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Women's entrepreneurship is a big key to solving global poverty. How can we make it easier for women to start their own businesses?
It's been 60 years since Rosa Parks stood up for equality on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus. What would she have to say today?
If sold at today's value, the value of that stock would be $45 billion.
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Just as Shakespeare lifted plots from his predecessors, young performers today ought to focus on emulating those artists they like most.
Amidst international conversations about climate change, Chinese artists are turning pollution into an artistic endeavor.
Dark matter may be cold and collisionless, but the strange behavior of planets just might lead to its detection. “Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if […]
How likely we are to bounce back from a setback is not predetermined. Here's why, and what you can do to cultivate your inner fighter.
Lack of deep personal public concern about climate change limits the politically difficult actions governments are willing to take.
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Comedy isn't just one thing, says stand-up comic Ian Edwards. It's a number of things, each of which are distinctly important.
The brain behind these shelters is Industrial Designer Johan Karlsson, designing what he described as an “incremental modification to existing refugee shelters.”
In a future full of distracted drivers, cars will need a way to communicate with the outside world.
As it turns out, assessing long-term risk/reward ratio isn't our strong suit.
The NSA's ability to get records from telecommunications companies just changed, and that's a good thing.
A drug is going into human testing that could prevent rapid aging.
The best-selling Christmas toy embodies and encourages acceptance of surveillance as a necessary aspect of modern life.  
An update on the star 1,480 light-years away that gave us hope we weren't alone in the universe.
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Today's #TuesdaysWithBill answer serves as affirmation to grandparents everywhere.