Come out of the Bone Age, darling....1955 Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York Good thing he kept his head, 1962 Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York In 2008, Thomas put on a similar exhibit that focused on images of African-Americans. His new exhibit is…

"The American people are angry. They are angry because they are living through the worst recession since the Great Depression," said Bernie Sanders said on the floor of the Senate. For more information, please visit: http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroo...

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There are essentially two starkly different environments in which to download apps. The first is Apple’s app store, which carefully vets apps before allowing only those deemed fit to appear. The second is the Google Play store, which is more open because Google exercises a lighter touch in vetting…

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is facing the prospect of his first policy defeat in trying to keep the Patriot Act intact. Credit Doug Mills/The New York Times WASHINGTON — After more than a decade of wrenching national debate over the intrusiveness of government intelligence agencies, a…

By Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog 01 May 15 or the past quarter-century I’ve offered in articles, books, and lectures an explanation for why average working people in advanced nations like the United States have failed to gain ground and are under increasing economic stress: Put simply,…

Updated at 6:30 pm with a statement from WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. It’s taken close to half a decade. But WikiLeaks is back in the business of accepting truly anonymous leaks. On Friday, the secret-spilling group announced that it has finally relaunched a beta version of its leak submission…

First lady Eleanor Roosevelt receives a May basket of flowers from young children in 1938. Library of Congress Maybe there really was a time when America was more innocent. Back when May Basket Day was a thing, perhaps. The curious custom — still practiced in discrete pockets of the country — went…

Satya Nadella, chief executive of Microsoft, is focusing on new research as a way to spur growth. Credit Peter DiCampo for The New York Times Last June, in the basement of the Microsoft visitor center in Redmond, Wash., Todd Holmdahl, a Microsoft hardware guru, and others nervously walked Satya…

Some of the world’s most important historical, cultural and natural sites were already battered by war and disasters before things recently got worse. Last year, 46 of 1,007 places designated as World Heritage sites by UNESCO were in danger, a nearly unprecedented level of risk, just behind the…

Former Goldman Sachs computer programmer Sergey Aleynikov (2nd L) waits to appear in Manhattan Criminal. Steven Hirsch/Pool/Reuters/Landov A former Goldman Sachs programmer has been convicted for the second time in four years on charges that he misused his former employer’s code, adding a new…

3-D print of Venus de Milo Spinning Thread , left, and computer renderings of original 3-D scan of Venus , missing her arms. Image courtesy of Cosmo Wenman The Venus de Milo is a paradox: the embodiment of beauty, yet disfigured. And she is a puzzle, gazing serenely at something we cannot see,…

O n an evening in January A.D. 532, pandemonium broke out in the Constantinople Hippodrome, a U-shaped chariot racetrack surrounded by stadium stands. Two factions, the Greens and Blues—the predecessors of today’s soccer hooligans—broke into a fight. When the rest of the spectators dashed to escape,…

Twitter is presently abuzz with #talkpay folks sharing their salaries. The movement is rather Marxist in character, but this capitalist encourages you to look beyond that, as it is in the general interests of everyone who works for a salary or rate to understand what the market is like. Why Do I…

Share 20 Share Email 20 Shares “Buddy… we’ve been scammed.” Words you do NOT want to hear from your business partner ten minutes before your weekly team meeting. It’s hard to describe how getting scammed feels, but if you’re reading this and it’s happened to you, you’ll know exactly what I’m talking…

An American soldier patrolling outside Abu Ghraib prison in 2005. The public disclosure of images of prisoners being abused there prompted debate about the way the United States was treating detainees. WASHINGTON — The American Psychological Association secretly collaborated with the administration…

Regis Duvignau / Reuters Corinthian Colleges, Inc., was once one of the largest for-profit higher-education companies in North America. The 20-year-old company owned well-known subsidiaries like Heald and Everest, institutions that pledged to provide affordable, efficient vocational training to…

Ray Bradbury has a vacation house in Palm Springs, California, in the desert at the base of the Santa Rosa mountains. It’s a Rat Pack–era affair, with a chrome-and-turquoise kitchen and a small swimming pool in back. A few years ago, Bradbury let me look through some files stored in his garage as…

Mobile phones have become ubiquitous and basic communications tools—now used not only for phone calls, but also for accessing the Internet, sending text messages, and documenting the world. Unfortunately, mobile phones were not designed for privacy and security. Not only do they do a poor job of…

ON APRIL 22nd a drone carrying radioactive sand landed on the roof of the Japanese prime minister’s office in Tokyo. It was the latest of a string of incidents around the world involving small drones. Last year more than a dozen French nuclear plants were buzzed by them. In January one crashed on…

The Parched West The fountain has been turned off and the pool drained in front of Compton City Hall. But in upscale Cowan Heights, homeowners shower their lush lawns and top off pools and koi ponds. Credit Monica Almeida/The New York Times COMPTON, Calif. — Alysia Thomas, a stay-at-home mother in…

The news from Kraft last week that the company is ditching two artificial dyes in some versions of its macaroni and cheese products left me with a question.

Homeschooling is interesting because, if some new approach is going to disrupt the current education system and change it radically for the better, it seems likely it would come from outside the system. By necessity, parents who homeschool must try new approaches in order to find something that…

An anonymous green V marks the door of an ordinary office in downtown San Jose, California—inside, just a pool table, whiteboards scrawled with formulas, a dozen programmers working at computers with Nerf guns at their sides. The three founders gather in a glass-walled conference room. "What you're…

Ian and Cassie Smith-Christmas. (Photo by Ken Smith-Christmas) After reading about suicides at the College of William and Mary — there have been four student deaths this year and eight since 2010, all of them hitting hard at the small, close-knit school — an alumna, Cassie Smith-Christmas, was moved…

Microsoft, led by CEO Satya Nadella, has earned billions of dollars in patent licensing revenues from Android. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images In the 1980s, Gary Reback was an attorney representing Sun Microsystems, which was then a young startup making computer workstations. In a 2002 article for…

IN 1971 Richard Nixon fired the first shot in what became known as the “war on drugs” by declaring them “public enemy number one”. In America and the other rich countries that fought by its side, the campaign meant strict laws and harsh sentences for small-time dealers and addicts. In the poor,…

Chipotle restaurant workers in Miami fill orders on April 27, the day the company said it would use only non-GMO ingredients in its food. Joe Raedle/Getty Images Chipotle is trumpeting its renunciation of ingredients derived from genetically modified organisms, or GMOs. The company says that using…

April 30, 2015 Survey Report Over the past decade, there has been a pronounced age gap in American politics. Younger Americans have been the Democratic Party’s strongest supporters in both vote preferences and partisanship, while older Americans have been the most reliably Republican. The Pew…

“why don’t we just let all the languages die out?” , or some variant thereof, is the second question anyone asks me when I tell them I’m a linguist. (The first question is “How many languages do you speak?”) While that's very jarring, I understand where the notion is coming from. The purpose of…

Hideo Kojima. Jamie Simonds/Camera Press/Redux Hideo Kojima’s exit from Konami isn’t just the end of Metal Gear as we know it. It’s the end of the era of big-name directors running the show in Japan. From all appearances, the groundbreaking director of the influential, often brilliant Metal Gear…

In the following five short chapters, David Krakauer , an evolutionary theorist, and president elect of the Santa Fe Institute, haven of complex systems research, examines five facets of chain reactions, each typifying how ideas spread through science and culture. Together they tell a story of how…

Behind the friendly pink mustaches and fist bumps, Lyft is spending furiously to maintain second place in the U.S. ride-sharing industry, and steal market share from the distant leader , Uber Technologies. The expensive battle plan helped Lyft claim a fourfold increase in active passengers on 2.2…

A bipartisan group of congressional leaders has reintroduced the USA Freedom Act. The bill is an attempt to rein in the intelligence community's " Collect It All " strategy, and passing USA Freedom is a first, small step in the right direction. However, it has serious faults that should be…

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Extract from the Garbage Warrior movie where a team travels to Asia to help in April 2005 - they build and teach how to build an earthship - a green building that is eco-friendly and self sustaining (collects rainwater from roof for well underneath)

Ikea's line of flat-pack refugee shelters are going into production, the Swedish furniture maker announced this week, after being tested among refugee families in Ethiopia, Iraq, and Lebanon. The lightweight " Better Shelter " was developed under a partnership between the Ikea Foundation and the…

A new crypto war is underway. At a hearing in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, the FBI endured outright hostility as both technical experts and members of Congress from both parties roundly criticized the law enforcement agency’s desire to place so-called backdoors into encryption technology. Amy…