(PhysOrg.com) -- The world could one day be an economically equal place, if the lower-income population have anything to do with it. In an interesting yet disheartening series of socioeconomic experiments, led by a team of UC Berkeley researchers, the findings are that those on the lower-income…

1. The assignment FORTUNE — On the morning of Aug. 18, 2004, Dinesh Thakur hurried to a hastily arranged meeting with his boss at the gleaming offices of Ranbaxy Laboratories in Gurgaon, India, 20 miles south of New Delhi. It was so early that he passed gardeners watering impeccable shrubs and…

Way back in October 2008, my now husband and I went on our first date. On our one year anniversary, his gift to me was a Word doc of all of our text messages.

On a quiet street in Ellicott City, Maryland, a blue-grey two-story clapboard house, set back from the road, is shaded by two sycamores and a towering maple. It’s the unassuming home of one of the National Security Agency’s most powerful officials, Teresa H. Shea.

Press on: 2014-10-16 On Tuesday, Munich's first mayor finally reacted to an inquiry by the Green Party (in German) related to rumours regarding a possible switch back to a Windows-based desktop environment. The answer to the inquiry shows that there is no factual basis for the claims made by first…

Apprentices at work in Europe's largest steel factory in Duisburg, Germany Ina Fassbender/Reuters At last, unemployment is easing. But the latest low rate—hovering below 6 percent–obscures a deeper, longer-term problem: “skills mismatches” in the labor force, which will only worsen in years to come.…

Tim McDonagh In March 1857, a full two decades before Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, the French patent office awarded a Parisian printer named Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville a patent for a machine that recorded sound. Inspired by anatomical studies of the human ear and fascinated with the…

Unnecessary medical treatments cost $210 billion a year in the US. David Newman’s site could help change that. Andrew Hetherington Katherine Carpenter couldn’t sleep. For more than a week she’d been coughing herself awake every night and then hacking until she retched. Finally, she decided to see a…

A 700-page treatise on economics translated from French is not exactly a light summer read—even for someone with an admittedly high geek quotient. But this past July, I felt compelled to read Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century after reading several reviews and hearing about it from…

L ev Landau, a Nobelist and one of the fathers of a great school of Soviet physics, had a logarithmic scale for ranking theorists, from 1 to 5. A physicist in the first class had ten times the impact of someone in the second class, and so on. He modestly ranked himself as 2.5 until late in life,…

It has become common for people who have pets to refer to themselves as “pet parents,” but how closely does the relationship between people and their non-human companions mirror the parent-child relationship? A small study from a group of Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)…

I n August 1856, limestone quarry workers blasting out the entrance to the Feldhofer grotto in the Neander Valley of west-central Germany found a set of skeletal remains. Assuming the skull scraps, arm bones, ribs, and pelvis were from an ancient cave bear, the workers turned them all over to Johann…

Furniture made with 3-D printers is often fashionable , but rarely comfortable . Dutch designer Lilian van Daal hopes to change that with a 3-D printed “soft seat” that arrays thousands of flexible plastic strands to create a plush pad for your posterior. Working on a project for Dutch office…

Calling Pulp Fiction an independent film feels like a joke—a cruel jab meant to make all other indie films feel bad about what they'll never achieve. It's like your friend posting "You have the same number of hours in a day as Beyoncé." It's supposed to sound motivational but sounds dickish instead.…

Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid is a heartwarming tale of a mermaid falling in love, battling evil to be with her love, and living happily ever after as a human. Just kidding. That’s the Disney version. In Andersen’s, the young mermaid has her tongue cut out, gets burned hard by the…

This year we harvested three ewe lambs on butcher day. Angry readers who don’t eat meat want me to use the word “butcher.” So this is for them: We butchered the lambs. It was a good, quick death. I know this because I watched it. Some people get uncomfortable reading about anything to do with…

1h Wearables Apple Watch might finally add sleep tracking next year The 2020 model will pack the long-absent feature. By , 1h ago Save 5h 5h ago in Home It looks like Apple Music is coming to Google Home A listing for the music streaming service was spotted in the smart speaker's iOS app. By S. Shah…

An immigration officer at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja on Aug. 11. Afolabi Sotunde / Reuters Update 10/20: The World Health Organization has declared Nigeria Ebola-free. Americans need only look to Nigeria to calm their fears about an Ebola outbreak in the US. Nigeria, the most…

In this photo taken Tuesday, July 1, 2014, packets of a variety of recreational marijuana named "Space Needle" are shown during packaging operations at Sea of Green Farms in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) A new report from the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice adds to the growing body of…

What Kids Around the World Eat for Breakfast Related Article Rise and Shine What kids around the world eat for breakfast. Saki Suzuki, 2 ¾ years old, Tokyo Hannah Whitaker for The New York Times The first time Saki ate the fermented soybean dish called natto , she was 7 months old. She promptly…

The centre of the MIlky Way: soon to be used as target practice for flying canisters of human remains. via WikiCommons . Dying in and of itself comes with the usual long list of shit you gotta deal with, but thinking about what to do with your remains after you die is pretty stressful too. Most…

Recent scholarship shows that Beethoven was perpetually buffeted by political forces. Credit Illustration by Daniel Adel Beethoven is a singularity in the history of art—a phenomenon of dazzling and disconcerting force. He not only left his mark on all subsequent composers but also molded entire…

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On Getting Wasted Among the hoarders and junk haulers of Charleston

Stephen King began this interview in the summer of 2001, two years after he was struck by a minivan while walking near his home in Center Lovell, Maine. He was lucky to have survived the accident, in which he suffered scalp lacerations, a collapsed right lung, and multiple fractures of his right hip…

Poitras says that there is nothing she’d “rather do than be behind the camera with people, in real time, confronting life decisions.” Photograph by James Day From the garden terrace of a sixth-floor walkup on a quiet Berlin street, there was a clear view to the TV Tower, in Alexanderplatz. The…

Nature | Comment Sharing David L Heymann 2 Drawing on his experiences in previous outbreaks, David L. Heymann calls for rapid diagnosis, patient isolation, community engagement and clinical trials. Article tools PDF Rights & Permissions Subject terms: Medical research Virology Developing world Ebola…

President George W. Bush, seated, signs No Child Left Behind into law at Hamilton High School in Hamilton, Ohio. Ron Edmonds/ASSOCIATED PRESS Take yourself back to those highly emotional, patriotic months after the 9/11 attacks. In the midst of war, terrorism, fear and mourning, one bill passed…

The huge gap between current CMS offerings and what the world needed occurred to me during my time as CTO of The Huffington Post . When we were acquired by AOL in 2011, I inherited 53 properties built on dozens of different content management systems. It wasn't long after that I soon realized they…

in Art, Music | October 9th, 2014 4 Comments Advertisement Ask enough people to name their favorite artist of any kind, and sooner rather than later, someone will name Miles Davis. The trumpeter and jazz auteur behind — or, strictly speaking, up in front of — such unchallenged masterpieces as Birth…

Published on October 11, 2014 P olice agencies have used hundreds of millions of dollars taken from Americans under federal civil forfeiture law in recent years to buy guns, armored cars and electronic surveillance gear. They have also spent money on luxury vehicles, travel and a clown named…

Ana C./Flickr Most of us in the United States don’t give much thought to our drinking water. When we turn on our faucets, clean drinking water comes out. When we flush our toilets, the waste goes away. Simple, right? Urban water systems evolved in response to three major crises — now we're facing a…

To Apple, Copying Is Always “Stealing”—Unless It’s Doing The Copying / 13 Oct 2014 / Mobile Jony Ive, Apple vice president of design, at the Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit You know that saying about imitation being the sincerest form of flattery? It’s total hogwash, at least according to…

We are used to having multiple books open at the same time when looking things up at home or writing an essay for class. Whether PDFs, e-books or old-fashioned paper volumes, switching between books in a smooth movement is something we don’t often think about. This was very different in medieval…

A detonation over the Marshall Islands in 1952 was the first test of a hydrogen bomb. At the height of the McCarthy era, J. Robert Oppenheimer, the government’s top atomic physicist, came under suspicion as a Soviet spy. After 19 days of secret hearings in April and May of 1954, the Atomic Energy…