Dec 10 Cancer’s New Battleground: The Developing World While America has been "waging war on cancer" for more than 40 years, a greater number of people die from cancer in low- and middle-income countries than from TB, HIV/AIDS and malaria combined. In this week-long series, our partners at… Continue reading
Dec 10 Playing with Owl Puke, and Other Science Inspired Holiday Gifts Owls, like this one seen at an animal pet fair in Stuttgart, Germany, swallow their prey whole and then regurgitate what they can't digest. Photo by Marijan Murat/AFP/Getty Images. File this one under unusual science-inspired kids toys. And… Continue reading
Dec 10 Weekly Poem: ‘Providence’ Sally Keith is the author of three collections of poetry: "The Fact of the Matter" (2012, Milkweed Editions); "Design," winner of the 2000 Colorado Prize for Poetry; and "Dwelling Song," winner of the University of Georgia's Contemporary Poetry Series competition. Continue reading
Dec 10 Ask Larry: Real Danger of Old Age Is Outliving Your Savings By Paul Solman Photo by Mark Bowden via Getty Images. Larry Kotlikoff's Social Security original 34 "secrets", his additional secrets, his Social Security "mistakes" and his Social Security gotchas have prompted so many of you to write in that… Continue reading
Dec 10 Is a Fiscal Cliff Deal on the Way? President Obama speaks after the lighting of the National Christmas Tree last week. Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images. The negotiations are starting to get serious. President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner huddled privately Sunday to outline their… Continue reading
Dec 10 Watch Dangerous Conditions Remain in Bangladesh After Workers Died in Factory Fire The families of 112 garment workers in Bangladesh mourned the loss of their loved ones from a fire in November at a fashion apparel factory outside the capital of Dhaka. Hari Sreenivasan reports on the protests sparked by locked emergency… Continue watching
Dec 07 Watch Sharing Lessons in American History in 140 Characters or Less Sharing Lessons in American History in 140 Characters or Less… Continue watching
Dec 07 Watch Supreme Court Agrees to Review Laws Banning Same-Sex Marriage Supreme Court Agrees to Review Laws Banning Same-Sex Marriage… Continue watching
Dec 07 One If By Land, Two If By Tweet Paul Revere may have spread the news differently if were he alive today. Art courtesy the collection of the Paul Revere Memorial Association. John Quincy Adams is reading sermons. George Washington is monitoring intelligence on the war. Paul Revere… Continue reading
Dec 07 Farewell, Little Space Spider Nefertiti, the Johnson jumping spider hunting for flies inside her space flight habitat on board the International Space Station. Photo by NASA. Nefertiti, the courageous space spider who soared into low-Earth orbit on a Japanese HTV spacecraft, spent three… Continue reading