Aside from the small African country of Gabon, the U.S. is the only nation in the world that still conducts research on chimpanzees. Last Thursday, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced new guidelines stating that most chimp research is not medically necessary. ...
TIME Magazine’s Person of the Year - The Protester TIME magazine made an apt choice for person of the year, as rural protesters in China are now joining the likes of Occupy Wall Street, the Arab Spring, and the Anna Hazare movement in ...
We often see the arts as only fit for museums, galleries, and film festivals, cloistered in halls only for the intellectual elite. But the arts can help build a nation, or in the case of Afghanistan, are rebuilding a nation, employing its people, ...
Earlier this year the Supreme Court ruled that California prisons were in such bad shape they violated the 8th amendment prohibiting cruel and unusual punishment. The reason? Overcrowding. California must to reduce its prison population by 30,000, according to the ruling. Overcrowding is ...
All over Reddit, Twitter, and various blogs, the armies are gearing up to defend themselves against an encroaching enemy: the government. And their greatest weapon is, ultimately, themselves. As a bill called the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA, gets ready to go ...
Humans are an increasingly urbanized species; for the first time in history, more people live in cities than in rural areas. And that, of course, means more buildings, which means more concentrated energy usage. Many cities are trying to limit carbon emissions by ...
Due to the onset of winter and police crackdowns on encampments, Occupy movements in many cities have retreated from their initial tactics of long term public occupations. In this time of recalculating and rebuilding for the movement, a recent Occupier reflects back on ...
We all remember times when school felt completely useless and abstract – for me, it was in chemistry class, a subject I thought would never apply to my life or career. In this tough employment climate, debate about how to educate with dwindling ...
Picture a marriage between the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter and OpenIDEO, a platform where a community of users proposes solutions real-world design challenges and ultimately selects a winner. Their baby would be GOOD Maker, a recently-launched platform that links organizations with specific problems or ...
Directed at budding social entrepreneurs, Social Enterprise Bootcamp, a recent two day workshop organized by students at Columbia, NYU and the School of Visual Arts, offered practical advice from an impressive array of speakers. Here are a few of the key take-aways: A ...