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Eva Glettner: Mark Frauenfelder Knows a Thing or Two About Raising Daughters -- TSA, Are You Listening?

2013-06-19T18:42:45Z

Girls are consistently being bombarded with confusing messages from the public. I asked Mark to offer advice to parents raising girls in this confusing time.
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Elizabeth Denham: Dating in the Age of Facebook

2013-06-19T18:42:41Z

Most of us who have ventured back out into dating in the age of social media have pondered this question. And many of us have regretted adding someone too soon.
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Carol Kellermann: Remaining The World's Most Competitive City

2013-06-19T18:41:28Z

Highly educated talent is mobile and New York City, the center of the metro area, needs to advance policies that attract, retain and cultivate that talent.
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Dr. Michael J. Feuer: Proceed With Caution: New Report Falls Short in Complex Task of Evaluating Teacher Education

2013-06-19T18:37:53Z

There is surely room for improvement in the world of teacher preparation -- as there is in all professions -- but the NCTQ report provides an inadequate basis upon which to design and implement positive reforms.
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Varda Epstein: Summer, Siblings, and Coping With Disability

2013-06-19T18:36:05Z

Summer vacation is just around the bend. But for parents of children with learning and other disabilities, the term is relative. One parent's summer vacation may be another parent's busiest time of the year -- or even a nightmare come to life.
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Jessica Joseph: Homophobia and Racism: Similar Methodologies of Dehumanization

2013-06-19T18:34:40Z

This is not a "who had/has it worse than whom" or a "which trait is more deserving of equal rights" contest. This exploration is about the systematic tactics employed by racists and homophobes to instill a negative self-perception in others and how strikingly similar they are.
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Adam Bailey: Unbridled Voting

2013-06-19T18:34:14Z

Tuesday, May 13, 2008, felt like the biggest date in my life. I had my outfit perfectly planned and my schedule cleared. The activities started before seven that morning and lasted into the night.
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Russell C. Smith: Digital Fire: Give Us This Day Our Daily Tech

2013-06-19T18:29:51Z

The Internet poses two questions to people every day: What are you wishing (searching) for right now? How much change (acceleration) can a culture endure in a short span of time?

A familiar trope in Sci-fi movies has the visitor from the past stuck in front of a television for several hours to get up to speed on our "improved" present day. These time travelers are usually shocked by our violence, delighted by new inventions, and terrified of the newest dance craze. Over the course of history, new technologies have created global shifts and fueled the forward momentum of countries and empires.

Every new invention--from the mobile cannon to movable type--has left its mark on humankind. The current technology impacting people on a worldwide scale is the Internet, and we are just beginning to understand its impact on our daily lives. And since the web has morphed into the mobile web, more people are exposed to the usefulness and wonder and ridiculousness of unlimited access to the Internet.

Susan Campos: 5 Reasons to Get Along With Your Ex

2013-06-19T18:28:59Z

Last week, my ex-husband and his wife took residence in a shiny new split-level some 15 short steps from the Los Angeles home I share with my teen-aged son. When I informed my friends and family they thought we were crazy. But isn't it better to make an ex an ally rather than an enemy?
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Maria Pulcinella Murray: Paul McCartney Dominates Bonnaroo 2013

2013-06-19T18:28:05Z

For anyone born in the last quarter century who wondered whether Paul McCartney's allotted two-and-a-half-hour set would be "too much" for the 70-year-old Beatle was justly put to shame Friday night.
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Dr. Charles G. Cogan: Better Read Than Dead

2013-06-19T18:27:25Z

I am not overly concerned at the idea that my emails might be read or my phone calls listened to. Apart from the fact that I am discreet about what I put on the open media, consider the alternatives.

Gen. Keith Alexander, the head of NSA, has testified that "dozens" of terrorist operations have been foiled by NSA's highly sophisticated intelligence collection techniques, which include the recently revealed "metadata" and Prism.

Gen. Alexander is an honorable man, subject to the code of military honor. Why not accept what he says at face value? Personally, I'd rather be read than dead.

K. Sujata: This Land Is Your Land

2013-06-19T18:23:43Z

Immigration reform is a women's issue. We need an immigration reform bill that keeps women and their children together, and brings women out from the shadows and gives them protection under the law.
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Uloop: AP Record Seizures' Impact on Future Journalists

2013-06-19T18:22:41Z

The U.S. government has been under much scrutiny lately because of the possible illegality in the seizure of Associated Press (AP) records. But how does the seizure impact future journalists?
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Janet M. Hively, Ph.D.: Adapting to a World Without Jobs

2013-06-19T18:21:03Z

Older workers who are creative and entrepreneurial are taking advantage of this shift in the labor market, seizing it as an opportunity to work past retirement age without being tied to a nine-to-five schedule.
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Justin Guay: Dr. Kim's Deadly New Coal Plant?

2013-06-19T18:18:02Z

That's a headline I never imagined I'd write. Those who follow the World Bank have grown painfully accustomed to ample rhetoric followed by limited results. It's par for the course. But even the most cynical and hardened rejoiced at the thought of a public health champion at the helm of this notoriously recalcitrant institution. But far from steering this ship in the right direction, Dr. Kim is on the verge of overseeing his first deadly new coal plant.

Dr. Kim's new coal plant is a highly controversial project planned in Kosovo which has been described by Kim as a nightmare scenario where Kosovars are 'freezing to death' because they lack energy. Dr. Kim used those words to justify a painful trade off - a highly polluting new coal plant in a country where 835 people die from coal every year. Yes another coal plant that will kill people is needed to avoid more death by freezing. Is this the kind of tradeoff a pre- World Bank Dr. Kim would have accepted?

But fret not this is going to be the 'cleanest' plant possible - at least according to the World Bank. The problem is as our friends at Waterkeeper Alliance say "Clean Coal is a Dirty Lie." There's simply no way to make coal clean. Along its whole life cycle from mining, to transport, to combustion to waste disposal coal leaves a toxic legacy of heavy metals, radioactive material, and deadly air pollution. But even so, pollution control technology exists and there's a big difference between the 'best available' and the status quo.