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Some in America find their only path to healthcare is to manipulate the system, whether than means always going to emergency room or committing crimes to receive medical attention.

A new study out of Finland has found that having a boy may shorten mothers' lifespans for biological and environmental reasons. Researchers will now look for more current data. 

By studying how viruses work in plants, biologists are coming to see that far more species are symbiotic than purely independent. In other words, viruses can confer benefits on plants. 

Creating full citizenship isn't about getting people from 0 to 60. It's about everything in between. If 60 is voting and most people are at 10, Rishi Jaitly says it […]

Full citizenship is the idea in which all members of society see themselves as change agents. 

In yet another nod to its country's aging population, Japan's Fujitsu presented at this week's Mobile World Congress conference a prototype of a cane containing 21st-century technology.

Software company Opower teams with utilities to provide customers with reports showing how well they're doing compared to their neighbors. These and other small nudges have worked to reduce costs as well as environmental impacts.

The second-largest desert city also has exceptionally high levels of humidity, which the billboard converts into water that citizens can access via a simple spigot.

In a new study at the journal BMC Medical Ethics, my colleague Declan Fahy and I analyze the journalistic and critical reception of Rebecca Skloot's 2010 best-selling book The Immortal Life of […]

This brings me to an ancient Greek, the master himself, Socrates of Athens. In a segment of Gorgias that foresees decades of modern psychological research, the erudite interlocutor observes that […]

The project is designed to make recycling as simple as possible by taking the sorting process out of the hands of residents and putting it into those of various companies.

Peter Gabriel and Vint Cerf are two of the people behind the proposed Interspecies Internet, a platform that is exactly what it sounds like.

Before the end of the Second World War, officials from the Allied nations met up at a resort town in New Hampshire to create a new economic order for the […]

1. “First the pope and now Andrew Mason!?!"  Andrew Mason continued the popular Silicon Valley "I’ve just been fired" meme with a blunt note to employees at Groupon: "After four and a […]

A little over a year ago, I wrote aboutThe Herb Block Foundation’s gloom and doom report titled The Golden Age for Editorial Cartoonists at the Nation’s Newspapers is Over. Founded […]

Here's a published dialogue that I did with my friend Deepak Chopra in which we discuss the challenges of standing up for Spirit in a secular culture. Enjoy! __________________________________ ANDREW […]

Do we think it is possible for kids to learn to read on their own? A dispatch from a big bold idea in progress.   

Cynthia Breazeal showcases "an idea in its formation," that is, providing children in remote areas with tablets and learning apps that could enable them to teach themselves how to read.

In a column this week at Time magazine, Michael Grunwald says he's on the side of activists who oppose the XL Tar Sands pipeline and chides the "respectable centrist pundits" […]

I had to plumb memories of a SchoolHouse Rock video this morning to sort out exactly what was so out of place at the Supreme Court during Wednesday morning’s oral […]