When you see a Bieber-haired youth bemoaning the fact that getting “kicks” out of life now requires “synthetic means,” you could be forgiven for thinking you’re witnessing a Bushwick hipster kvetching about the ubiquity of social media and the FOMO phenomenon. In fact, you’re watching a British 14 year-old filmed in 1970 as part of…
A real-life experiment is playing out in front of computer screens all over the world, as millions of people regularly consume porn. Scientists, who have begun to study the potential consequences, are divided. One person to have addressed the issue very openly is advertising maven Cindy Gallop. During a TED conferencein Monterrey, California, 49-year-old…
The Sex Addiction Epidemic It wrecks marriages, destroys careers, and saps self-worth. Yet Americans are being diagnosed as sex addicts in record numbers. Inside an epidemic. Valerie realized that sex was wrecking her life right around the time her second marriage disintegrated. At 30, and employed as a human-resources administrator…
Knowledge clusters” are being built in France to kick start hi-tech industries In the United States, Europe and in rising powers such as China, there is a growth-hungry drive to invest in hi-tech research and innovation. They are looking for the ingredients that, like Google, will turn a university project into a corporation. They are…
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June 5th, 2011 Rebellion of an Innovation Mom Editor’s Note: Anne-Marie Slaughter is the Bert G. Kerstetter ’66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University. Follow her on Twitter at @slaughteram. By Anne-Marie Slaughter – Special to CNN Call it the rebellion of the mother of two adolescents against the Tiger Moms,…
Murders of women, often at the hands of ex-lovers or husbands, appear to be on the rise in Turkey. Rights activists say many of the killings could be prevented – if only authorities paid more attention to cries for help.
Chinese internet portal Sina.com CEO Charles Chao, left; former U.S. President Bill Clinton meets Charles Zhang, far right, founder and CEO of Sohu.com during the Fifth China Internet Summit in China.
The educational worm turns Thursday July 8, 2010 | 20:25 by Jonathan T. D. Neil in New York City | permalink | Art Salon As someone who as taken an interest in what I have called the art world’s ‘pedagogical impulse’ and what others have dubbed its ‘educational turn’, I was of course tickled to…