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Epistemology

Internet turning us into ‘superficial thinkers,’ says researcher

Environment

By subjecting ourselves to constant streams of information from the internet, we could eventually lose ability to be contemplative and introspective.

Manual work in the information economy

Business, Economics and Jobs

HIV infections may be declining in South Africa

Health & Medicine

Latin America’s New Middle Class

NOVA Science Show Considers What Makes Us Human

The World

Show Producer’s Blog: Kony 2012

I have written for years about heartbreaking issues of war and atrocity and the shortfall between international rhetoric and action. I’ve often struggled with the apparent mismatch between the horror of what’s going on and people’s blithe ignorance of it. But knowledge isn’t everything […]

The Origin of AIDS: 60 Years Before the First Documented Case

By most accounts, the history of AIDS begins sometime in the late 1970s, before the first official cases were diagnosed in 1981 among a handful of gay men. But a striking new book by Dr. Jacques Pépin, an infectious disease specialist at the University of Sherbrooke in Quebec, upends medical history. In “The Origins of […]

The World

The Nature of Death

Given our complex language and reasoning abilities, do human beings understand more about death and mortality than other animals…or do we just think we do? Upon witnessing the death of several small creatures, commentator Tom Montgomery-Fate reflects on what we may not know about the ending of life.

The Living on Earth Almanac

This week, facts about the Census and what all the numbers really mean.

The World

Why you should consider a new job, despite tough times

Business, Economics and Jobs

With unemployment above 10 percent, it’s harder to find a job now than it has been in decades. So it might seem strange to say you should consider looking for something new … but that’s the advice of two work experts we speak to today.