We pick the comics that will blow your mind. Source: www.businessinsider.com As much as the movies and technology are helping the industry, however, even more credit should go to comic book creators. Most comics are simply better these days — and… Continue reading

Batman may be a straight white rich guy, but many of the key people in his life are anything but. Source: www.advocate.com I’ve been reading the eight or so New 52 titles associated with Batman. And it is impressive to… Continue reading

In a graphic, interactive investigation by Adam Bessie and Dan Carino, take a look under the hood of The Gates Foundation’s multimillion dollar public relations machine designed to turn you into an education reformer. Source: www.truth-out.org Continue reading

Researchers have developed a new type of solar concentrator that when placed over a window creates solar energy while allowing people to actually see through the window. It is called a transparent luminescent solar concentrator and can be used on… Continue reading

The conservative hero’s fiery 2012 dissent on same-sex marriage could be his most influential opinion—but not in the way he intended. Source: m.theatlantic.com Continue reading

…isn’t something that can be done on campus. It’s an internship. Source: m.theatlantic.com Continue reading

A team of scientists generated a giant cosmic simulation—and now they’re giving it away. Source: www.symmetrymagazine.org Visualize, behold, consider. Continue reading

The “Last Week Tonight” host isn’t interested in offering a balm for tough times. He wants you to pay attention VIDEO Source: www.salon.com Indeed. Without catering to advertisers, Oliver need only speak truth and let the message get through without… Continue reading

In the murky world of unpaid bills, a banker and an ex-con can make a fortune — if they don’t run into too many crooks. Source: www.nytimes.com Continue reading

Japan should officially be known as the land of themed cafés. From cat cafés to owl cafés, character cafés and maid cafés… there’s even a café where you can pay 980 yen (US$9.57) to get two young men to share a… Continue reading

…how many Twitter followers they have? LinkedIn Connections? Instagram followers? Do you know if they have a blog/tumblr? Do you have any idea at all what kind of network that person will be bringing into your organization? Why not? No,…… Continue reading

A recent study put the US at number 31 in the world in overall download speed, lagging behind much smaller countries like Estonia, Hungary, and Slovakia. Source: truth-out.org Continue reading

although the challenges of connecting people sound the same, every trip offers up a new angle on what connectivity means to the locals: its impact on gender roles in India; the rise of love-marriages in Afghanistan; a more level playing… Continue reading