FEATURED COLUMN: @LIFE & CULTURE
Why Should We Even Care If the Government Is Collecting Our Data?
As people have tried to make sense of the recent revelations about the government's mass data-collection efforts, one classic text is experiencing a spike...
5 Maps That Show How Divided America Really Is
We've written before about why the American Community Survey is so valuable (and why periodic attempts by Congress to gut it are so foolish). The annual survey by...
There is no Such Thing as Invention
Calculus was invented twice, Natural Selection discovered twice and the telephone was patented twice. There’s a pattern of simultaneous invention throughout history that’s either an...
How America Lost Its Way
Not everyone is an entrepreneur. Still, everyone should try—if only once—to start a business. After all, it is small and medium enterprises that are...
The Top 10 Myths About Cloud Computing
While cloud computing has made huge strides in the past year toward becoming a mainstream business tool, lots of half-truths, mistruths, and good old-fashioned...
What Will Humans Look Like in 100,000 Years?
Think you're done evolving? You might want to think again. While homo sapiens has come a long way since the Stone Age, and modern...
Edward Snowden Have Had a Security Clearance?
Edward Snowden, the Booz Allen Hamilton employee who exposed the NSA’s massive phone and Internet snooping programs, was an outspoken advocate for digital freedom....
Opinion: Photography Has Ruined Travel
There is an addiction that has passed unnoticed into modern society, threatening to ensnare the minds of everyone reading this article, and more. It...
Maximizing Happy – What Happens When We Put Effort Toward Intangible Goals Like Happiness?
What happens when we put effort toward intangible goals like happiness? We do not expect to hit life milestones—getting a promotion, raising a child,...
The Science Delusion
When Richard Dawkins was named the world’s “Top Thinker” in a poll recently published by Prospect magazine, it was hard to avoid the suspicion...
