Starting today, New York City is replacing traditional pay phones with touchscreens that will provide weather data, safety alerts, coupons for local shops, and more.

Researchers used simulations to measure physicians against high school- and college-age gamers. In all tests involving robot assistance, the gamers' skills were equal or better.

In terms of their teens' online activities, interaction with strangers still ranks (just barely) as the top concern, according to a new Pew Center/Harvard report.

In a discussion of the five major trends that will change the world over the next 25 years, star architect Daniel Libeskind recently told Conde Nast that the long-term trend toward urbanization will help […]

Henry Rollins says "let’s make college tuition either free or really low and if you have a country full of whip-crack smart people you have a country the rest of […]

Henry Rollins says that education has always been, and will need to continue to be, the main ingredient in shaping our future. 

Tim Ferriss describes how you can learn lifelong skills, and along the way fundamentally change the way you think about food, in four hours.

Desperate to reduce the amount of unsold housing stock, Spain has announced a proposal to offer residency permits to foreign buyers.

The Science Channel will re-run all five seasons of the sci-fi cult drama Fringe beginning tonight at 8pm. The two-hour pilot will air along with the first episode, followed by daylong […]

Despite the fact that homosexuality is still criminalized in many countries, recent active and proposed legislation in a number of countries suggests a rapidly growing trend.

The 2013 German Michelin Guide contains twice as many two-star restaurants as last year's, and more three-star restaurants than those of every other European country except France.

Forget the “pivot” or the "reboot" or the once ubiquitous “2.0” – the hot new technology buzzword this holiday season is the “mobile facelift.” From Silicon Valley to New York […]

"Millions of words have been written about organizational leadership – especially in an anxious economy." So writes John Boyle in his introduction to Leadership in Uncertain Times, a series of […]

Funeral costs went up by a third in the past decade despite the passage of a 1993 law designed to help prevent that from happening. Several new companies are offering much more affordable services, often through the Internet.

Tim Ferriss's new book, The 4-Hour Chef, is a book about learning disguised as a cookbook. 

The more we learn about the universe, the more we move back to the center again.

Last week the member states voted to approve a draft law that would put more women on publicly-traded company boards by 2020.

A decade ago, Chris Hedges titled his analysis of the addictive power of war War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning. If war truly is a force that gives […]

So, I've decided to sign up for Skype after getting several invitations to use it for speaking gigs. (Apparently, sometime when I wasn't paying attention, this became a thing that […]

If we are divided at home, Senator John Kerry argues, we won't be able to deal with the complex challenges that confront the world. Among these challenges is what Kerry describes as "near failed statism" in Egypt and Pakistan.