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If you like binge-watching Netflix, streaming audio or online gaming, then you should be celebrating this week. And if your business depends on reaching a wide audience online, you should join in.
Hillary Clinton has elevated environmental justice to a high level as a presidential nominee, but as the Flint water crisis demonstrates, the deeper problem lies in ineffective government agencies.
Australia’s Smart Cities Plan largely conveys a limited role for people: they live, work and consume. This neglects the rich body of work calling for better human engagement in smart cities.
Because Netflix continually upends established business models, evaluating the company can difficult.
Charters schools are here to stay. More than three million students are enrolled in 6,700 charter schools across 42 states.
Recent terrorist attacks have heightened concerns about the security of nuclear plants. A former top U.S. nuclear regulator says security is weak at many sites worldwide.
If smart cities run on big data and algorithms that channel only ‘relevant’ information and opinions to us, how do we maintain the diversity of ideas and possibilities that drives truly smart cities?
The effects of the Dublin insurrection went much further than Ireland.
U.C. Berkeley and the Broad Institute are fighting to control the patents on the revolutionary gene-editing technology. But there’s a lot more at stake than just who gets the credit and licensing fees.
Honey bees are in decline and the current method of keeping them can be disruptive to a colony. But new designs allow beekeepers to monitor a hive remotely, even sniff out disease and pests.
A recent study on school vouchers shows that the program may be harming kids’ academic achievement, at least in math. What’s missing here? Are test scores the only way to judge a program?
Some advertising content bypasses regulations to promote unrealistic beliefs about drugs.
Improving the efficiency of existing rail infrastructure into Port Botany will deliver the capacity gains it will need.
Despite what some climate advocates think, extreme weather events do little to sway Americans’ political views on climate change.
Indonesia should cultivate a culture of peer-review to support academics produce basic social research, essential in creating good policies in the world’s fourth most populous country.
A new alternative for those questioning Darwinian evolution? Research suggests evolution itself is intelligent.
If Flint, Michigan were an affluent suburb, would residents have been exposed as long to drinking toxic water? Pioneering scholar Robert Bullard calls Flint’s crisis a classic case of environmental discrimination
Parents take note: most kids develop a sense of self-esteem as early as age five.
The future does not bode well for global oil. This, however, is for reasons related to climate change, not because of tumbling prices.
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