Month: March 2014

http://nyti.ms/1pBYaiN ONCE, I asked a class full of aspiring social entrepreneurs — all with business plans and ambitions to start nonprofits — how many of

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/03/toward-a-pill-that-helps-us-learn-as-fast-as-kids/359757/ Shannon, a 14-year-old who lives in Massachusetts, has amblyopia, a condition sometimes referred to as “lazy eye.” You can’t tell by looking at her,

http://nyti.ms/1i0wmBW As inequality has become an increasingly prominent issue in American discourse, there has been furious pushback from the right. Some conservatives argue that focusing

http://nyti.ms/1flkvfy In the debate about poverty, critics argue that government assistance saps initiative and is unaffordable. After exploring the issue, I must concede that the

http://nyti.ms/1gPcWxg Making America safe for oligarchy. It seems safe to say that “Capital in the Twenty-First Century,” the magnum opus of the French economist Thomas Piketty,

Natural Born Killers – NYTimes.com http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/06/23/books/review/the-anatomy-of-violence-by-adrian-raine.html Natural Born Killers THE ANATOMY OF VIOLENCE The Biological Roots of Crime By Adrian Raine Illustrated. 478 pp. Pantheon

http://nyti.ms/1nyYDqh Early in his career, a scientist named Mario J. Molina was pulled into seemingly obscure research about strange chemicals being spewed into the atmosphere.