The Arab revolutions have emboldened Palestinians to ask for more, both from Israel and from themselves, even if that means preparing for a much longer struggle.
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A Russian space probe headed for Mars’ moon Phobos has stalled in Earth’s orbit. Meanwhile, N.A.S.A. plans to launch its biggest Mars rover yet in just over two weeks.
Public opinion about climate change, observes the New York Times’ Andrew Revkin, can be compared to “waves in a shallow pan,” easily tipped with “a lot of sloshing but not […]
Last weekend, at a physics conference in France, physicist Giovanni Punzi showed that the signs of a new particle discovered at Fermilab had strengthened rather than disappeared.
Funny thing about fear. By the time you feel it, your body is already quite busy keeping you safe.
Since the beginning of history, humans have searched for the beginning of time, asking how we came to be. But at no other point has humanity come so close to finding the keys to creation.
I just read this great essay by Ari N. Schulman in that indispensable journal THE NEW ATLANTIS with the telling title “GPS and the End of the Road.” One of Schulman’s […]
From neon-lit “La-La Land” to dark, gritty L.A. Confidential and L.A. Noire, the city of angels—Los Angeles—has occupied a place in the public’s imagination in many forms. In Julius Shulman […]
Scientists at New York University have combined two methods that scientists use to carry D.N.A. into cell nuclei. The result could help analyze proteins and ultimately improve gene therapy.
I was invited by AARP and the Atlantic Monthly to join a forum “What’s Next? How Technology will Revolutionize the Boomer Generation” in Washington, DC last Fall. This is update to […]
The Madden video game series seeks to hone a message that is difficult for many young football players to accept: get a concussion, and you are off the field for the rest of the day.
This week is Children’s Book Week. In honor of the event, I thought that I’d highlight 21 interesting e-books for kids. Collectively, these give us a glimpse into what the future […]
Pierce, M., & Stapleton, D. L. (Eds.). (2003). The 21st century principal: Currentnissues in leadership and policy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard EducationnPress.n n The essays in this volume examine the future […]
n nFans of the now-deceased Business Innovation Insider may remember that I posted about a live simulcast of the Metropolitan Opera in Times Square last fall. It was all part […]
This semester, 22 undergraduate and graduate students from a diversity of majors at American University have participated in a new course that I created titled “Science, Environment and the Media.” […]
[cross-posted at The Gate] Defamation can be either written (libel) or spoken (slander) and is generally defined as false statements of fact that harm another’s reputation. The United States Supreme […]
The violence of football has always been a concern and the sport has seen periodic attempts at reform. But recent neurological findings have uncovered risks that are more insidious.
[This is Post 3 for my guest blogging stint at The Des Moines Register.] Archimedes said “Give me a lever long enough and I can move the world.” This week […]
Remarkable genetic differences between a brain of an autistic person and a person without autism found by U.C.L.A. researchers have changed the way doctors and researchers think about autism.
Well, after sorting through all of the Leadership Day 2010 posts, tracking down incorrect URLs, deleting a few nonexistent items, and reviewing some attempts to recycle old posts, I believe […]
Newly unveiled personal robots or drones could allow students from across the globe to actively take part in campus life on any college or university they chose, like remote-controlled avatars.
“If u really r annoyed by the vocabulary of the text generation, it turns out they were doing it in the 19th century—only then they called it emblematic poetry, and it was considered terribly clever.”
nnA bit busy today, so to borrow from the newest USGS/SI Volcanism Report:n On 12 May, the plume rose to an altitude of 8 km (26,200 ft) a.s.l.nDuring an overflight […]
Often I’ll find myself spending 20-60 minutes a day in a situation where I have some time to kill and my phone. Given the value I get from Twitter (breaking […]
Harvard labor economist Richard Freeman says American labor laws are hopelessly behind the times and that New Deal gains no longer fit the economy of 2010.
I admit I was creeped out by this new paper, from the European Journal of Social Psychology, which reports that people primed to think about their ancestors performed better on […]
Obesity is a growing global health problem, and we all know why, don’t we? It’s the fault of corporations that sell corn syrup, and a starkly unequal society (why would […]
Last summer I described how psychologists at Rutgers closed the usual gap between higher boys’ and lower girls’ scores on high-school chemistry tests. When the students used a textbook whose […]
Part 2 of the Q&A with Dr. Boris Behncke of Italian National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology in Catania.
In late August 1893, painter Paul Gauguin returned to Paris after spending the previous few years in Tahiti, the Polynesian paradise that propelled his art to a whole new level. […]