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A new study helps to answer the question raised in Thomas Nagel's 1974 philosophy essay "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?" A team of Chinese and British r...
Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 11.06.2009 | Living
Managers need to find ways to promote informal communication while minimizing destructive gossip and knife-in-the-back criticism that impairs relationships, lowers morale, and decreases productivity.
Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 11.04.2009 | Living
Does exercise really boost your immune system? Two new studies examine this connection and the results are not as clear cut as everyone would like to believe.
Scott de Marchi | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics
Talk and inaction are relatively cheap for US legislators, since their own health care plan will remain the same whether or not legislation passes. Political ideas need to have a cost.
Paula Crossfield | Posted 11.03.2009 | Green
A year after Obama's election, advocates hoping for deep improvements in our food system can point to only a few successes, while other policies that could lead to food insecurity are brewing in back rooms.
Jesse Jenkins | Posted 10.29.2009 | Green
Reid and the Senate now have the responsibility to ensure that long-term clean energy R&D efforts are given the funding they desperately need to secure America's leadership in clean energy innovation.
eSarcasm | Posted 10.28.2009 | Comedy
Now, they aren't actually talking about humans -- they're talking about plants and animals able to reproduce both by themselves and with others. But that doesn't make it any less amusing.
Jesse Jenkins | Posted 10.28.2009 | Green
While the bill is a (very) small step in the right direction, the clean energy R&D investments in Kerry-Boxer still fall far short of filling our energy innovation gap.
Medical News Today | Posted 10.25.2009 | Living
It's no wonder that many people feel extra soreness and aches in their backs during winter months -- they're often not getting enough vitamin D. The b...
Michael Kaplan | Posted 10.22.2009 | Entertainment
Our partners, our relatives, our neighbors and friends may not be glamorous or wealthy, but they can offer something that Angelina Jolie or Tom Cruise never can: they actually care about us.
Paula Crossfield | Posted 10.15.2009 | Green
After Tom Vilsack's speech, I've reached out to some key thinkers on agriculture to find out what they would like the USDA's new research body, NIFA, to be focusing on. Here are their answers.
Faisal J. Abbas | Posted 10.12.2009 | World
KAUST is the first university in Saudi Arabia to allow a mixed-gender environment. This has triggered a 'showdown' between the press and a senior member of the clergy.
Jesse Jenkins | Posted 10.10.2009 | Green
Downright paltry private-sector energy innovation spending leaves a massive energy innovation gap that the U.S. government barely begins to fill, investing only about $5 billion annually in energy R&D.
BBC NEWS | Victoria Gill | Posted 10.06.2009 | Green
Concrete bridges could make better roosts for certain species of bat than natural caves, according to research....
treehugger.com | Jaymi Heimbuch | Posted 10.05.2009 | Green
A new study by the University of Rochester found that after looking at nature scenes, people feel closer to their community, are willing to give more ...
Gerald Bracey | Posted 09.30.2009 | Media
Is a new study favoring charter schools remarkable? Are the results on charter schools in? The short answers are "no" and "no."
D. Brad Wright | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics
the relationship between low Medicare spending and the above average health outcomes seen at Mayo may simply be confounded by the nature of the patient population, which is healthier Read more at: http://editorial.huffingtonpost.com/tmp/individual-entry-archive86.html
USA Today | Matt Kelley | Posted 09.23.2009 | Media
A search of the agency's main index of the subjects of FBI investigations found some records tied to Cronkite's name were destroyed in October 2007, t...
Levi Novey | Posted 09.20.2009 | Green
The sales pitch for legislation needs to focus on America obtaining cheaper long-term energy from our own sources, creating steady jobs for Americans that pay well, and giving Americans a less polluted country.
Jesse Jenkins | Posted 09.18.2009 | Green
Modeled after the NIH, a New National Institutes of Energy (NIE) would be designed to most effectively channel R&D funding toward the development of new, low-cost commercial clean energy technologies.
Levi Novey | Posted 10.18.2009 | Green
Living and thriving in the most inhospitable conditions on Earth, tiny bacteria-like microbes known as extremophiles might soon have an over-sized effect on our human world.
The Sacramento Bee | Bill Lindelof | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics
The UC Davis Violence Prevention program will release a report today that claims guns shows are a major source of weapons used in crimes....
Sadie Nardini | Posted 09.19.2009 | Living
After 15 years of conversations with two types of people--those who crave personal growth, and those who don't, I have come to believe that for many people, there are some darn good reasons not to do yoga...
Ali A. Rizvi | Posted 09.03.2009 | Living
The best way to prevent HIV and other STIs -- whether you're circumcised, uncircumcised, gay, straight, male or female -- is through education and condom use.
Maria Rodale | Posted 09.24.2009 | Living
Aside from the fact that the nutritional content of just about ALL of our food has declined over the past 50 years, we are, as a rule, overfed. And good nutrition is available from many sources in our diet.
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The Guardian | Marc Abrahams | Posted 11.10.2009 | Green