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People have been thinking strategically forever, but game theory as a real science dates back less than 100 years to the mathematician Joseph von Neumann.

This game show probability brain teaser has puzzled people for decades. Which door would you pick?

In the U.S. and Japan, people who have trained at great length and expense to be researchers confront a dwindling number of academic jobs, and an industrial sector unable to take up the slack. 

If you haven’t yet enabled encrypted backups for your iPhone or iPad, now is definitely the time to start, says Ars Technica, after the revelation that Apple devices track users’ whereabouts.

A leading nanotechnology scientist has raised questions over a billion dollar industry by boldly claiming that there is a limit to how small nanotechnology materials can be mass produced.

We are currently living in the “learning decade,” according to entrepreneur Sam Herring. Here are some of the most exciting startups that are trying to capitalize on the new currency of ideas. 

With tuition spiraling upwards as the cost of learning paradoxically plummets, higher education is on an unsustainable course. 

In this scene from the 2004 Stephen Hawking biopic entitled “Hawking,” the young physicist uses Einstein’s theory of relativity to get a girl to fall in love with him.

Sam Biddle says date sites like Match.com should screen out sex offenders. But how far should such screening go? And once a sex offender always a sex offender?

ProPublica, a non-profit news startup, scooped up a Pulitzer Prize on Monday, its second in two years and the first ever for a series of stories that were not also published in print.

In the near future, an intelligent electricity grid may collect data across neighborhoods, cities and states to inform consumers of the cheapest time to use energy, but the system carries privacy risks.  

The disappearance of digital information is an issue our global society must address better or we won’t lose bits and bytes, we’ll lose our history, warns Read Write Web.

More than half of British adults are so worried about their online reputation they would love to erase all they had ever posted on the Internet about themselves, a new survey shows.

This video companion to Richard N. Katz’s E-Book “The Tower and the Cloud” explores how computing power has reduced our reliance on traditional brick-and-mortar institutions in favor of new and […]

Trailer for PBS Series E2 Energy.

There’s been a violent backlash on Greece’s streets over the country’s austerity package and $157b bailout. Angry Greeks are pressing for the country to default on its debt.

Aung San Suu Kyi: “Human beings want to be free and however long they may agree to stay locked up, to stay oppressed, there will come a time when they say ‘That’s it.'”

Finnish voters have ousted a pro-bailout government and hung a question mark over Europe’s plans to rescue Portugal and other debt-ridden economies.

A leaked report says the Sri Lankan government shelled hospitals, fired on civilians in no-fire zones and attacked the U.N. and Red Cross in the last days of civil war two years ago.

The BRICS countries are bypassing Europe as they build what will become the shortest and fastest internet route between the Americas, Africa and India and China.

While the British Navy may have secured military victory for the British Empire, Shakespeare’s words secured the peace.

A tiny chip implant is enabling paralyzed and injured people to move objects by the power of their thoughts—the implications of brain-computer interface reach into the science fiction realm.

Contrary to expectations, asthma rates have skyrocketed in urban areas in the U.S. that are not particularly clean; respiratory infections in early childhood may actually be a risk factor for it.

Tiny Fey’s new memoir, Bossypants, sets out some smart principles of management and leadership among amusing and insightful anecdotes.

Twitter may be fending off multi-billion dollar acquisition offers but it seems to be in turmoil and lacks vision. Mathew Ingram suggests it take a leaf out of Apple’s book.

Companies are still feeling their way forward on “globalization”. Should they develop leadership centrally or try to source talent locally? How best to manage a diverse workforce?

This is a column that starts out being about horse whispering and ends up being about leadership and politics. Move forward when there’s acceptance, pull back when spooked…

Survival-scenarios are popular in leadership training but what relevance do they have to the boardroom? Former Navy SEAL Rob Roy aims to instill an “I can make it through” confidence.

New research suggests family-friendly workplace policies may not increase profits, but they at least cover their cost. Better staff retention and work attitudes are among the payoffs.