Everything is context. Take the bus driver off the bus, the waiter out of the restaurant, your child's teacher out of the classroom, and the question when you both meet on the street might be: "I think I know you..."

Now imagine if you shaved your head and walked...

Joan of Arc, the French martyr, military heroine and symbol of French nationalism was canonized as Saint Joan. In similar fashion, will Judge Debbie O'Dell-Seneca, of the Washington County Court of Common Pleas in Pennsylvania, be known as "Saint Debbie," for her historic ruling that corporations are not "persons." They...

In his freshman year, Stanford engineering student Daniel Haarburger launched a successful project on Kickstarter. He asked for $9,500 and raised $60,000 in 30 days. With a simple, low-cost thumb-size device, he found a way to turn any handheld device into a desktop computer by linking it to a wireless...

Tweetie and Sweetie are parakeets. Sweetie is the one wearing blue feathers. They are love birds who sleep in a cage at night, and fly free in the house during the daytime. When hungry, they hop back into the cage to...

If you're a woman who is graduating from college this Spring and ready to travel the world, here's some good news. The glass ceiling that has been keeping women from rising to the top of senior management in the U.S. is shattering in emerging economies around the globe.

According...

Outdoors, in mid-January, the temperatures reminded that it was still wintertime. Yet indoors, standing in a pool of sunlight, the woman in her 50's with a towel wrapped in a turban around her head had a smile on her face. She held up her newly manicured nails for everyone to...

TechCrunch calls this year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) the year of the "Gadget start-up" - but the new model -- young, underage designers launching on Kickstarter, such as Wingstand's Daniel Haarburger, or high-tech teens planning to retire rich at 21 may have to find a new way to get noticed.

If British business magnet, and island owner Sir Richard Branson were to give advice to New York City's Mayor Bloomberg, he might offer him this climate change insight: "Do what I do. First assess your energy needs, then act like an island. Why? When hurricanes like 'Frankenstorm' happen,...

Susan Rice is in step with the times. What has been overlooked in the firestorm of criticism coming from Republican Senators, mostly white males, is this. When under stress, men are hardwired to fight; women are hardwired to defuse conflict. If our foreign policy goal is to move away from...

The good news is that three more women were added to the United States Senate in this month's national elections, and six more women were added to the House. Should we celebrate this political victory for women? Of course, and then we should take a closer look at...

If Rachael Carson, the author of Silent Spring, is widely credited with launching the environmental movement in America, who might get the credit for ending the fossil fuel era? Does the name Josh Fox come to mind? The film Gasland? Or the term "fracking?"

Gasland is the name of the...

Does social media now rule politics? When a middle aged woman, potentially jealous about the attention her partner was paying to another woman, composed a two-word, carefully timed message and released it on Twitter, who could have predicted its impact on recent French elections?

The tweet created a firestorm...

As an expert on the new science of a woman's brain and its hardwired leadership traits, I have been following the rise of France's new president, Francois Hollande with great interest. A consensus-builder, Hollande's circle of advisers now includes both his companion, Paris Match reporter, and new French first lady,...

Just before graduation, as Saba Gul was finishing up her master's degree in computer science at MIT, she went to hear a woman talking about schools in Pakistan. The one story that really moved her was about a young girl who was not allowed to go to school because she...

Boulder, tagged as the brainiest, healthiest, and smartest city in America has also been called one of the "worst dressed" cities by GQ magazine. Could the GQ tag, "worst dressed," have something to do with the fact that Boulder residents take their active lifestyle seriously and that it...

In the world of today's entrepreneurs, the term IQ doesn't refer to how intelligent one is. Instead, it refers to the Innovation Quotient of companies with innovative new products or services. Over the past 11 years in Boulder, winners of the IQ Awards have included DigitalGlobe and...

I woke up this morning thinking about WINGStand. Could a single $20 thumb-sized product forever change the way we use computers?

Fifty years ago, IBM thought it could only sell 25 mainframe computers. These early computers filled up an entire room, and took untold amounts of materials, manufacturing and...

The lynx had traveled three times down the Rocky Mountain States from Canada to Colorado to mate, before it was shot, on a return trip home to Alberta. "I've never shot a lynx with a collar before," said the trapper who handed its tracking collar over to authorities. To Canadian...

When he was 8 years old, Xiuhtezcatl, a young Aztec boy, took to the stage and made a passionate plea for the environment. Now 10-years-old and strikingly powerful in his presence, he is one of thousands of youth who are linking up around the world, via IMatter and...

While the world news media has shifted its attention elsewhere, tragedy continues to unfold at Tokyo Electric Power's crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear reactor. The Japan Times reports that several workers have received overexposure to radiation. They also report that the U.S.-based Physicians for Social Responsibility...