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The 10 weirdest uses for a smartphone

If you're using your smartphone only to make calls, check your email, surf the Web, manage your schedule, take photos, shoot video, listen to music, watch movies, navigate via GPS, play video games, and update your Twitter and Facebook statuses, then you're really nothing more than a Luddite.
World's top 10 universities, Harvard leads again

Times Higher Education, the United Kingdom's leading higher education news publication, today released its first-ever international university rankings. American universities dominate the top of the Times list, faring much better than in rankings released last week by former Times partner Quacquarelli Symonds. The disparate results have already prompted debate about the criteria for evaluating and ranking universities.
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Green Economics
Will climate change lead to culture change?

Some worry that society will have to suffer total collapse and rebuild itself in the face of climate change. But does it really have to be that drastic?
Did Berkeley's 'racist' bake sale go too far?

College Republicans at the University of California in Berkeley held a bake sale that priced baked goods at different prices for different ethnicities. Was it effective satire or over the top?
Green Economics
NASCAR goes green

Will fans follow suit?
Green Economics
Do 'green buildings' come with a higher price tag?

The initial cost may be higher, but if the price of electricity in your area is high, energy efficient construction is a smart financial move
Chapter & Verse
What kind of books do they sell in your neighborhood?

When Seattle's Elliott Bay Book Co. changed neighborhoods, it also tweaked its stock.
'Sister Wives' family sues to prevent prosecution for polygamy

Kody Brown, star of TLC's 'Sister Wives,' files suit in federal court seeking to prevent prosecution for polygamy under Utah law. The case may force another reexamination of laws governing sexual choices and lifestyles.
Mother's Day: Are you mothering your kids the 'right' way?

This Mother's Day, let's take stock of the culture of judgment that surrounds parenting. The ideological battle lines on breast-feeding, vaccinations, sleep training, and disposable diapers are fierce. That's why I'm singing that battle hymn of the moderate mother.
Small is big: a cellphone chip that allows monthly battery charge

When small is big: Tinier chips demand less energy and could produce a cellphone that needs a battery charge only once a month.
Green Economics
California should sell its prison with a bay view

San Quentin Prison, near the San Francisco Bay, sits property worth a lot of money—money that the state could use.
The 10 weirdest uses for a smartphone

If you're using your smartphone only to make calls, check your email, surf the Web, manage your schedule, take photos, shoot video, listen to music, watch movies, navigate via GPS, play video games, and update your Twitter and Facebook statuses, then you're really nothing more than a Luddite.
Green Economics
Do liberals stunt population growth?

Home prices are higher and population growth is lower in some liberal parts of the country.
From bureaucrat to businessman: Orszag's path reveals what really seals deals

Peter Orszag is an economic policy wonk who was director of the Office of Management and Budget. But Citigroup hired him less for his PhD or analytical dexterity than for his 'social capital.' It's a potent reminder that in business, as in politics, who you know (or who wants to know you) often counts more than that what you know.
Chapter & Verse
The 'n'-word gone from Huck Finn – what would Mark Twain say?

A new expurgated edition of 'Huckleberry Finn' has got some Twain scholars up in arms.
Julian Assange, in his own words, about WikiLeaks' foes (VIDEO)

WikiLeaks' Julian Assange, at a seminar at UC Berkeley earlier this year, described surveillance of his organization – and a cyberattack he said came from China.
ThinkMarkets
Pseudo-scientific attacks on social sciences

Many attacks on social sciences come from limited and antiquated views of how the physical sciences proceed.
Other Earths? A new estimate raises the odds of finding them.

Researchers predict finding many Earth-sized planets around sun-like stars, right in our own galaxy. But don't pack your bags just yet – you might not want to live on them.
Commonwealth Games: Best and worst of times for India to attract foreign capital

India's private sector is strong, but the public sector's mismanagement of the Commonwealth Games may have tarnished the image of India as an investment opportunity, say economic analysts.
Pentagon must stop 'don't ask, don't tell,' federal judge rules

Judge Virginia Phillips on Tuesday ordered the Pentagon to stop enforcing its 'don't ask, don't tell' ban on openly gay service members. Though experts say the ruling would likely be overturned on appeal, it is an important moment for the gay-rights movement.
Eddie Fisher remembered for pop songs, movies, and marriages

Eddie Fisher sold millions of records in the 1950s with 32 hit songs. He married five times, including to movie stars Debbie Reynolds and Elizabeth Taylor. Fisher died Wednesday and is survived by two daughters who followed him into acting.
World's top 10 universities, Harvard leads again

Times Higher Education, the United Kingdom's leading higher education news publication, today released its first-ever international university rankings. American universities dominate the top of the Times list, faring much better than in rankings released last week by former Times partner Quacquarelli Symonds. The disparate results have already prompted debate about the criteria for evaluating and ranking universities.
Green Economics
Solar cars and homes and panels. Oh, my!

If you own a solar home, should you charge your solar car there?
Green Economics
Warming and a limited future? No!

A reviewer of my new book on global warming takes me to task for ignoring the world's finiteness. Is human capacity really finite?
Africa Monitor
Kagame's Rwanda election win may bring Singapore-style authoritarian rule

Rwanda election winner Paul Kagame has expressed doubts about the wisdom of importing democracy, favoring a government similar to Singapore, where authoritarian rule oversaw steep economic growth.
The New Economy
Christina Romer: Who will replace her as Obama's economic adviser?

Christina Romer is leaving as chair of the Council of Economic Advisers. Two front-runners have emerged to replace Christina Romer: Austan Goolsbee and Laura Tyson.
The New Economy
Christina Romer: second adviser to leave Obama economic team

Christina Romer, one of President Obama's key economic advisers, is returning to teach at UC Berkeley. Christina Romer was instrumental in crafting the $789 billion stimulus package passed just months into her tenure.