compelling 5 minute slideshow with music by R.E.M. giving the shocking facts and statistics about child poverty throughout the world, and the resultant death...

**Disclaimer - There is an individual who goes by the username 'theRightizright' and/or 'Apollo Carroll' trolling these comments. He appears to be a fundamen...

View the full event: http://www.cato.org/events/designer-drugs-new-futile-front-war-illegal-drugs News organizations have recently documented the proliferati...

John Witte responds to a question about whether there is a common enough basis among world religions for a human rights declaration.

Neuroscientist Greg Gage takes sophisticated equipment used to study the brain out of graduate-level labs and brings them to middle- and high-school classrooms (and, sometimes, to the TED stage.) Prepare to be amazed as he hooks up the Mimosa pudica, a plant whose leaves close when touched, and the Venus flytrap to an EKG to show us how plants use electrical signals to convey information, prompt movement and even count.

by Jennifer Granick & Riana Pfefferkorn What kind of surveillance assistance can the U.S. government force companies to provide? This issue has entered the p...

Alaa Murabit's family moved from Canada to Libya when she was 15. Before, she’d felt equal to her brothers, but in this new environment she sensed big prohib...

“Eating chocolate helps losing weight” I was stunned. Could not believe it. And nope, it’s not because of a new weight loss trend that could help me losing s...

Claire is a practicing geriatrician who has recently taken to research to try to understand how some older individuals become frail, while others successfull...