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In the throes of the financial crisis of 2008, novelist Tom Wolfe was asked where the downturn left his Masters of the Universe—the iconic testosterone-driven magnates of Wall Street featured […]

With so much information being stored in Web databases around the world, data now created will potentially stay recorded in the memory cloud forever. That's why Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, Director of […]

When we look for signals from alien life in outer space, we see nothing and all seems to be quiet. The laws of probability tell us that the Universe should […]

The economies of reuse and exchange will become a more permanent feature of our consumer environment.

Dual use technologies make it especially difficult for countries to negotiate agreements over the weaponization of space. The New Scientists asks what positive steps can be taken.

“Hypocrisy is always a double edged sword; but in the case of anti-colonial struggles both sides of the blade cut the weaker party more deeply,” says history professor Mark LeVine.

A little financial education can be a dangerous thing, says one MIT professor of management. It gives investors a false sense of confidence in a world where complexity rules.

The online game Blizzard now makes its users submit their real first and last names in order to post comments. True/Slant asks if this is the end of Internet anonymity.

"We all know that real men don’t eat quiche," says Miller McCune. "New research suggests men opt for foods associated with a masculine identity — even if it means passing up something they prefer"

We often treat our future selves they way we would treat others, preferring to help later than sooner, says Scientific American. Think of your future self and you'll save more money.

"Scientists have questioned the assumption that a lack of exercise causes fatness in children. The study suggests that physical inactivity appears to be the result of fatness, instead of its cause."

Christian nationalists, who believe God has chosen the U.S. as the promised land, succumb to "fear, misery, confusion and self-reproach," says one writer who investigated the Call 2 Fall movement.

Harold Fromm criticizes vegans for their vanity and pretentious sense of virtue. "However delicate our moral sensibilities, it still remains that to be alive is to be a murderer," he says.

Ernest Hemingway didn't think so. The author and aficionado of the activity thought it more a drama where the bull and the bullfighter play their respective roles: death and danger.

Brooklyn-based design studio Hyperakt operates under the admirable slogan of "Meaningful Design for the Common Good" – a commitment to only work with companies whose products and services create positive change […]

“Pure energy,” intoned Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock in the classic Star Trek episode "Errand of Mercy." (In 1988, Information Society immortalized the phrase when they sampled it into their […]

Will wonders never cease: professional self-promoter Emily Gould recently accused feminist blogs of stoking their readers' outrage to "gin up page views." Gould's case in point is a reported piece […]

We have not come out of the recession enough to stop spending money says the Foreign Affairs editor.

Britain's role in foreign affairs has been in decline for a long time, and that will continue unless the country joins with other European countries in a very sustained way.