One of this blog's most read posts is a post by Ben entitled "A good read on the culture of 'free'". Despite being repeatedly told that there is no such thing as a free lunch we all love a good freebie, and the culture of free is one which is growing. As copyright battles against the ravages of…

In the era of 3D-printed guns, ammunition may prove a better regulatory target than the weapons themselves. An early Defense Distributed project. Defense Distributed hopes to create a shareable digital pattern that would allow anyone with a 3D printer to build his own gun. Download the pattern, send…

News Desk December 14, 2012 Barack Obama has been in our field of vision for a long time now, and, more than any major politician of recent memory, he hides in plain sight. He is who he is. He may strike the unsympathetic as curiously remote or arrogant or removed; he certainly strikes his admirers…

Obituary |5 min read TO PUT Dave Brubeck in a box was an unwise thing to do. He’d just jump right out again, big, broad and strong, with those horn-rimmed glasses and that crazy, slightly cross-eyed smile. Call him cool, and he’d tell you that many of his jazz arrangements were so hot, they sizzled.…

This group of folks working together reminds me of the many working people surrounding Jesus–and he didn’t ask all of them to leave their work . . . Since over a year ago, when a group of us began dreaming and scheming for what has now become the fully-funded “Work with Purpose initiative” at Bethel…

NFL Security Calls Cops on Brandon Marshall for the Crime of Being Black in a Rich Neighborhood – His Own When Black professional athletes say police brutality and being treated like a criminal is imp

Biz & IT Inside Team Romney’s whale of an IT meltdown Orca, the Romney campaign's "killer" app, skips beta and pays the price. Sean Gallagher – Nov 9, 2012 3:55 pm | 358 Credit: Aurich Lawson / Thinkstock Credit: Aurich Lawson / Thinkstock Story text Size Width * Links * Subscribers only Learn more…

Forgive me a personal indulgence, but I want to get this down so I can forever remember where I was the moment that the Big Ten extended its clublike footprint all up into the Northeast corridor’s blue-state posterior: I was actually sitting in a press box at Camp Randall Stadium in Madison,…

The day after the election, Southern Baptist Seminary President Albert Mohler said, “I think this was an evangelical disaster.” Not really. But it was a disaster for the religious right, which had again tied its faith to the partisan political agenda of the Republican Party — which did lose the…

[Photographs: J. Kenji Lopez-Alt] Get the Recipe Easy Pie Dough If there's one thing that instills fear into the hearts and minds of American cooks, it's pie crust. I know. At one time, I was one of those people. Pie crusts were the Mumm-ra to my Lion-O , and it was all because they were a mystery…

How a dream team of engineers from Facebook, Twitter, and Google built the software that drove Barack Obama's reelection Three members of Obama's tech team, from left to right: Harper Reed, Dylan Rich

She arrived early to take apart the campaign office piece by piece, just as she felt so many other things about her life were being dismantled. Beth Cox wore a Mitt Romney T-shirt, a cross around her neck and fresh eyeliner, even though she had been crying on and off and knew her makeup was likely…

Two more presidential elections, 2016 and 2020, will be contested under the current Electoral College configuration, which gave Barack Obama a second term on Tuesday. This year’s results suggest that this could put Republicans at a structural disadvantage. Based on a preliminary analysis of the…

Game 3 of the American League Championship Series, runners on first and second, two outs, bottom of the ninth, one-run lead, white-hot hitter at the plate, 42,490 fans screaming their asses off. Phil Coke has run the count to 3-2 against Raul Ibanez. The next pitch could turn an entire season. Get…

By John Blake , CNN President Barack Obama was sharing a pulpit one day with a conservative Christian leader when a revealing exchange took place. Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback, a conservative Christian w

In Utah, the state department of education is pulling together textbooks aligned to Common Core State Standards made up entirely of open educational resources, or OERs. South Dakota officials have created a repository of open education materials aligned to the common core for teachers. And at the…

A spam filter almost scotched my chance to be on television. I was scanning through the usual detritus of offers in July 2011 to enhance body parts and transfer large sums of money from people in distant lands, and spotted this subject line: Jeopardy! Contestant Audition in Seattle Ha! That's a new…

The poet Maya Angelou once said you can tell a lot about a person from the way they respond to three things: a rainy day, tangled Christmas lights, and lost luggage. Maya, Maya. Where were you at 2 a.m. the dark night I arrived in Paris without my bags? I needed my suit for the next morning, not…

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The Female Factor OSLO — “Money is not the problem,” the union leader tells me brightly — and for a moment I feel far from debt-stricken, austerity-obsessed Europe. Oil, I think — Norway has oil. That’s how it can afford its outrageously generous cradle-to-grave benefit system and still run a 10…

Policy “I am calling you from Windows”: A tech support scammer dials Ars Technica Cold caller from "Windows Technical Support" asks for remote access to my PC. Nate Anderson – Oct 4, 2012 7:30 am | 302 Credit: Aurich Lawson Credit: Aurich Lawson Story text Size Width * Links * Subscribers only Learn…

For Suzuki, Respect for Bats Is Key to Hitting Ichiro Suzuki has been using a bat case since he played in Japan. MINNEAPOLIS — During a game for the Orix Blue Wave in Japan in 1999, Ichiro Suzuki stru

On one website, Romney leads in nearly every national poll released in September. | REUTERS By Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns10/01/2012 04:27 AM EDT To talk with any working Republican political operative these days is to hear the same tale of woe: a grim accounting of the past few weeks, a…

Opinion Rethinking Sleep SOMETIME in the dark stretch of the night it happens. Perhaps it’s the chime of an incoming text message. Or your iPhone screen lights up to alert you to a new e-mail. Or you

Howard Needham is standing in a room deep in the bowels of Catholic University 's Ward Hall, listening to Samantha Cody play violin. "The wolf notes are gone," he says to Emil Chudnovsky , a CU music

SILVERADO, Calif. – On the morning Grant Desme ceased to exist, he was at peace. He spent years searching for serenity, convinced it was coming soon, next, now. It never did. Life was a blaring stereo, and he had become numb to its noise. The sound finally abated when he arrived here. He believed…

Over the past few years, Republicans have developed a habit of railing against the 47 percent of Americans who don't pay any federal income taxes. It's a fairly misleading talking point , but it keeps resurfacing. And now Mitt Romney has picked up on it: Mother Jones's David Corn recently got hold…

Life Under Romneycare It is the law that was the source code for Obamacare. It is the law that dare not speak its name. It also happens to be the best thing Mitt Romney will ever do in his life. Without it, I'm not sure how my family and I would live. Why would a man be ashamed of helping so many…

COVER STORY Dakota and Elle Fanning Finally Join Forces Even a notoriously cutthroat industry can’t shake the Fanning sisters’ bond. Elle and Dakota open up about (finally) starring in a film together, navigating Hollywood, and defying expectations. By Savannah WalshPhotography by Inez and Vinoodh…

Simon Johnson is Ronald A. Kurtz Professor of Entrepreneurship at the M.I.T. Sloan School of Management and former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund. His books include “13 Bankers.” Perhaps the biggest issue of this presidential election is the relationship between government and…

I’m very pleased to welcome this guest post from my colleague Christian Collins Winn: the text of his address yesterday morning in Bethel University‘s year-opening chapel service, in which he appealed to Bethel’s roots in Pietism to help us start a year-long conversation about what church historian…

Recipe Details Prep 15 mins Cook 25 mins Active 15 mins Rising and Cooling Time 2 hrs 5 mins Total 2 hrs 45 mins Serves 4 servings Makes 1 pie Keep Screen Awake Ingredients 17.5 ounces (500 g, about 3 1/2 cups) all-purpose or bread flour 0.35 ounce (10 g, about 2 teaspoons) kosher salt 0.18 ounce (5…

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David Roberts Published Aug 31, 2012 Topic Climate + Politics Share/Republish Photo by Shutterstock. The brazen lies of the Romney/Ryan campaign — on full display in Paul Ryan’s spectacularly dishonest speech at the Republican National Convention — have political pundits at a loss. Here’s Kevin…

On the January night in 2008 when he won the Iowa caucuses, Barack Obama delivered a victory speech that would reverberate forcefully across a divided America. Iowans, he said, had come together — Democrats, Republicans and independents — to stand as one in calling for a new politics of unity and…