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Archaeologists are trying to unravel the meaning of mysterious text and images inscribed on a rare 400-year-old slate tablet discovered at Jamestown, Virginia.
Seven Hindu pilgrims were killed on Thursday in a stampede at a religious festival on the river Ganges in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal, according to police officials.
A man has been killed by a great white shark of “dinosaur-like” proportions off a beach near Cape Town, South Africa.
Pope Benedict XVI has opted to turn the other cheek and yesterday met and forgave the woman who attacked him in Rome during Christmas Eve Mass.
French President Nicholas Sarkozy has put his full political backing behind a move to ban the full Islamic veil in the country saying it was “not welcome” for reasons of sexual equality.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has been asked to send a letter of apology to the Israeli people for “humiliating them in an unnecessary confrontation with Turkey”.
Radio1Haiti DJ Carel Pedré, 29, has broadcast an account of the devastating earthquake that rocked the capital Port-au-Prince on Tuesday leaving tens of thousands dead.
The chatter in the media these past few days seems to have borne out a W.E.B. DuBois observation -- "the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the […]
Of course you are: and you're in luck. In his Big Think interview this week, power and strategy expert Robert Greene ("The 48 Laws of Power," "The 50th Law") shares coolheaded, […]
You have probably been annoyed by how expensive and frustrating it can be to get health care. But you may also, like many people, assume that's the way health care […]
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Duke University Professor David Schanzer says President Obama has largely maintained the Bush administration's anti-terrorism tactics and personnel.
Ron Bluntschli, an American who works with Haitian farmers through the organization Beyond Borders, told me this story years ago: "When I lived in the country there was a family […]
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Communities that allow self-expression will gain an entrepreneurial edge.
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Companies need to provide something more than a cool work environment to attract the new creative class.
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Mass-production institutions have been broken for a generation now. Why doesn’t anyone want to fix them?
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Why the local programs and approaches developed by Mayors Michael Bloomberg and Cory Booker should be models for the rest of the world.
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The theorist of the "creative class" explains how the economic crisis has provided an "inflection point" that will generate a new class of thinkers.
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Our challenge is to improve the quality of service workers, says Richard Florida. Only then will we elevate jobs and create livelihoods for people.
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From hostile physicists to commenters who think they know more about string theory than Nobel laureates, Peter Woit describes the weird world of science blogging.
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Peter Woit believes that mathematicians and scientists are led astray by seeking "elegant" solutions. But there is one theorem that makes him wax poetic.