Here on the Nicola Peninsula in Costa Rica, the medical news that dominates headlines today is not swine flu but a mysterious affliction called grisi siknis(or “jungle madness,” in the […]

Judd Apatow:  comic visionary, insightfully raunchy, slacker hero… conservative crusader? Ross Douthat smartly makes the case that Apatow is leading the charge in making socially conservative lifestyles seem cool to […]

It’s a familiar scene: It’s Tuesday night and you’ve finally settled into your couch to watch television. Your “work” Blackberry vibrates. You check it. It’s an email from your boss […]

It may not be newsworthy that a pair of nuclear-armed Russian submarines was caught patrolling near the U.S. coast. But it was bound to make headlines no less, and for […]

A conversation with Anil Dash, influential blogger and Chief Evangelist at Six Apart.

Anil Dash says the great challenge for new media involves balancing competing demands for accessibility and immediacy.

Blogger Anil Dash shares his wisdom on boosting blog traffic and income.

Anil Dash explains how the blogosphere has grown from a small, tight knit community to a pervasive engine of modern communication, and evaluates whether or not it’s a good thing […]

Anil Dash explains how LOL Cats teach us about the evolution of language, and confesses about his Internet prankster past.

Blogger Anil Dash details his role in establishing his medium as the Internet’s primary form of communication—and explains why he’ll never write a book about it.

When you want to see art, that contemporary expression of the human essence, do you find some stand-up comedy in an events bulletin or do you head for a gallery? […]

Sports fans are no strangers to the creep of statistical analysis changing the face of professional athletics, be it through Moneyball, the explosion of people playing fantasy sports, or elsewhere. […]

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“What you believe to be true will control you whether it is true or not.” Jeremy LaBorde Recently I was following a thread relating to William Dempski and Intelligent Design […]

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Here goes. In what is either the last gasp of a dying industry or the long-awaited retrenchment of an American staple, the big-time newspapers may be going pay only. Rupert […]

Dev Patnaik raves about his big ideas: an “empathy dashboard” and–tongue firmly in cheek–a hand pug dog.

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You’d be hard-pressed to find a more infamous gearhead than former Tonight Show host Jay Leno. With an upcoming prime-time talk show that will presumably pay him in the tens […]

Duke economist Dan Ariely warns that monetary incentives can destroy quality of work. He also believes there are often alternatives to layoffs.