Technopolis

A CBS News/New York Times Poll shows the American public in a gloomy mood about the nation's future and, in general, buying the arg...

From NUNATSIAQ NEWS "The Arctic air, land and water continue to change as the  world's climate changes, says the 2010 State ...

In 2003 I carried a sign at a local protest demonstration against the impending war and occupation in Iraq: "How much will the war ...

Add a founding father, subtract a founding father.  Who cares?!!! In an exchange with George Stephanopoli recently, Michele Bachmann a...

This video clip from the BBC has to be the best example of the sick mentality of U.S. millionaires & billionaires currently available....

One of the year's most astonishing developments in news about technology is that of tsunami and floods around nuclear power plants. T...

Marriage equality law in New York: how far we've come The fact that one of the deciding votes on marriage equality came from a ...

Top Ten Secrets of Innovation Revealed After years of reading the literature on “innovation” and listening to discussions among academics,...

Comparing the flow of news: Middle East vs. U.S.A. Juan Cole's piece, "Our News and the News," compares recent headlines from...

Beyond Techno-triumphalism In late May I visited Denton, Texas for the 17 th International Conference of the Society for Philosophy and Tec...

A Conceptual Map of the Real Democracy Now! demonstrations in Spain While it helps to have a Spanish dictionary at hand, the basic landscape...

Photo from the Real Democracy Now! movement in Madrid

Manifesto of the Real Democracy Now (¡Democracia Real YA!) movement Here's the English translation of a Manifesto issued by the movement...

Nuclear power plant troubles in Japan: three perspectives A plausible analysis of the immediate predicament at the Japanese nuclear power pl...

America's Soviet-style TV I downloaded the app for Al Jazeera on my Android phone and it works fine. Just now there was an intelligent ...

Great Movie: No Puedo Vivir Sin Ti A film that I suggested for the Film Columbia festival, “No Puedo Vivir Sin Ti” (“I Can’t Live Without Yo...

Thoughts on the Nobel Peace Prize for Barack Obama The award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Barack Obama came as a shock to many people, ...

Global citizens deliberate and vote on Global Warming policies (from the organization's web page ) "On September 26, 2009, World Wi...

Widespread attempts by Teabagger healthcare reform protestors to completely disrupt the congressional town hall meetings raise an interestin...

At the wonderful, but lamentably very wet, Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, I visited a porta-potty. On the wall was a printed message: "Y...

At Obama's press conference last Wednesday, the main headline concerned an ugly racial incident in Cambridge, Massachusetts involving th...

An interesting post in Daily Kos , "WORDS YOU'LL NEVER HEAR IN THE CANADIAN HEALTHCARE SYSTEM," describes understandings and p...

Insurance companies are to today's health, as leeches were to medieval medicine. Just one example .

The Apollo 11 Moon landing: a hollow anniversary It’s fully predictable that the fortieth anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission would be caus...