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Are people naturally good or evil? How much of our mental life is unconscious? Are our desires hard-wired by evolution? On the evening of Monday, March 21st, renowned psychologist and […]

Two high-ranking ministers made headlines this week by falling out of line with the governments they represent. They are U.S. Ambassador to China, Jon Huntsman, and Libya's Ambassador to the U.S., Ali Ojli. 

Avenues: The World School, a exclusive school set to open in 2012 in New York City, will be one of the most forward-looking and global schools on the planet. But will this model fix America's educational system or just exacerbate inequalities?

It never ceases to amaze me how the media just loves to find bad in the good (or at least the interesting). I've seen a number of article or blog […]

When combat veterans tell their battle tales, the stories often are laced with themes of heroism, sacrifice and loyalty. But guilt also takes a heavy mental toll.

‘Will Egypt’s revolution spark a Domino Effect?’. Almost anywhere one looks for analysis of events, a metaphor stares back. But metaphors are no substitute for the generation of ideas.

Under pressure to improve its search results, Google has announced a "big algorithmic improvement" that, unlike other changes, could be noticeable to its users.

The ultradense core of an exploded star contains superfluids, a strange form of superconducting matter which exhibits remarkable properties such as climbing upwards.

Except for the fear of cancer, U.S. adults most fear getting Alzheimer's disease, but few make preparations for the onset of the disease, a survey indicates.

Scientists in the United States have found newborn mice can re-grow their own hearts. There's no reason to believe that the same window would not exist in the human heart.

Sailors used to struggle with it but migratory sea turtles have now proved capable of sensing longitude, using almost imperceptible gradients in Earth's magnetic field.

The U.S. Army illegally ordered a team of soldiers specializing in "psychological operations" to manipulate visiting American senators into providing more troops and funding for the war.

The question raised by the wave of protests spreading across the Middle East is not whether to deal with autocrats, but how to deal with them.

Twitter and Facebook may be the civil uprising tools du jour, but they certainly weren't the first. Photography galvanized support for the African American Civil Rights movement.

Paul Cézanne painted slowly. Very slowly. The fruit in his still lives would ripen and even rot as he worked. Hortense, first his mistress and later his wife, visibly suffers […]

The hip hop mogul doesn't like bosses, and therefore looks to hire people who like to get their hands dirty.

Listen, I'm too old to REALLY care about Lady Gaga.  But I've seen her on a couple of award shows and interviewed on SIXTY MINUTES.  I gotta admit it:  She […]

The problems facing the United States, from national debt to foreign policy, may be the result of having too many elections, according to economist Dambisa Moyo.

By 2100, more than half of the more than 7,000 languages spoken on Earth—many of them not yet recorded—may disappear, taking with them a wealth of knowledge.