First, We Ban All the Commencement Speakers
The commencement speaker tradition is imploding on itself, and no one’s safe.Student protests have already shuttered would-be speeches from Condoleezza Rice, who was supposed to speak at Rutgers...
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Swarm and Fuzzy
When the first human colonists land on Mars several decades from now, their habitat will already be waiting. They may not even have to don a space suit, instead simply walking down the gangplank in...
View ArticleGOP Infighting in Georgia
Georgia Republicans vote on Tuesday to pick their party’s nominee for a race that could determine who controls the Senate next January. With five candidates polling between 10 and 25 percent, the...
View ArticleExpert: Rescuing Nigerian Girls is 'Unlikely and Unfeasible'
ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's hunt for more than 200 abducted schoolgirls is not all that it seems. In public, an international operation is gathering pace while behind the scenes, officials say it is...
View ArticleFCC Proposes New 'Net Neutrality' Rules
(Reuters) - U.S. telecommunications regulators on Thursday formally proposed new "net neutrality" rules that may let Internet service providers charge content companies for faster and more reliable...
View ArticleAnger Grows in Turkey After Mine Disaster Kills Hundreds
SOMA, Turkey (Reuters) - Loudspeakers broadcast the names of the dead as rows of graves were filled in this close-knit Turkish mining town on Thursday, while thousands protested in major cities as...
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Smoke Signals
In late August of last year, as bureaucrats in Colorado and Washington state were busy setting up legal marijuana markets, the U.S. Justice Department issued a memorandum to federal prosecutors across...
View Article'The Thing With Feathers' Reviewed
Bird’s the word for Noah Strycker. Once named the American Birding Association’s Young Birder of the Year, the 28-year-old ornithologist is a rising superstar in the birding community. He has traveled...
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Aquaponics Revives an Ancient Farming Technique to Feed the World
The wordsorganic farm typically conjure visions of abundant facial hair, leather jewelry and bug-infested vegetables. But Urban Organics blows that image right out of its tilapia-filled water. The...
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Take Two Herbs and Call Me in the Morning
China wants to rule the global pharmaceutical market and is mining its history to get there.This is a new and surprising goal. For much of the past 300 years, China has never really cared whether...
View ArticleSpanish Soccer: World Champions (of Fraud)
Spain goes to next month’s World Cup in Brazil as reigning champion, with a good chance of taking the trophy again. Yet the top Spanish soccer league is on its knees—crippled by billions of euros of...
View ArticleComputer Chips and Dip
In 1969, Honeywell tried to sell a Kitchen Computer, which was about as practical as a home nuclear reactor. It cost $10,600, weighed 100 pounds and came, the ad said, “complete with a two-week...
View ArticleHarvesting The Sun to Light the Streets of Cairo
Due to the preponderance of tall buildings lining narrow streets, many big-city dwellers spend their days mostly in shadows. Cairo, for example, is one of the world’s densest large cities, crisscrossed...
View ArticleVon Diaz Cooks Her Way Through Puerto Rican Cooking Classic 'Cocina Criolla'
“Meet me in front of Cuchifritos on 116th Street in Spanish Harlem,” texts Von Diaz. I arrive a few minutes early, and I’m pretty sure I’m in the wrong place. The window display in this takeout spot is...
View ArticleStarting 5: Kawhi Leonard, Masahiro Tanaka and Au Revoir, Boston
1. Spur of the MomentAs the squad's lone All-Star, Tony Parker, departed after 10 minutes and no points due to hamstring stiffness, San Antonio's Kawhi Leonard scored a team-high 22 points as San...
View ArticleNarendra Modi on Brink of Taking Power in India
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's election results on Friday could usher in the most profound economic change in a generation if opposition leader Narendra Modi wins a clear mandate for his agenda to...
View ArticlePerfectly-Preserved 12,000-Year-Old Skeleton Proves Bering Strait Theory
New research on one of the oldest and most complete American skeletons reveals further proof that all Native Americans descended from Siberian migrants who crossed a land bridge to North America...
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Today in Tabs: The Stuffed Moose Strikes Again
New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson was fired yesterday by the paper's owner Arthur Sulzberger Jr. in what was not so much a staff change as a beheading. This may seem like an odd choice for...
View ArticleThe Haunting Artifacts of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum
In a vast hall seven stories beneath Ground Zero, survivors and family of those who perished on September 11 gathered Thursday morning for the long-awaited dedication of the National September 11...
View ArticleHuge Win for Narendra Modi, India's Next Prime Minister
(Reuters) - Opposition candidate Narendra Modi will be the next prime minister of India, with counting trends showing the pro-business Hindu nationalist and his party headed for the most resounding...
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