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“Mad, bad and dangerous”, these are the epithets apparently attached to Gordon Brown, our previous Prime Minister by Tony Blair our previous Prime Minister but one. They form the centre […]
"Journalism should be more like science," says the founder of Wikileaks who has drawn the ire of many political authorities for exposing various cases of corruption and fraud.
"While I do not mean to let bad parents off the hook, the fact remains that perfectly decent parents can produce toxic children." A psychiatry professor on why parents aren't always to blame.
Two English health scholars have written a book called 'The Spirit Level' which locates the cause of social ills in income inequality. The Boston Review unpacks their arguments.
"Students are taking out loans that they may not be able to repay, and some fear massive defaults." Iowa Senator Tom Harkin says for-profit colleges may be doing a public disservice.
"We were promised a life of leisure thanks to hard-working robots and fiendishly clever cyborgs. But the android fantasy has largely been terminated," says The Independent.
"An online game that tasks players with reining in government spending suggests the public is more willing to make hard choices than they get credit for." Miller-McCune on the deficit question.
"The fiscal 2010 deficit—$1 trillion and counting—is an encouraging sign," says Daniel Gross at Slate. The business columnist says worries about a short-term American debt crisis are unfounded.
Al-Shabaab, a brutal Somalian insurgency, has attacked inside Uganda. How much should this international Islamic terrorism concern the U.S. and how can, or should, the U.S. respond?
Hendrik Hertzberg at The New Yorker looks on the bright side of life: despite unprecedented world problems, the author appreciates the good food and good cooking culture in America.
Computing speed doubles once every year and a half, and so does the electrical efficiency of processors, from laptops to servers. The pattern makes our computing lives more convenient.
It’s not Shakespearean. It’s not eloquent. It may not even be meaningful as anything other than today's shallow distraction. Yet Gibson's hate-laced phone porn has captured our attention. Is it […]
What does the future look like? We essentially rely on science fiction thrillers to give us a taste of what lies ahead for humanity: Avatar; Iron Man; I, Robot; Surrogates; […]
Nobel Prize-winning physicist William Phillips has used lasers to make atoms nearly as cold as they can possibly be—but he says he still hasn't gotten them cold enough. "Every process […]
The number one story that has been dominating the headlines for the past two months is the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico. President Obama is now dealing with […]
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The developer behind Winamp and the gnutella network thinks that we shouldn't be able to patent something that is essentially just math. Software, like DNA, is so abstract that it […]
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The developer still writes code on a Microsoft Natural keyboard from the mid-'90s, usually with one big monitor. He also reveals what he's got against llamas.
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In creating the gnutella network without asking the Web giant that employed him, Frankel was trying to "enable people to do things they want to do," rather than trying to […]
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In the era before iTunes, Frankel created one of the first MP3 players. He says that Apple's product has "dumbed down" music sharing software.
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The most productive programmers have an ability to cut through to what’s really important, focus on that, and then know when they've gotten stuff right.