Exhaust rises from cooling towers at the new Neurath lignit coal-fired power station at Grevenbroich near Aachen, western Germany.Photograph: Patrik Stollarz/AFP/Getty Images Five of the world’s seven richest countries have increased their coal use in the last five years despite demanding that poor…

Aziz Ansari.Photograph: Reed Young for the Guardian Y ou can count on two hands the number of comedians who have sold out Madison Square Garden. Eddie Murphy is one. George Carlin is another. Last October, Aziz Ansari did it twice in a single night, performing his fourth standup special in four…

“Kalief Browder, 1993–2015,” by Jennifer Gonnerman (June 7th) Credit PHOTOGRAPH BY ZACH GROSS Last fall, I wrote about a young man named Kalief Browder , who spent three years on Rikers Island without being convicted of a crime. He had been arrested in the spring of 2010, at age sixteen, for a…

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush poses with supporters for photos during a fundraiser in May. Alan Diaz/AP Jeb Bush was pleading for money. Late last month a fundraising email, sent in his name, asked donors for "$100, $50, $25, or anything you can spare right now." Bush said his political action…

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Good vs. bad. Right vs. wrong. Human beings begin to learn the difference before we learn to speak—and thankfully so. We owe much of our success as a species to our capacity for moral reasoning. It’s the glue that holds human social groups together, the key to our fraught but effective ability to…

Rekha is one of the many caged prostitutes Mary Ellen Mark came to know as she photographed in the red-light district of Mumbai. Courtesy of Mary Ellen Mark Studio and Library She saw young women in cages. Men young and old watched as the women beckoned and lifted their skirts, then decided which…

Noemi Sosa shops at Daily Table, a nonprofit supermarket in Dorchester, Mass. Jesse Costa/WBUR Daily Table opened its doors Thursday with shelves full of surplus and aging food. The nonprofit grocery store is in the low-to-middle income Boston neighborhood of Dorchester. It's selling canned…

Photographer: Sanjit Das/Bloomberg Photographer: Sanjit Das/Bloomberg Kunal Bahl's American dream was coming together in late 2007. He had Ivy League degrees in business and engineering, a debut job at Microsoft Corp. and a roadmap to the career he’d always wanted in Silicon Valley. Then his…

A new alcohol detection system could be introduced in cars by 2020, preventing intoxicated drivers from starting their cars. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration showcased their first prototype of the Driver Alcohol Detection System for Safety, known as "DADSS" at Mothers Against Drunk…

When you sign up to do a Vipassana , there's a form they ask you to sign saying that you won't leave. When you arrive they ask you the same question, and then when you're unpacked and sitting in the canteen sipping herbal tea, they ask you again if you're really prepared to stay for the entirety of…

Pizza Hut/Ogilvy Hong Kong Thinking that movie nights and pizza are a natural fit, Pizza Hut created a new cardboard pizza box that turns into a working movie projector powered by your smartphone. It's called the Blockbuster Box, and it was designed by Ogilvy Hong Kong for a Pizza Hut marketing…

On the psychology of why rejection and loneliness may be necessary evils for the creative genius “In the deepest and most important things, we are unutterably alone, and for one person to be able to advise or even help another, a lot must happen, a lot must go well, a whole constellation of things…

The Chronicle Review We have entered an age of willful ignorance Brian Taylor for The Chronicle Review June 08, 2015 Premium content for subscribers. Subscribe Today T o see how we treat the concept of truth these days, one might think we just don’t care anymore. Politicians pronounce that global…

The manhunt for two escaped killers last year ended on its 23rd day with the shooting and capture of the second fugitive two days after the first was killed. Richard W. Matt, 49, and David Sweat, 35, were discovered missing in June from the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, N.Y. Mr. Matt…

Apple’s ongoing work to improve its search features got a big boost on mobile today: Apple launched a search API for iOS 9 that will be based around deep linking technology. This will let developers index and link out their apps, making their content discoverable through the native search experience…

As Facebook and YikYak try to grow a younger audience, a startup that taps into one of the key attribute of teen users – no money for data plans – is blowing up. Jott , a messaging app that works without a data plan or WiFi connection, has caught on among junior high and high school students,…

Six decades ago, the US and Saudi Arabia had an uneasy relationship based on oil and regional security, but a secret trip by President Truman's personal physician to treat the Saudi monarch drew them closer together. In February 1950, the US ambassador in Saudi Arabia sent an unlikely and unusual…

Apple is looking to make iPads more functional devices for business productivity with a new split-screen app mode which allows iPad users to run two different apps side-by-side. This sort of feature is something Microsoft has previously used to target the iPad in its advertisements, which…

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey faced the prospect of weeks of political turmoil after the ruling AK Party lost its parliamentary majority in weekend polls, dealing a blow to President Tayyip Erdogan’s ambitions to acquire sweeping new powers. Instead of the two-thirds majority he had wanted to change the…

Pierferdinando Casini, an Italian politician, takes a drug test in Rome. Marco Merlini / Reuters Last year, U.S. workers peed into one drug testing company’s cups about 9.1 million times . And last year, as in other recent years, analysis of about 350,000 of those cups indicated drug use. Most…

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Op-Ed Contributor Edward Snowden: The World Says No to Surveillance Credit Adam Maida MOSCOW — TWO years ago today, three journalists and I worked nervously in a Hong Kong hotel room, waiting to see how the world would react to the revelation that the National Security Agency had been making records…

A new report into U.S. consumers’ attitude to the collection of personal data has highlighted the disconnect between commercial claims that web users are happy to trade privacy in exchange for ‘benefits’ like discounts. On the contrary, it asserts that a large majority of web users are not at all…

The Surprisingly Dark Reality of Chinese Tourism Monica Shi & Amanda Shi Jun 5, 2015 Some Chinese tour groups cater exclusively to Chinese citizens who have emigrated (to the US, Canada, Australia) and are returning to vacation in their home country. These inexpensive tours consist of several…

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Since it launched last month, LightSail , a little, privately financed spacecraft meant to demonstrate the potentially revolutionary technology of using sunlight for propulsion, has been alive, dead and revived. Now it is dead again. Or at least sleeping. Jason Davis, the digital editor for the…

Indra Nooyi is smiling, but it’s not a happy smile. “How many women shop here vs. men?” she asks, standing in front of a bulky stack of 32-packs of Aquafina water in the aisle of Pete’s Fresh Market in Chicago. “More women,” one member of the six-person entourage of Pepsi executives and employees…

They hoisted up tens of thousands of terrified wild animals to the blood-soaked sands of the Colosseum. Now, more than 1,500 years after the last fights between lions, leopards and bears, one of the ingenious wooden machines that carried the beasts to certain death has been reconstructed in the…

You wouldn’t expect a petite, fair-haired, 28-year-old woman to be one of the most powerful people in coding. But Linda Liukas, who lives in Helsinki, Finland, and describes herself as someone who enjoys cooking, running and has ‘way too many children’s books’, is just that. She has co-founded a…

WASHINGTON — The inspector general at the Office of Personnel Management, which keeps the records and security clearance information for millions of current and retired federal employees, issued a report in November that essentially described the agency’s computer security system as a Chinese…

The Tech & Design Issue Digital-music merchants in Mali’s capital provide a vibrant human-driven alternative to iTunes. 1 / 12 Over the last two decades, cellphones have ushered in a communications revolution in Africa. The entire country of Mali, for example, has just 120,000 landlines to serve a…

Australian academics who teach mathematics may need to run new ideas by the Department of Defence before sharing them or risk imprisonment. Some academics are set to become much more familiar with the department's Defence Export Control Office ( DECO ), a unit that enforces the Defence Trade Control…

Many cities offer Wi-Fi hotspots for visitors. Very few local governments, however, offer free, unrestricted, high-speed Wi-Fi, fast enough for streaming video—the sort that makes your paid-for home Wi-Fi look sluggish. And even fewer provide upload speeds on par with download speeds. Yet visit the…

The grave in Ethiopia where the woman dubbed ‘Sleeping Beauty’ was discovered. Photograph: Graeme Laidlaw Spectacular 2,000-year-old treasures from the Roman empire and the Aksumite kingdom, which ruled parts of north-east Africa for several centuries before 940AD, have been discovered by British…

The humanoid robot 'DRC-Hubo' developed by Team KAIST from South Korea completes a task before winning the finals of the DARPA Robotics Challenge at the Fairplex complex in Pomona, California on June 6, 2015 South Korean boffins carried home the $2 million top prize Saturday after their robot…

Deep in the archives of the University of New Brunswick's library in Saint John, a famous movie script sat forgotten and collecting dust. It tells the tales of a galaxy far, far away — and no one knows how it got there. Since February, Kristian Brown, a librarian, has been sifting through the…

In dangerous places around the world, where soldiers or police officers may be committing human rights abuses, a mobile phone has become a key weapon. In the hands of campaigners and victims of abuse, it can provide valuable video evidence of crimes. Often, the first we hear of atrocities is when a…