Meritocracy has become a leading social ideal. Politicians across the ideological spectrum continually return to the...
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Do Americans Know How Much Trouble They’re In?
A President who invokes absolute authority to…pardon himself. An ambassador to Germany who declares he wants to…topple...
Employees Don’t Quit Their Job; They Quit Their Boss!
Employees might join companies, but they leave managers. Too many managers view their position as one of entitlement...
Gandhi’s Unequal Justice in South Africa
The young lawyer fought the British empire for the rights of Indians, but not those of the Zulus he lived among. Gandhi was 24 years old when he...
Statistically speaking, when are you going to die? Come find out!
Give us your age and gender, and we'll tell you when you'll die, using math! The last Friday of the summer season is now upon us. As the days...
Liberals Are Wrong to Separate Race from Class
Doing so undermines the cause of racial equality in general and the pursuit of equitable treatment in the criminal justice system in particular....
At college drop-off weepfest, remember these three words
Parenting doesn't stop at Freshman Week. All across the United States, people are weeping. They are sobbing, sputtering, sniveling and mewling...
A Hubble Cosmic Couple | NASA
What a spectacular sight Here we see the spectacular cosmic pairing of the star Hen 2-427 — more commonly known as WR 124 — and the nebula M1-67...
DARPA-Funded Humanoid Runs Through the Woods
The 6-foot 2-inch, 330-pound Atlas robot is the brainchild of Google Inc. subsidiary Boston Dynamics, which has received contracts from the Defense...
Dark side of the moon captured by Nasa satellite a million miles from Earth
“It’s unusual because you need a spacecraft that has gone beyond the moon to get a picture of the moon like this,” he said. “This was taken around...
Stormy Seas in Sagittarius | NASA
Some of the most breathtaking views in the Universe are created by nebulae — hot, glowing clouds of gas. This new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope...
12 Things People Regret the Most Before They Die
Life is full of choices, and many of them come with uncertainty. We can never know what might have been if we had chosen differently. No life will...