On 22 September 2010, the wallet of Tyler Clementi - a gay freshman at Rutgers University - was found on the George Washington Bridge; his body was found in the Hudson River the following week. His roommate, Dharun Ravi, was charged with 15 criminal counts, including invasion of privacy, bias...
Laura Prudom | Posted April 24, 2012
Finally, after what felt like 75 weeks of auditions, "American Idol" has revealed its Top 24. Though none of them really struck me as breakout stars, all fall somewhere between competent and impressive ... although I'm still not feeling particularly invested in seeing any of...
Cecilia T. Capers | Posted April 24, 2012
During this Black History Month, Haitian-American philanthropist and businessman, Fabrice J. Armand is focusing his time and energy on planning his 30th birthday. Unlike most of his peers who typically celebrate such a milestone by throwing a fabulous fete, Fabrice has committed himself to an unselfish purpose. Inspired by famous...
Todd McCandless | Posted April 24, 2012
Technology partners... an important facet for many businesses and now Formula One has an official partner in which to grow. The Tata Communications group have announced a technical partnership with Formula One and will provide hosting, broadband and circuit connectivity for the series at each race. Here is the presser:
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James A. Shapiro | Posted April 24, 2012
My post last week elicited a number of sharply critical comments from conventional evolutionary thinkers, most notably from my University of Chicago colleague Jerry Coyne on his Why Evolution Is True website. Let me respond and add four additional points.
1. The comments from Jerry Coyne and other...
Candance L. Greene | Posted April 24, 2012
There is a disturbing new trend involving youth that is the new "it" thing on YouTube. Pre-teen and teenage kids, mostly girls, are uploading videos of themselves asking the question, "Do you think I'm pretty?" This may seem harmless to those children who are posting these videos, but what they...
Wray Herbert | Posted April 24, 2012
My very first classroom teacher had a long wooden pointer, and she wielded it like a weapon. At least that's my gauzy recollection. Many of the lessons were written on the blackboard, and she would use her pointer to direct our attention to this or that bit of information. She...
Fern Siegel | Posted April 24, 2012
What strikes audiences immediately at the compelling CSC production of Brecht's Galileo is how modern it feels.
Galileo Galilei (F. Murray Abraham) is a famed mathematician and astronomer who uses his telescope to support heliocentrism, the theory that the Earth revolves around the Sun. His teachings are revolutionary --...
Anais Rassat | Posted April 24, 2012
This Nature blog post reports on some possible sources of error that may rule out the problem of the superluminal neutrinos reported by the OPERA team earlier in September 2011.
The neutrinos are subatomic particles produced at CERN near Geneva that arrive 2.4 milliseconds later in Italy after...
Taryn Westberg | Posted April 24, 2012
Imagine this: One night, after a few margaritas, you drift into a blissful dream on the sofa. It's your wedding day, you're standing in front of all your favorite people in the world holding hands with your beloved (who's completely naked, but who cares. It's your dream and *you* look...
Laura Campbell | Posted April 24, 2012
I was thrilled to see that Oprah hosted a two hour special of her Next Chapter series with the man who truly changed my life after divorce, Tony Robbins.
The first hour of the special followed Oprah as she experienced Tony's signature event, "Unleash the Power Within." It...
Mark Morford | Posted April 24, 2012
Often in the midst of my second glass of whisky do I ponder how it can be that seemingly savvy and knowledgeable people, people who clearly know better, people who you sense have a modicum of wisdom and perspective despite steaming piles of evidence to the contrary, so brutally decide...
Ted Danson | Posted April 24, 2012
This week, 200 of the world's leaders in ocean conservation are descending upon Capella, Singapore for the World Oceans Summit.
The U.S. is strongly represented among the international community, with top representatives from government and nonprofits. Oceana is joining world leaders from Iceland, Singapore, Indonesia, and the...
Wayne Besen | Posted April 24, 2012
When people think of anti-gay places, the gay mecca of New York City does not often come to mind. However, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish community is a hotbed of homophobia, where LGBT people are shunned, abused, rejected, and told they must change their sexual orientation to be accepted.
Chaim Levin, 22,...
Bernard Starr | Posted April 24, 2012
New York City provided it during the Great Depression. America offered it to veterans after World War II. We need it today: Free College. Yes, I mean a tuition free college education for all qualified students. And there's a way to do it without a government...
Graeme Keeton | Posted April 24, 2012
Remember how every year since the mid-nineties, the (un)official start of Christmas was marked for many of us, by a train of red Coca-Cola trucks, rolling through snowy Americatown to a soundtrack of sleigh bells and carol singers? That's arguably one of the most successful television adverts in...
Meg Wolff | Posted April 24, 2012
Last week when my family and I were getting ready to drive back to Maine from New York City, we were looking for a quick and fairly healthy plant-based meal for lunch. While I was packing, my husband Tom said, "Why don't I just go over to Chipolte and grab...
Mike Ryan | Posted April 24, 2012
At long last, Paul Rudd (The Object of My Affection) and Jennifer Aniston (The Object of My Affection) have teamed up for a new comedy, Wanderlust, in theaters today. As always, we answer every question that you could possibly have about Wanderlust.
Q: Am I stupid because...
David Isenberg | Posted April 24, 2012
This is the third installment of documentation released to me by the State Department, pursuant to a past FOIA request. For background see Part 1.
Many people would say that it is unfair to judge someone's past record by one failure or mistake. I agree with that. Who...
Susana Novo Vázquez | Posted April 24, 2012
It's been more than a year since Adele released her second album, 21, in the UK, but he run seems unstoppable. In the past couple of weeks, she won six Grammy Awards, the highest amount by a female in one ceremony (tied...
Marty Robins | Posted April 24, 2012
Amidst all of the controversy surrounding Sen. Rick Santorum's apparent rise in the polls is one fundamental question: Are any of his core beliefs important to the country or to enough voters to matter? Senator Santorum makes no secret of his emphasis on social issues such as gay marriage, contraception,...
Dominic Carter | Posted April 24, 2012
By now almost all of America knows Roland Martin, the CNN analyst, on Super Bowl Sunday sent out a tweet criticizing a TV commercial featuring soccer star David Beckham in his underwear. Martin said, "Ain't no real bruhs going to H&M to buy some damn David Beckham underwear!... If a...
Daphne Wysham | Posted April 24, 2012
I recently returned to my childhood home in India with my siblings for a final walk down memory lane with my elderly mother. As expected, it was a powerfully emotional experience. But in ways unexpected, it brought home to me how our planetary fever -- climate change -- is inflicting...
Gavin Gibbons | Posted April 24, 2012
In a recent Huffington Post column, Greenpeace Board Member Jeffrey Hollander writes, "Canned tuna is not a product generally synonymous with innovation." This is rich coming from an organization that has been using the same pressure tactics, often based on hyperbole and outright lies, for the...
Ilana Ross | Posted April 24, 2012
"What is it about the Twentysomethings?" -- New York Times Magazine
"I think a lot of twentysomethings are out there looking for the dream job when really, they need to buckle down and just take a job, get some work, and get started."
-- Lise...
David Misch | Posted April 24, 2012
Let me introduce myself. I am a deciduous oak, born around 1996. I live in Iowa, in a suburban area where there are thousands of trees. Although the winters are long...
Jared Bernstein | Posted April 24, 2012
Let's take a well-deserved break from manufacturing and tax policy and cheer things up with a post on threats to the current recovery.
As I've stressed, in my humble opinion we're not yet into the virtuous cycle where we can count on above-trend growth to generate jobs, which boosts paychecks,...
Melanie Notkin | Posted April 24, 2012
We all know that going through infertility treatments can be incredibly challenging for couples. But single women who yearn to be mothers go through their own heartache. They are waiting for their future life partner to come into their lives before they can even begin to try to conceive. While...
Jamie Lewis | Posted April 24, 2012
Irving Kirsch of Harvard Medical School has certainly reignited debate in regards to antidepressants and placebos following his stint on CBS's 60 Minutes.
The prestigious medical school's Director of Placebo Studies has apparently run out of other drugs to look at under a microscope and taken a swipe at...
Michael Nuciforo | Posted April 24, 2012
Are all banks really mean?
You're all familiar with the bell curve right? I'm sure you remember studying it at school. More formally known as the theory of normal distribution, it is used in statistical analysis to reflect the distribution of a set of data. In can be used...
Kate Robertson | Posted April 24, 2012
This past Tuesday in 84 countries young people took to the streets, and their phones and computers to tell the rest of us that we're failing them. They said it was a Wake Up Call. I'm sympathetic. As a mother and one of those global leaders...
Simon Cohen | Posted April 24, 2012
Would the Sun have survived the hacking scandal if the News of the World had been called the Sun on Sunday (SOS)?
Probably not. The closeness of brand The Sun to the doomed Sun on Sunday would have sounded the death knell for the daily tabloid, forever linked with...
Paul Carey | Posted April 24, 2012
So Adele wows the Brits once more, gets kicked off to make way for an okay performance from Blur (aside from the drummer who was ace) and the guitarist who played that Song 2 riff well and the other one who was good on backing woo-hoos. Next we...
Andrew Bloxham | Posted April 24, 2012
Let me begin my first HuffPost UK blog entry by congratulating the England cricket team on their completion of a 4-0 One Day International (ODI) series trouncing of Pakistan in Dubai on Tuesday.
England and ODI cricket are rather akin to politicians and honest expense claims; they rarely go together,...
James Moran | Posted April 24, 2012
James Moran's job is to watch films so you don't have to - and he doesn't even watch them, so everyone's happy.
This week, he uses his no-compromises, no-facts approach to preview some upcoming releases for 2012.
Resident Evil 9
In a post-post-zombie apocalypse world, a series of fit...
Oscar Holland | Posted April 24, 2012
The Trades Union Congress (TUC) estimates that British workers collectively perform 1,968 million hours of unpaid overtime a year, meaning that this morning marks a momentous occasion in many people's calendars.
The reason? Because when these hours are totalled up, today marks the time when the average person who...
Anthony Murtagh | Posted April 24, 2012
With every passing week this government appears to increasingly reveal that it is the most out of touch in recent memory; they just never seem to quite get it. This time it's Cameron incongruously labelling the current mood of anger as "anti-business snobbery" - just who is he kidding?
Cameron's...
Sarah Hadland | Posted April 24, 2012
In January I was incredibly privileged to be asked to go to Uganda and see the extraordinary work Sport Relief does out there.
Obviously I was expecting a trip like this to be pretty tough, but you really can't prepare yourself for an experience like this.
On the...
Emma Kenny | Posted April 24, 2012
From adding fuel to the fire of a disagreement, to causing us to say hurtful things to our partners, too much alcohol heightens paranoia, making us more likely to be jealous and act out on deep-rooted fears, with negative consequences. I have teamed up with alcohol education charity Drinkaware to...
Kate Allen | Posted April 24, 2012
It barely got a mention in international news reports, but on Sunday, four civilians were killed in the Shah Wali Kot district in southern Kandahar province in Afghanistan. They died after their vehicle triggered an explosion from a roadside bomb. One of those killed was a child. At...
Joe Harland | Posted April 24, 2012
Once upon a time everyone knew who was No. 1. My mates, my Mum and probably your Mum too - knew if Blur had beaten Oasis, and whether the Spice Girls had managed to get their sixth chart topper in a row.
Now that's no longer...
Michael Roth | Posted April 24, 2012
This week the Supreme Court voted to hear a challenge to the ability of colleges and universities to shape the racial and ethnic demographics of their student bodies. Currently, schools are allowed to use race as a factor among many others in achieving diversity for educational reasons. When the Court...
Liza Donnelly | Posted April 24, 2012
A few months ago, I was fortunate to be able to take a ride in an electric car. It was incredible, so simple. As I sat down to draw a cartoon this week, I was thinking about that ride and about car...
Nick Bain | Posted April 24, 2012
Being made to wait until menswear day can be torture for me. Day after day at London Fashion Week, wonderful creative pieces flow past me, all brilliant and all out of my reach unless I decide on a major shift in lifestyle. So any glimpse of something, anything I could...
Edward Goldman | Posted April 24, 2012
You read it right, today's headline for my Art Talk is, "Knicks Player's Ball Crosses Over into the Arts?" Please don't worry; yours truly has no plans to expand his art coverage into sports. But this morning, rushing through the Los Angeles Times, I almost spilled my coffee over the...
Thomas Beller | Posted April 24, 2012
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After dinner everyone repaired to the back where the pool was lit and ringed with burbling fountains. A stand of bamboo rose overhead. The couches and chairs were thick with deep cushions. It had been a magnificent dinner. Five couples. The ladies all dressed up and looking good. Moms...
Robert J. Feldman | Posted April 24, 2012
The Pines, as it is presently known, may be just one of a dozen or so towns on the barrier reef three miles south of Long Island. Most would describe it as the premier gay resort in the world. During this holiday season we would call it pure Paradise.
There...
Tim Gibbon | Posted April 24, 2012
Last week I looked at how a website should be periodically reviewed to ensure that it's ready to handle and manage business and promotion operations effectively. This week, the focus is what to consider before when getting to grips building a site. It may not be the first on the...
The Center for Public Integrity | Posted April 24, 2012
A super PAC supporting Mitt Romney has paid one of the Republican candidate's veteran fundraisers a fee of $1.9 million for...By Peter H. Stone, iWatch News
Elizabeth Boleman-Herring | Posted April 24, 2012
Well, OK: "Great"? I know, I know: my readers, the novel's readers, will be the judge of that, I hear you saying.
But, for me, it had to be that particular "aspirational adjective" because, in my generation of writers, we all saw ourselves writing...
Matthew Bode | Posted April 24, 2012
Not one month into my tenure as pastor at Spirit of Hope in Detroit, the first guest in our community kitchen came out to me with his positive HIV status that was threatening to develop into AIDS. It counts as one of the most humbling moments of my life. A...
Mason Inman | Posted April 24, 2012
A top climate researcher -- Peter Gleick, head of the Pacific Institute -- admitted he lied to obtain documents from the Heartland Institute, which he then leaked to media, revealing the organization's plans to challenge the scientific consensus on climate change.
Gleick resigned from...
Michael Coren | Posted April 24, 2012
A little about me: Three Jewish grand-parents, recipient of numerous awards from Jewish organizations, regarded as one of the most vociferous pro-Israel and pro-Jewish voices in Canadian media and -- best of all --receiver of daily death threats from assorted Islamic fanatics. Oh, and I was physically attacked at Toronto...
Dorie Clark | Posted April 24, 2012
We all want to build a sales pipeline. You know -- plant the marketing seeds, nurture them, and watch them bloom into lucrative clients six months, or a year, or five years from now. The best business relationships require trust, and can't be built overnight. And many marketing activities --...
Kiri Westby | Posted April 24, 2012
With the Academy Awards this weekend, the media is buzzing about Glenn Close's new film Albert Nobbs. Ms. Close and supporting actress Janet McTeer have both been nominated for their portrayal of women passing as men in 19th-century Ireland. Watching the trailer left me thinking about the lives...
Ari Hart | Posted April 24, 2012
I bought my first iPhone in January. After only a few short hours, I was hooked by the sleek design, ease of use, and power. After a few weeks, I couldn't remember life without it. And then, on my iPhone, I read the following email from SumOfUs:
"Every day, tens...
Jordana Zizmor | Posted April 24, 2012
With the opening of the new Seamless headquarters in Midtown I thought it would be meaningful and relevant to interview the CEO, Jonathan Zabusky. Seamless is an exciting company that's constantly innovating, and that is a reflection of Jonathan. Seamless makes it...
Jay Rubenstein | Posted April 24, 2012
Rick Santorum's description of President Obama's "phony theology" is by now famous. He immediately defended his choice of words by saying that they applied not to the president's religion but rather to radical environmentalists. Looking at what he said in context, the defense is, basically, sound....
Carole Mallory | Posted April 24, 2012
Jennifer Aniston deserves better material. Paul Rudd does as well. So what are they doing in this turkey? Sure it is produced by Judd Apatow, who produced Pineapple Express and Knocked up that were truly hilarious. Recently he achieved some praise for producing Bridesmaids, however the vulgarity of Bridesmaids bothered...
David Briggs | Posted April 24, 2012
Every congregation has them -- the husband who comes to church a few times a year with his religious spouse, the college student who attends services when she is home to please her parents, the Baby Boomers who are uneasy with services they consider too liberal or too conservative.
They...
Ami Fields-Meyer | Posted April 24, 2012
I had never seen anything like it. I'd only left class for a few minutes, but as I was about to turn the corner, something caught my eye. I stared, stalled in my tracks, into the classroom window in front of me. Through the half-drawn shades, I could just make...
Jerry Libbin | Posted April 24, 2012
Collaboration with Wyland brings students and community together in the name of art and conservation!
Coined as the "Marine Michelangelo," artist and conservationist Wyland has without a doubt earned the moniker. Boasting 100 monumental marine murals in 80 cities, of which the largest spans an impressive two miles...
Otaviano Canuto | Posted April 24, 2012
The state of the global economy is now more troubled than what most pundits had predicted. The great recession of 2007-09 has left permanent scars and the global recovery has lost steam. In the industrialized world, the Eurozone is struggling to save its common currency and avert an even larger...
Earl Martin Phalen | Posted April 24, 2012
It was 1989. Pediatricians and early childhood educators developed Reach Out and Read at Boston Medical Center. The concept was simple: During well-child checkups, doctors would deliver books to children and critical messages about the importance of reading aloud to parents.
Fast forward 23 years.
The concept...
Kingsley Dennis, Ph.D. | Posted April 24, 2012
As a civilization we are in the throes of living out an "endgame." No, not the endgame of our species or any similar dire situation, but the endgame of an era. For many of us living in the developed nations, we are witnessing the endgame of the Second Industrial Revolution....
Carol Pierson Holding | Posted April 24, 2012
Image Source: Michelle Landwehr (permission granted)
Last week, someone posing as a Heartland Institute board member persuaded one of its staff members to send to a "new email" a board package, which he then released to environmental activist websites. The package...
Adam Levin | Posted April 24, 2012
Opening my e-mail reminds me of walking through the bazaar of a third world open air market -- the pickpockets are everywhere. In the last 30 days I have received spam purporting to be from the Better Business Bureau, the Internal Revenue Service,...
David Wallechinsky | Posted April 24, 2012
I have to recuse myself from giving objective opinions of this year's animated shorts nominees because one of them, The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore, is so close to my heart that I'm not a proper judge of the others. First, here's a look at the other four.
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Roseanne Colletti | Posted April 24, 2012
New York Non-Stop's Roseanne Colletti is joined by Bonnie Fuller of HollywoodLife.com to countdown some of the most memorable and outrageous moments in Oscar history!
View more videos at: http://www.nbcnewyork.com.
Ellen Weinreb | Posted April 24, 2012
Occupy Inside, when the activist goes to work
Since the rise of Occupy Wall Street, antagonism towards the Man has risen in the employed as well as the unemployed. Employees are more likely now than ever to be frustrated by their employer, who can represent authority and bureaucracy....
Grant Calder | Posted April 24, 2012
In January and February, a number of colleges send e-mail to counselors with headings such as "Scholarships still available at - University" and "We've extended our deadline." I just received another with the subject line "Deadline Schmeadline." It went on to say -- Our Regular Decision application deadline came and...
Victor Stenger | Posted April 24, 2012
In September, an announcement from the CERN physics laboratory in Geneva caused headlines with the tentative report that neutrinos send from the lab to detector in Italy 770 kilometers away were measured to travel at a speed very slightly higher than the speed of light. This violated the speed limit...
Tom Murro | Posted April 24, 2012
The "Best in Couture" hit the Big Apple on Thursday Feb. 9, when New York Fashion Week kicked off its Fall 2012 season.
As a male, I must admit I tend to pay a bit more attention to the models than to...
Tanja Aitamurto | Posted April 24, 2012
In our family we have two takes on copyright issues and SOPA. These two approaches reflect the gap between digital and offline worlds.
Let's look at my case first. I'm a researcher, journalist and author, and I strongly support copyright. However, I would never apply the old-fashioned copyright to this...
Lubomir Kavalek | Posted April 24, 2012
In January 2004, I called Magnus Carlsen the Mozart of Chess for the first time. It was a spontaneous, last-minute decision to meet a deadline for my column in the Washington Post. The name was picked up immediately and spread around quickly. It was used, misused, overused. Even the television...
Saad Khan | Posted April 24, 2012
A little over 1.7 million Afghan refugees live in Pakistan. That is the official figure from the United Nations High Commission for Refugees. A statistic that is only half true. According to Pakistani government's counts, 2.15 million registered Afghan refugees are living in the country. It...
Jonathan D. Fitzgerald | Posted April 24, 2012
Yesterday, it happened. A student hit me with the question that many educators dread, "When are we ever going to use this in life?"
I love this question. I don't dread it at all. I eat it up.
I had just shown my freshman composition class part two of the...
David Boone | Posted April 24, 2012
This is part of our monthly series 'Mission: Accepted,' in partnership with Minds Matter, which chronicles the lives of three students as they apply for college in their senior year.
The college application process seems like it will never end. I thought when I hit the...
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted April 24, 2012
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IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: GOP presidential crazy train stops in Fantasy Land on gas prices; Big Oil fights to keep its taxpayer subsidies; Mine official...
Lisa Haugaard | Posted April 24, 2012
Just a few steps south of the U.S.-Mexico border, President Calderón unveiled a towering billboard last week wielding a message written in plain English: "No More Weapons!" Weighing over 3 tons, the billboard itself is made of seized firearms that have been chopped, melted and welded together. Visible...
Alanna Kaivalya | Posted April 24, 2012
We are witnessing a revolution. Or, rather, a necessary evolution in yoga. The events of the past few weeks have caused such a stir and a ruckus in the yoga community that even members of other yoga disciplines are starting to wonder about the efficacy of having only...
Andrea Metcalf | Posted April 24, 2012
Adults aren't the only ones who deal with high cholesterol. This weekend I met Jason Myers. He is 14 years old and ever since he can remember, he was told he had high cholesterol. He joked that he got all the "bad stuff" from his dad, like allergies and high...
Alexia Amvrazi | Posted April 24, 2012
Tear-gas
It starts with a tingle in the nose, like you're about to sneeze. Next, a stinging in the eyes, followed by a discomfort in the throat. Suddenly, your sinuses feel wiry, you sniffle and your eyes tear. The feeling in the throat becomes like a razor-deep, choking sensation, and...
Kristal Brent Zook | Posted April 24, 2012
Last February, my husband and I decided -- on a whim really -- to relocate from Manhattan to the suburbs of Long Island.
"Why not leave the city?" we asked ourselves. It seemed like a good idea at the time. Get some fresh air. A yard. A real house. It...
Lisa Steinberg | Posted April 24, 2012
Every Thursday night in my house used to be known as The Office night and no one was allowed to call during that time. We'd all sit on the couch in front of the TV in order to watch Steve Carell and his merry band of misfits on The Office...
Randy DeCleene | Posted April 24, 2012
Grab your change purses, boys and girls, because a forced transition to the $1 coin may be upon us.
At present, Congress is considering legislation that would see the $1 bill replaced -- wiped out permanently -- by a coin. A heavy, clunky, painfully old-fashioned coin that, if adopted, will...
Vlad Chituc | Posted April 24, 2012
I walked into Commons early yesterday morning and saw blue-gray smears dotting the foreheads of a handful of my classmates. I'm embarrassed to admit that I was strangely surprised. Of course, I knew that it was Ash Wednesday. I knew that the beads and colored drinks from last night's Feb...
Doug Peddicord | Posted April 24, 2012
"Doing what's right isn't the problem. It's knowing what's right." These words, spoken by Lyndon Johnson, could apply to the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) which is clearly trying to "do right" but, to date, has shown little evidence that it knows what's right.
PCORI was created under President Obama's...
Ramon Nuez | Posted April 24, 2012
I was very unfamiliar with crowdsourcing -- that is until I met Epirot Ludvik Nekaj, CEO and Founder of Ludvik+Partners. I first met Epi through a mutual friend -- Ted Rubin. I remember Ted telling me that Epirot is someone I need to know and...
Dr. Veronica Anderson | Posted April 24, 2012
We've heard it hundreds of times -- "feeding baby pureed food is best." In fact, mothers that do puree "adult" foods and pass it on to their weaning babies usually proudly declare they are doing "what's best for the child." What's more, compared to other mothers that choose processed and...
Gavin Shulman | Posted April 24, 2012
In this messy, mammoth, modern, multi-dimensional media environment it can sometimes leave a writer wondering: who am I?
I could be a blogger. Dropping disposable bits of my life on to the Internet. A diary of life's diarrhea. A living diorama. A list of everywhere I've dined. I could...
Leslie Gerwin | Posted April 24, 2012
"VIRUS SPREADS AT TWO COLLEGES" screamed the boldface headline on the front page of a recent Times of Trenton in New Jersey. For those encountering this alarming story for the first time, there was at least some reassurance: the smaller boldface subheading announced, "Officials say contagion's peaked." Anyone...
Christina Pirello | Posted April 24, 2012
In the movie, To Sir with Love, Sidney Poitier comes to the conclusion that education, as it was being applied in his situation... just wasn't working.
He took matters into his own hands and decided to teach his students the basic facts of life, with lessons they would need...
Phil Ting | Posted April 24, 2012
The new $26 billion mortgage settlement agreement between state attorneys general and major banks will help make restitution to millions of homeowners defrauded and damaged by lenders. But justice requires more than compensating the past victims -- we must protect Californians from future abuse, improve laws regulating foreclosure...
Gina Hall | Posted April 24, 2012
Much has been made in recent weeks in the New York Times over the exploitation of intern labor, which is certainly a problem in the entertainment industry. Since I started out as an intern and have since been witness to really valuable internships and really crappy ones, I...
Riva Greenberg | Posted April 24, 2012
An unexpected diagnosis
7:08 a.m. -- 56 mg/dl (3.1 mmol/l)
I don't know the date I was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, as so many of my peers do. But I do know this month marks my 40th year with diabetes.
I got it when I was 18 in...
Judge H. Lee Sarokin | Posted April 24, 2012
I am mindful of how Vice President Dan Quayle was mocked for criticizing Murphy Brown, a fictional TV character, for choosing to have a baby as a single mother. He suggested the program contributed to the "poverty of values," which, in turn, caused the 1992 Los Angeles riots. Nonetheless, I...
Soren Petersen | Posted April 24, 2012
Creative individuals and their entrepreneurial ventures are characterized by enormous profit potential as well as huge market and execution risk. Get the formula right and align with Picasso, Madonna, Spielberg and Jobs. Otherwise, the average American starving artist makes less than $23,000 a year (U.S. Census Bureau 2008.) Smart governments...
Carol Hartsell | Posted April 24, 2012
You know all of those comedy shows, movies, books, specials, albums and podcasts that your friends can't believe you haven't seen and which they swear will change your life?
Well, we've got a long list of them, too. So we're taking a cue from our friends...
David McMillan | Posted April 24, 2012
Recently, two teenage girls in Gainesville, Florida made a video (note: NSFW) in which they spewed a truckload of racist comments. They posted the video on YouTube and subsequently ruined their lives. It took all of fourteen minutes. (Actually, probably twenty, if you account for the time it took...
danah boyd | Posted April 24, 2012