ALL the major reli­gions place great impor­tance on com­pas­sion. Whether it’s the parable of the good Samar­itan in Chris­tianity, Judaism’s “13 attrib­utes of com­pas­sion” or the Buddha’s state­ment that “loving … read more »

Mil­lions of cargo con­tainers are unloaded from ships each year at Amer­ican sea­ports, pro­viding count­less oppor­tu­ni­ties for ter­ror­ists to smuggle and unleash a nuclear bomb or weapon of mass destruc­tion … read more »

Summer jobs for teenagers are increas­ingly hard to find. Only 3 out of every 10 teenagers held a full– or part-​​​​time job in July of 2011. In 1989, that rate … read more »

When sci­en­tists pub­lish their research, they also make the under­lying data avail­able so the results can be ver­i­fied by other scientists.

I run a book club. It’s a highly demo­c­ratic oper­a­tion, and the mem­bers choose what books they want to read. What with varying tastes and all, building a con­sensus can … read more »

Cit­i­zen­ship laws are in the news again. Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Michele Bach­mann of Min­nesota acquired, and then quickly renounced, Swiss cit­i­zen­ship. Eduardo Saverin, a founder of Face­book who was born in Brazil and lives … read more »

If sur­veys of Occupy Wall Street sup­porters con­ducted last fall still hold true, the crowds of pro­testers expected to turn out Tuesday forMay Day events across the country will most likely skew male, … read more »

Stag­gered boards have long been a key mech­a­nism for insu­lating boards of pub­licly traded firms from share­holders. This year, sev­eral insti­tu­tional investors and a pro­gram working on their behalf have … read more »

Faced with dimin­ished demand for Iranian oil because of eco­nomic sanc­tions, Iran’s pres­i­dent pro­claimed defi­antly on Tuesday that the country had such plen­tiful reserves of money that it could sur­vive for … read more »

Faced with dimin­ished demand for Iranian oil because of eco­nomic sanc­tions, Iran’s pres­i­dent pro­claimed defi­antly on Tuesday that the country had such plen­tiful reserves of money that it could sur­vive … read more »

When two North­eastern Uni­ver­sity pro­fes­sors, one in health sci­ences and the other in com­puter and infor­ma­tion sci­ence, came together to try to develop a system to help women breast-​​​​feed more … read more »

The Summer Olympics in London could be a water­shed event for inter­na­tional sports as every par­tic­i­pating nation is expected to field at least one female ath­lete, including three Muslim coun­tries … read more »