Intelligence in the Wild Kingdom

" Throughout history, intelligence has often been considered a quality unique to humans, but that conventional wisdom has been shattered over the years as research continues to turn up examples of animals, birds and fish that can develop vocabularies, communicate and even...

Digital consumer rights

"Digital consumer rights Sean Whelan, Europe Correspondent, reports that the plea for digital consumer rights is pretty much Jim Murray's last act after 17 years as director of the European Consumer Organisation. 'Do we have to accept that when we take the shrink wrap off a...

Reggae Pop Legend Shaggy To Receive Order Of Distinction

  Kingston, Jamaica: - Music icon Shaggy receives the Order Of Distinction in the rank of Commander for outstanding service to Jamaica on Monday October 15 at Kings House. The Order of Distinction is the fifth in order of precedence of the Orders of Societies of...

The Labyrinth Unbound: Weblogs as Literature

"The novel is, as Doody (1996) reminds us after Henry James, “‘a loose baggy monster.’ And it is so chiefly because it does not acknowledge the distinction between… Form and Matter” (p.304). The weblog likewise collapses form and matter such that they...

YouTube Starts Paying a Few Contributors

YouTube is allowing some of its most popular content creators to start earning revenue from videos they post on the site. "Up until now there's been a distinction between the content you create and the content created by YouTube's professional content partners," reads a...

Why Didn’t George Tenet Just Resign?

"Does this sound familiar? A senior Bush administration official plays a key role in selling the Iraq war debacle to the American public, resigns a few years later, and then tries to distance himself from Bush and the war by writing a book or talking to Bob Woodward,...

Edwards' Emotionalism: The candidate and His Family in New Hampshire by John ...

"CONCORD, N.H.—John Edwards is the anti-Obama. The Illinois senator's stump speeches are studded with anecdotes and set-piece jokes and have a changing rhythm he has compared to a jazz performance. When he offers policy specifics, they feel secondary. Edwards finished...

Who coined the phrase "the American dream"?

Politicians love to talk about "the American dream." However, the phrase wasn't coined by an elected official. That distinction belongs to writer and historian James Truslow Adams. Adams penned it in his 1931 book "The Epic of America." Of course, he couldn't have known it...