Bigger isn't better

A return to booming economic growth would put the world back on the path to disaster -- it's time for a radical rethinking.~Bigger isn't Better, By Peter A. Victor.~ " There's nothing like a good crisis to make us rethink old ideas. The Depression of the 1930s led to the...

Retire Retirement? Another 30 Years of Work at 50 plus?

I am not sure, I can square my life or rather the next 30 years of it with the idea of a 'new career'...Working until I am 81 plus does not sound that exciting to me at least if I was to frame it in the traditional definition of work.I do not see myself retiring anytime...

'Chicago Sun-Times' Looks to Redefine Itself as 'Liberal, Working-Class' Paper

The Chicago Sun Times is moving left.It's gotta be a business decision, not a moral or political one. I say this with due deference to publisher John Cruickshank, who in a past lifetime was a fellow journalist at...

Sex and Death in Zero-Gravity: NASA Confronts Mission Ethics

Yeah, yeah, put "sex" in the headline. But NASA is genuinely confronting the issue of sexual tension amongst astronauts on long-term missions (where Mars would be a short haul-flight), as well as how to deal with...

Gannett's New Lease On News

Call it "UGC" or citizen journalism or Pro-Am partnership, it is good journalism.

Breakthrough sheds light on cause of diabetes

"One of the root causes of type 1 diabetes may need rethinking – the condition may be triggered by faulty nerves in the pancreas, a new study reveals. Type 1 diabetes has long been described as an autoimmune disease in which the body’s immune system targets islet...

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