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So as not to beat the dead horse that is the year-end top-ten list, today I wish to highlight a very short “best of” list: the year’s most distinguished misinformers. […]
More cuddly holiday season news: According to two architects who specialize in sustainable-living solutions, it takes twice as much land-use in a year to keep a medium-sized dog fed as […]
A Nigerian man who ignited an explosive aboard a Delta Airlines flight is not believed to have connections with organized terrorism.
Black, Hispanic and Asian voters constituted the majority of the electorate in last month’s NYC mayoral vote for the first time ever.
Victims of fraudulent mortgages are battling a banking bottleneck to have their payment plans renegotiated.
A new computer algorithm analyzes the frequency of unique words used by authors in an attempt to quantify literary style.
That Apple purchased the domain name islate.com back in 2007 might hint at the name of its oft rumored tablet computer.
The Columbian Journalism Review takes a look at the year’s most hilarious newspaper corrections from across the country.
The thriller genre is more and more dominated by conservative ideology and plugged by talking heads like Beck and Limbaugh.
Canadian police are considering giving GPS bracelets to Alzheimer sufferers in order to find them should they become lost.
Recent discoveries about how the brain stores memories may aid the development of drugs to treat diseases like Alzheimer’s.
The New York Times is accused of beating the drums of war by printing an editorial advocating a military strike against Iran.
This is a common time of year for Lists. Everyone seems to have one. David Brooks’s Best Essays List ran in today’s New York Times, and almost every other literary publication […]
Just in time for the holidays comes a study that says loneliness spreads like a disease through people’s social networks. In other words, that sad, isolated feeling is contagious. It’s […]
A winter storm that currently covers two-thirds of the country is responsible for at least 18 deaths across the Midwest.
Liberal cynicism about healthcare parallels the feelings of political indifference that elected George Bush, writes The New Republic.
New research silences skeptics who thought it was impossible for Santa to deliver gifts to everyone in a single night.
New research suggests that small changes in rock stress along the San Andreas Fault could trigger an earthquake—the earthquake.
A Chinese academic who helped write a document advocating political liberalization has been sentenced to 11 years in jail.
A Nevada man gamed the CIA during the Bush years claiming he could decode hidden messages in Al-Jazeera broadcasts.