THE POWER OF KNOWLEDGE

“Whatever problem you’re struggling with is probably addressed in some book somewhere written by someone a lot smarter than you.”

Lately, Hollywood has been taking so much shit for rampant sexism and racism. The prevailing theme: white men dominate movie roles.

Molecular biologists and neuroscientists are tweeting with the hashtag #ASAPbio in protest of a system that keeps research from being shared with the public, typically for more than six months.

Until feminism recognizes discrimination against men, the movement for gender equality will be incomplete.

For many female leaders, starting their own companies is the only alternative to hitting the glass ceiling at existing ones—in fiction and in life.

For the past two weeks in Amsterdam the World Press Photo judges have been deliberating hard to pick this year’s winning images

The mother, and manager, of reality TV’s most famous clan has created a strange new form of family business — and changed the nature of celebrity.

Co-organizers Sam Lavigne and Amelia Winger-Bearskin solicit projects that use tech to critique tech culture.

Would you trust a stranger with your kids?

Within 10 years, earpieces will whisper nearly simultaneous translations—and help knit the world closer together

Catcallers have gotten mixed press in recent years. Through sting videos, photo essays, and apologist editorials, women have plumbed the complexities o ...

Education officials across China are aggressively recruiting male teachers, as the Chinese news media warn of a need to “salvage masculinity in schools.”

A man who helped set off the 2011 Tahrir Square uprising in Egypt has drawn some conclusions about “Facebook revolutions.”

A British exit would deal a serious blow to a European Union already battered by an economic crisis and an immigration crisis.

"This is like A Clockwork Orange."

A team of clinicians and researchers is trying to understand the importance of deathbed dreams to help the ill and the bereaved.