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Former Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian made history on Tuesday as the first former president to get taken to jail. Chen, who left office in May amid scandal, held his handcuffs high and shouted, "Political persecution!" and "Cheers for Taiwan!" as he was led to the Taipei District Court, arrested...
Are we just lazy? We do what's easy for us. We're evolutionarily wired to behave like that because we're supposed to save our energy for when the lion attacks and we have to run very, very fast. We will conserve our own energy if we can. We...
What do Rosary Beads and Red Bull have in common? A lot, it seems. Marketing guru Lindstrom and his team hooked up 65 people to special MRI machines to find out what their brains revealed about the connection between religion and brand loyalty. For days, the researchers ran images--like...
The Gist: In his latest book, the Stanford professor and Wired columnist rails against the nation's copyright laws - regulations he believes are futile, costly and culturally stifling. Citing "hybrid" economies like YouTube and Wikipedia (both of which rely on user-generated "remixes" of information, images and sound), Lessig argues...
They are different in so many ways: one Republican, one Democrat; one in his 70s, one in his 40s; one white, one black. But John McCain and Barack Obama share the genome of the alpha pol. Timing and instinct are among the dominant traits. How else to explain the fact...