-
Flag Fen Hosts ‘Crowdsourced’ Bronze Age Archaeology Dig
By the Editor on August 13, 2012A first-of-its-kind “crowdsourced and crowdfunded” archaeological dig at Cambridgeshire’s Flag Fen has finished. It is the site of a...
0 -
Is the U.S. Moving Toward a Happiness Index?
By the Editor on August 7, 2012Talk about the pursuit of happiness. Several cities and states are are already looking into citizen well-being or floating...
-
Evolving a Green High-Rise
By the Editor on August 3, 2012Check out this high-rise in France’s Boulogne-Billancourt re-imagined as an urban eco-village, bursting with greenery. The Natural Evolution building...
-
Evolving Towards Murder: The Hare, the Tortoise, and the Aurora Madman
By the Editor on July 26, 2012From David Barash’s post, The Hare, the Tortoise, and the Aurora Madman, in reaction to the tragedy in Colorado,...
-
Innovation for Social Change
By the Editor on July 26, 2012Innovation researcher Maria Clara Couto Soares calls for a new debate on expanding the reach of grassroots social innovations.
-
Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions Continue to Rise
By the Editor on July 21, 2012International talks to address human-caused global warming began 20 years ago in Rio de Janeiro. But despite attempts to...
-
Dreaming of a World With No Intellectuals
By the Editor on July 20, 2012Are conservative intellectuals anti-intellectual? The short answer must be no. Edmund Burke, Leo Strauss, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Harvey Mansfield, Wilfred...
-
Generation X Lukewarm on Global Warming
By the Editor on July 20, 2012Gen Xers are surprisingly blasé about climate change. A survey in 2009 found members of Generation X were largely...
-
Future of Liberal Religion: A Counterculture Blooms?
By the Editor on July 19, 2012Amid a cascade of comment on the decline of mainline Protestantism, an historian argues that a great progressive tradition...
-
We Punish Out of a Desire for Fairness, Not Revenge
By the Editor on July 19, 2012Punishment helps discourage the dishonest from destroying the fabric of cooperative human societies. But that’s not what you actually...