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Even West Africans Who Don’t Catch Ebola Are Being Hurt By the Disease
Ebola’s toll is more than just a body count
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Arts Degrees: Not Entirely Worthless
Recent graduates of arts degrees report high job satisfaction and employment numbers
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Wind Power is Actually Cheaper Than Coal, Nuclear and Gas
Once you consider the downstream consequences, coal becomes a lot more expensive
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Twitter Payments Will Put Hashtag Activists on the Spot
Maybe it’s time to actually #DoSomething
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At the National Museum of Natural History, leading minds met to discuss the impact of climate change on, well, everything
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To Live in the Anthropocene, People Need Grounded Hope
A Smithsonian symposium about human impacts on Earth looked past warnings of global doom to discuss the necessary balance of achievable solutions
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Thomas Duncan, Dallas’ Ebola Patient, Has Died
The total cost of fighting Ebola could push $32 billion
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The Housing Recovery Isn’t Helping the Families the Crash Hurt Most
The housing crash hurt lower income families most
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The Waters Around Malaysia, Not Somalia, Are the World’s Worst for Pirates
More than 40 percent of pirate attacks over the last two decades took place in Southeast Asia
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Three Short Answers to Why Alibaba’s Worth So Much
Alibaba just raised $21.8 billion during its initial public offering
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Quentin Tarantino And Judd Apatow Agree: Kodak Film Can’t Disappear—They Need It
Some of Hollywood’s most famous directors are pressing studios to buy Kodak film—before it’s too late
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The Average American Household Lost a Third of Its Net Worth During the Recession
A new study shows how much, exactly, the 2008 recession contributed to rising inequality in America
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In U.S. High Schools, Full-Time International Students Now Outnumber Exchange Students
Public schools are actively recruiting tuition-paying foreign students
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College Students Are Now Paying Extra to Learn Actually Useful Skills
Companies, unaffiliated with universities, are offering courses that provide practical workforce training
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For Some American Women, It’s Become the Norm to Have Babies Without Being Married
Women who don’t complete college are much more likely to have a child outside of wedlock than those who hold a bachelor’s degree
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The Jihadists That Just Attacked Iraq’s Oil Fields May Already Have More Than $2 Billion in Assets
ISIS is an incredibly well-financed terrorist organization
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When People Are Stressed Financially, Their Racial Biases Escalate
White study participants view biracial faces as “more black” when times are tough
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Statistics Say That Brazil Will Probably Win the World Cup
Analyzing players’ transfer values to calculate a team’s overall market value, however, predicts that Spain will win
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The Nobel Prize in Physics for the Discovery of Neutrons Was Auctioned Off This Week
The prize fetched more than Faulkner’s Nobel, but less than Crick’s
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This Company Sold More Beer by Helping Waitresses Get Home Late at Night
Anthropology can have relevance for the business world—just ask this beer company
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