If Apples HyperCard was alive this year it would be 25-years-old. Ars Technica has a wonderful retrospective on HyperCard, that reminds us what it was all about and its critical place in Internet his...
The insufficient job creation, stagnant earnings and alarming long-term unemployment highlighted by Mays disheartening jobs report underscore Americas persistent unemployment crisis. The numbers also...
One year ago, on the second anniversary of President Obamas historic Cairo University address to the Muslim World, we released the results of our 2011 Arab World polling. The findings were devastatin...
He who controls the meaning of words defines the debate. George Orwell, among others, understood this very well. All animals are equal. Some are more equal than others," for example. When ideolog...
Timeless glamor, fascinating tales and a touch of intrigue, the British royal residences reflect everything that draws us to the royals themselves. To wander down their halls is to walk in the footst...
"Its not what you call me, but what I answer to." --African proverb Although a decade has passed since Sept. 11, 2001, and the world has been abuzz about Islam and what it means since then, i...
On May 7, 2012 the Robin Hood Foundation, the largest private funder of anti-poverty programs, sponsored an important gathering aboard the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York City. The hig...
In December 2009, my friend Arianna Huffington called with this idea to educate "ordinary" people about the financial system. At the time, I directed Institutional Risk Analytics to prepare a...
This post originally appeared on Strength.org Today I had the privilege of delivering the commencement address at Bronx Community College. The speech was an opportunity to share the success of No Kid...
"Dont slouch." "Sit still." "Dont hunch your back." "Stand up straight." "Stop fidgeting." At some point in almost everyones teen years, a well-meaning parent ...
A paper in this weeks Nature Climate Change reinforces a really important insight about the limits of our ability to reason and think rationally. Its another blow to the crumbling ramparts of the bel...
By now many of us have probably heard the news: New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg plans a ban on a sugary drinks larger than 16oz. The story was carried in full in yesterdays New York Times. T...
Big Oil and the Canadian government are showing their true colors these days, and what an ugly spectacle it is. Not content to squeeze tar sands oil profits from Canadas boreal forest, the industry a...
UCLA is once more in the news but this time its because they offered Sean "Diddy" Combss son Justin an athletic scholarship worth $54,000.00. Here is a student that is a talented football pla...
First off, let me make this clear: at 41, I am profoundly grateful that I am about to become a first-time mother. At nine months pregnant, I love my son already. This kid has been prayed for and paid...
"Let me know if you cant hear me." Weve all heard it -- or didnt hear it. If we heard it, we didnt need to hear it and nothing changed. If we didnt hear it, we needed to hear it, and nothing ...
With NATOs recent meeting in Chicago building consensus on critical next steps vis-a-vis anticipated withdrawals and deadlines, discussion of the development agenda post-withdrawal in Afghanistan mus...
In a week where a horrific act of violence turned into a zombie meme within a matter of minutes, we need to be reminded that there are good things in the world; positive things that are to be enjoyed...
All of the pre-IPO hype and post-IPO letdown completely misses the point when it comes to Facebook. Although Wall Street may see it differently, Facebooks main task is not about making a quick buck. ...
Mention Miami this week and the first thing people will talk about is the "zombie" attack. What they are obviously referring to is the gruesome near-killing of Ronald Poppo by Rudy Eugene, wh...
I just returned from the "2012 International Parliamentarians Conference on the Implementation of the ICPD Programme of Action," an international conference in Istanbul focused on the global ...
I think Mayor Michael Bloomberg is right. At least in spirit. The need to understand and then decisively act upon the latest findings regarding sugar consumption, diabetes, overall nutritional guidel...
Research in neuroscience has revealed a startling fact that revolutionizes much of what we humans have previously taken for granted about our interactions with the world outside our heads: Our consci...
We had the perfect headline all picked out for this piece but our colleague Paul Waldman at The American Prospect magazine beat us to the punch: "Its Hard Out There for a Billionaire." You se...
In life, when things seem like a close call in debating whether to take a job or move somewhere or dive deeper into a relationship, we look for a signal of which way to go. In facing really difficult...
David Ignatius gripping novels are quickly emerging as the spy industrys top smart, complex intelligence yarns to read on long flights. His made-for-movies stories seem to be a hybridization of...
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg made big news on Wednesday with his proposed ban on large serving sweetened drinks. The New York Daily News labels the mayor "a big soda scrooge" while t...
Because of gender bias and sex discrimination, there are an estimated 160,000,000 girls and women missing from the planet today. This isnt man-bashing or "victim feminism," by the way. Its ju...
The White House must be telling itself there are still five months between now and Election Day, so the jobs picture could brighten. After all, we went through a similar mid-year slump in 2011 but ca...
When the first headline of the day that you read is "JOBS REPORT DISTASTER" and that headline is on The Huffington Post, thats not good news. Heres my own suggested playlist to take this econ...
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