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Bright sunny Wednesday here in Ohio made all the better upon hearing that the miners trapped in the Chilean mine have started to make their way – one by one […]

Something I wrote for this week's edition of the Weekly Pulse health care newsletter. The gimmicky, pink breast cancer "awareness" stunts are getting old.  October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. […]

Hearing Sutherland at the Met: "It was...a reminder of how an exceptional gift, carefully developed and generously used, changed the operatic landscape."

"This research is an important reminder that the unconscious is smarter than we can comprehend, as it processes vast amounts of information in parallel."

"In the last few weeks, four young gay men have committed suicide, all in some way connected to fear, shame or isolation around the issue of their homosexuality."

Gawker began as a media-gossip site devoted to 'radical Manhattanism,' and has since morphed into a world view for the blogging generation.

Nathaniel James, Community Engagement Specialist at the Mozilla Foundation, spoke at American University yesterday about Mozilla’s “disruptive” plans to keep the internet open and accessible -- plans that could change […]

Much of the accepted wisdom on bullying is not only ineffective, it makes things worse. Advice to "just be nice", "don't be a tattletale" and "'just ignore them'" needs revisiting.

"It will never be a substitute for proper carbon-taxing, but eco-labelling is a development to be welcomed."

The recession has not torn young couples apart; it has pushed them closer together. Marriage and divorce rates have remained remarkably immune to the business cycle.

"Maintaining a diverse media is a crucial underpinning of democracy. As for Murdoch, the sun has shone and he has made hay. It is time he heard a regulator knocking at his door."

"In fairy tales, 'good' triumphs over 'evil,' but how this happens isn’t simple. It’s quite common for traditional fairy tales to have complicated, even troubling, conclusions."

Dating research shows that when we are free to choose our conversation topics we gravitate toward an easy to maintain balance that no one actually enjoys or benefits from.

Would it be a classic pearl handled six shooter? A double barreled shotgun with a hand carved stock? An AK-47 semi-automatic assault carbine with laser sights? Or would he simply […]

“What happens if a tree falls in a forest and no one hears it?” Willard Spiegelman asks intriguingly in a recent article in The Wall Street Journal. “What happens if […]

Excellent: City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and Councilwoman Jessica S. Lappin (D) have introduced legislation to require so-called "crisis pregnancy centers" in New York City to disclose that they are not […]

Tension was evident as humanists and atheists gathered this weekend, reported Mitchell Landsberg at the Los Angeles Times.  At issue among the attendees at the annual conference of the Council […]

New evidence from speed-dating trials helps untangle the reasons why segregation persists in dating and marriage.

Being a college professor has definitely made me realize how many students are "terrified" (their words) about math and science. Many have gotten the idea that you need to be […]

"American foreign policy stands on the brink of substantial belt-tightening." Professor of American Foreign Policy Michael Mandelbaum on the effects of the recession.