Before we are granted a driver's license in the U.S., we undergo extensive testing to make sure we're not a danger to ourselves or others on the road -- injuring or killing oneself or another with a car is accidental, and yet we have elaborate theoretical and practical tests in...

With a less-than-stellar end to the Qatar climate talks, and with all eyes on the U.S. for more ambitious commitments ahead of the next round, it is more important than ever for the American public to be better educated on the dire implications of a rapidly warming world.

In addition to the $2 billion spent this election cycle, the Barack Obama and Mitt Romney campaigns have also been feverishly crunching numbers that have nothing to do with dollars. There's another entity that's proving just as big in this presidential election: big data. However, considering both campaigns...

Imagine a newsroom with hundreds of robots typing away news stories on computers. No, this is not actually happening -- at least not yet. But this is where journalism with its demand for unreasonable levels of objectivity appears to be headed.

People are incapable of being devoid of opinions...

The recent Jonah Lehrer incident sheds light on a problem that's commonplace in science journalism today. Jonah Lehrer is unquestionably a brilliant writer and fluid storyteller, but let's face it: The reason he jumped to the top echelons of the media landscape in so short a time at such a...

Type in "Delete yourself from the Internet" on Google and a dozen sites pop up to give you a crash course on the many ways in which you can delete yourself permanently from the World Wide Web, along with the hundreds of embarrassing photos, offensive comments, and humiliating tirades posted...

How bad is broadcast journalism in America? So bad that it takes a TV drama, not to mention a daily lineup of late-night comedians, to point out its absurdity.

Aaron Sorkin's The Newsroom premiered to mixed reviews last weekend. But despite the harshly-doled-out and well-deserved...

Unless you've been living under a rock -- or well, Facebook bubble -- the last few years, you've heard the story of the woman that posted suicidal thoughts on Facebook and ended up killing herself, uninterceped by her "friends."

Unfortunately, that was no solitary case.

When starting to write this blog post I had to settle myself in a secluded corner of the coffee shop, avoiding all danger of 'external stimulation.' Other than the caffeine, of course.

I belong to that third to a half of the population that prefers to work in solitude, doesn't...

How many of you chose to type your symptoms into a Google search box instead of picking up the phone and calling your doctor's office the last time you felt under the weather? Chances are, if you have access to a computer -- and if you're reading this, you probably...

The aftermath of the Australian Open -- as well as the exceedingly long men's final that brought it to a close -- makes this as good a time as any to focus on the long drawn-out tennis season that follows the first major of the year.

Several...

As the number of hours we spend in virtual communities begins to surpass the amount of time spent in offline interactions, as social media rapidly becomes the most predominant channel of communication, as people increasingly choose virtual games over real playing fields, the electronic innards of computers everywhere are gradually...

Anyone that has worked in a research lab has at some point or other typed in a dozen combinations of key words in a Google search box to find a source for that elusive but crucial reagent, and sifted through scores of irrelevant page results before finally giving up.

Last week, Wired reported that In-Q-Tel, the CIA's technology arm, is investing in Visible Technologies, the social-media monitoring company, which tracks over half a million Web sites everyday. Many of the sites that the company surveys include blogs, online forums and open social networks, which can render public opinion...

A few weeks ago, while having issues with my cable service, Comcast became my rightful target for a string of disapproving tweets. They didn't go unnoticed. "@ComcastBill" responded to my complaints, and asked if there was any way he could help. I did not seek his advice or...

The tennis world breathed a collective sigh of relief, when after one of the most painful losses of his career, Andy Roddick sent out an upbeat message to over one hundred thousand followers on Twitter.

Defying the laws of grammar and just barely keeping to the more stringent...