Athletes are given a free pass by society—engendering a sense of entitlement and omnipotence. Once the adulation stops for retired pros, these qualities can become dangerous.

“We need to get past the point where being black and a male means that I am likely to mug you for your wallet, likely to have a minus 15 […]

In an ideal world, celebrities would have a responsibility to come out, but the gay basketball star realizes that the process is personal and variable—like a gestation period. Some people […]

When the basketball player publicly came out in 2007, 85 percent of people were “fantastic.” The other 15 percent were “weirded out.”

The key to succeeding in something that is statistically improbable, like making it to the NBA, is to have a crystal clear assessment of your own strengths and failings.

A conversation with the former basketball player and psychologist.

Scientific innovation is desperately needed to solve our most pressing problems but how scientists get money for their research stifles, rather than spurs, creativity.

“Mental tenacity — and the ability to manage and even thrive on and push through pain — is a key segregator between the mortals and immortals in running.”

"It is easy to talk about great ideas as if they were light-bulb moments, sudden epiphanies where everything comes together at once…but that's rarely how it works."

George Monbiot says financial crisis cuts in the U.K. are being used to "reshape the economy in the interests of business – and to trash the public sector."

"WikiLeaks isn't the problem. It's reams of unnecessarily classified documents that remain hidden from the public eye by overzealous intelligence officials."

"Developing nations need much stronger incentives to regard their biodiversity as wealth to be preserved, rather than a resource to be processed in the pursuit of growth."

Joanna Weiss on Meg Whitman being called a whore: "You have to have been living in a 1940s movie not to know that the word is now applied in a gender-neutral way."

Lucid dreaming — the premise for Hollywood blockbuster Inception — is real and becoming more common, experts believe.

On the impact of the increased cost of health labor John C. Goodman predicts: "Huge labor market upheaval and high unemployment, looking indefinitely into the future."

Karl Rove says the presidential campaign will focus on two broad issues: the way somebody governs and the way in which they act; their persona and their agenda.

We have long wanted to create a neuron-by-neuron map of the brain’s circuitry to give us a 3-D glimpse into its connections are, how they work and how the different […]

Sady Doyle has a piece in the Atlantic about how the latest case of HIV in the porn industry has revived public concern about the lack of condoms in straight […]

While in many parts of the world today women enjoy greater power and opportunity than ever before, there are also places where women remain essentially powerless, lacking access to even basic education or human rights.

Until she was 10 years old, performance artist Marina Abramović believed her parents when they told her that her birthday was November 29th, “Republic Day” in her native Yugoslavia. They […]