknowledge the multiple intelligences.

So, here’s a quick rundown of the waves of feminism as generally accepted. As with any history of an Idea, this is just one version of the story, but I think it is a useful structure through which to think about where we are and, from whence we’ve come.

Outside of how best to solve the current crisis, perhaps the greatest macro question of our moment is what the net effect will be on the balance of global powers […]

Are you looking for new and innovative ways to integrate austerity into your new recession-conscious lifestyle? Boil your dental floss and use it again and again. Accessorize with hand-me-downs. Ride […]

Could a fixation on the language of depression economics actually precipitate a worse economic slump? The Times speculates that a eye toward past downturns could increase our complacency with the […]

Another day, another mainstream media piece that misses the mark on Facebook. I have an idea for my fellow print journalists. Since owners are now secretly colluding to contrive ways […]

Neale Martin explains the interplay between the conscious and the unconscious mind.

Matthew Modine is interested in making films that explore what makes people tick.

This is an interpretation of Niccolo Machivelli’s 1517 imcomplete poem L’Asino. The so-called cynic cold-blooded advisor of evil shows a ‘parenthetical’ aestheticism in his perception of friendship. Friedrich Nietzsche, one of the great prospects of aesthetic politics comes to be a useful tool for the interpretation of Machiavelli’s ‘poetic therapy’.

This essay describes a model for urban development that takes into account and makes use of the externalities that exist in the built environment. Buildings and the people that inhabitat them makes neighborhoods and vice versa the value of a building is in its locations. How can better frame this relationship between an object and its environment? How can develop strategies for a integral area development that learn from the best global examples?

Obama’s early life was decidedly chaotic and replete with traumatic and mentally bruising dislocations. Mixed-race marriages were even less common then. His parents went through a divorce when he was an infant (two years old). Pathological narcissism is a reaction to prolonged abuse and trauma in early childhood or early adolescence. The source of the abuse or trauma is immaterial: the perpetrators could be dysfunctional or absent parents, teachers, other adults, or peers.

Andrew Cohen on the awareness of consciousness.

It will take a new level consciousness…or a catastrophe.

Have you ever wondered what the fabric of spacetime is made of? I have. It seems most elusive to scientists. Honestly, from what I can tell, no one has really […]

Ultimately, it’s about self-preservation.

Lacewell’s father is an advocate in the Black community, and her mother was a White Mormon.

Two years ago, environmental consciousness was a luxury, says Copeland.

There’s a danger that this too will fade in our consciousness, Copeland says.

Though today’s designers have to straddle the line, the better ones have a social consciousness, Zemaitis says.

Race is no longer at the center of the national consciousness, Lemann says.

Technology is furthering environmental consciousness

Technology is furthering environmental consciousness, Graham Hill says.

Kula sees that society is shaped by spiritual, or religious evolution, as well as increasingly new technologies that use the mind to fashion objects that allow use of ever-evolving consciousness.

On being raised by an Anglo-Cletic Australian mother and a Chinese father.

As a child, Anna Deavere Smith attended an all-white summer camp, and felt out of place. Her young niece, fortunately, hasn’t had such an experience.

If you can afford it, be energy conscious.

Since technology is often ahead of consciousness, society manages to create weapons that are a serious detriment to our well-being. The deepest, most fundamental, spiritual insight is that we are […]

Consciousness, Chopra says, is the ultimate reality.

Nature is discontinuity, and Chopra suggests that our consciousness lies somewhere in that gap.