Featured Articles
Posted 2009-02-24 14:00:00
It could be Key2SafeDriving, a new device that wirelessly links a cell phone and car key so your teenager can't call or text while driving.
Posted 2009-02-24 17:00:00
Professor Nalini Nadkarni enlists a Washington state prison in sustainability research that has turned the prison green — and may help convicts turn their lives around.
Posted 2009-02-24 17:00:00
A look at studies that highlight music's affect on memory, the sturdiness of beer bottles and, of course, French rap.
Posted 2009-02-26 17:45:00
Waiting for the Byrd to squawk, or how to tell if Congress and the White House are serious about fixing the economy.
Posted 2009-02-27 01:10:00
A nonprofit group is working to create the new Rwanda, made by orphans.
Posted 2009-02-27 17:15:00
The consistent correlation between women executives and high profitability.
Posted 2009-03-03 16:55:00
A trade case with Canada highlights the evidence linking everyday products to the feminization and outright disappearance of males from every species — including ours.
Posted 2009-03-04 16:30:00
Amid severe economic gloom, some top executives take a pay cut, but it's unclear how widely the salary correction will spread.
Posted 2009-03-09 16:00:00
It's not sexy enough to make a Grey's Anatomy episode, but better primary health care would save a lot of money — and lives.
Posted 2009-03-11 16:25:00
If you're looking for someone to blame for the subprime mortgage fiasco, don't stop at George Bush. Go all the way back to Herbert Hoover.
Posted 2009-03-12 00:30:00
Using game theory and market-design software, doctors are arranging kidney-transplant 'swaps' — sometimes in long chains — to give more people with renal disease better transplant options and healthier futures.
Posted 2009-03-15 15:04:00
History professor and blogger Juan Cole succeeds at debunking American myths about the Muslim world. It's the policy prescription that's trite.
Posted 2009-03-16 18:10:00
We look at studies analyzing Major League Baseball's race relations, economics and pop-ups.
Posted 2009-03-25 02:00:00
Letters to the Editor: A guide to political funding across the country, courtesy of the National Institute on Money in State Politics.
Posted 2009-03-31 21:16:00
Three innovators have created an approach that has greatly reduced — and just might end — homelessness.
Posted 2010-02-22 05:00:34
David Cope's software creates beautiful, original music. Why are people so angry about that?
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