Can you remember a period in your life when, if you look back on it now, time seemed to stretch on forever? When a week seemed like four, or an hour seemed like it went on for days? What were you doing during that period? Chances are, you were probably doing something (or a whole bunch of…

T. MUGHAL / EPA Tahir ul Qadri, a prominent religious scholar, talks to supporters during a sit-in protest in Islamabad, Pakistan on Jan.15, 2013. Follow @TIMEWorld For the past week Tahir ul Qadri, a Sufi-inspired religious leader with a weakness for extravagant rhetoric and headgear, had been…

version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"? St. Louis Fed Here is a simple way to think about the political calculus of Washington's latest twists and turns. And — unfortunately — it suggests that economic and market dislocations may be needed to get our politicians to cooperate and govern properly. A major…

statigr.am/anniejean_sc Williams College students Hayley Brooks and Kaison Tanabe analyzed the careers of 15,000+ graduates, and used CIRCOS visualization software to plot out the data. Professor Satyan Devadoss then published it online. They've given us permission to reproduce the data here. It's a…

version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"? Prince Alwaleed is worth an estimated $18 billion Earlier this year, Dealbook revealed that billionaire Saudi prince Alwaleed bin Talal al-Saud (of dwarf-tossing fame ) was spending some $500 million on a fully customized A380 from Airbus , the most expensive private…

version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"? NESTLE, THE WORLD’S biggest food company, has creative ways to reach far-flung corners of the world. One of them is to work through people like Flavia Medeiros, a microdistributor in São Paulo. She sells to Brazilians who might not at first sight have the cash or…

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IF you haven’t finished your holiday shopping yet, don’t bother. Skip the mall and the neighborhood store, resist the urge to shop online and, by all means, don’t buy anything you don’t truly need. So says Kalle Lasn, 70, maestro of the proudly radical magazine Adbusters, published in Vancouver,…

WHAT do garlic and onions have in common with gunpowder? A lot. They’re incendiary. They can do harm and they delight. Sulfur is central to their powers. And they helped inspire the work of a chemist who has just published a welcome treatise on the smelly yet indispensable allium family.

Shoppers walk through the Emam Zadeh Davod bazaar west of Tehran. (Atta Kenare -- AFP/Getty Images) Australian travel writer Nate Robert is definitely not the first Western tourist to visit Iran. Some European travel companies still run regular group tours, and though tourism is definitely not what…

1 of 12 Credit: © Fernando Gregory | Dreamstime.com Why we do stupid stuff Compared with most animals, we humans engage in a host of behaviors that are destructive to our own kind and to ourselves. We lie, cheat and steal, carve ornamentations into our own bodies, stress out and kill ourselves, and…

Quijada’s invented language has two seemingly incompatible ambitions: to be maximally precise but also maximally concise. Credit Photograph by Dan Winters / Typography By AJ Frackattack There are so many ways for speakers of English to see the world. We can glimpse, glance, visualize, view, look,…

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Why? One answer: Because America’s government no longer thinks long-term, no longer invests in Big Problems like landing a man on the moon. So Silicon Valley, and the rest of America’s top innovative technology geniuses, focus on short-term money-makers like Facebook and other Small Problem stuff…

That something happened to humanity’s capacity to solve big problems is a commonplace. Recently, however, the complaint has developed a new stridency among Silicon Valley’s investors and entrepreneurs, although it is usually expressed a little differently: people say there is a paucity of real…

In yet another sign Americans are sleeping less, the number of sleep clinics has reached an all-time high. And while sleeplessness is big business, worth over $32 billion, it’s an even bigger economic problem -- costing nearly twice that in lost productivity.

One of the main roles for the mineral iodine is to help manufacture thyroid hormones . And once upon a time in America - especially in the Great Lakes region - there were many cases of goiter, an enlarged thyroid gland caused by iodine deficiency. The iodine/goiter story had a happy ending, however,…