Tag: Robin Young
Facebook helps foment revolution in Egypt and Tunisia
Social media is helping dissidents rise up against the government in Egypt and Tunisia, and social media companies are helping....
China's far-from universal health care
By 2020, the Chinese government wants to extend health care to all of its 1.3 billion citizens. The job won't be easy. ...
How to be happy with what you have
A psychologist looks into what makes people happy. He finds that people should be thankful for what they've got....
Study: there are too many parking spaces
The environmental impact of parking spaces may rival that of the cars that fill them....
Bringing world literature to the United States
Americans don't read literature from other countries, but some organizations are working to change that....
The Best Blogs of 2010
The staff at PCMag.com compiled a list of their 50 favorite blogs of 2010 -- see which blogs made it and which didn't....
'The Sounds of Star Wars'
The surprisingly natural tools used to make the sound effects in "Star Wars" are explained in J. R. Rizler's new book....
Teaching assistants outsourced to Asia
Colleges are outsourcing the grading of papers to India, and students may not know that they're writing for "virtual TAs."...
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