Spiegel: Can a climate catastrophe still be averted? Scientists voice pessimism in a new study, which concludes that no matter what the Western industrialized nations do, China's greenhouse emissions will be hard to stop. It sounds like wishful thinking: The United States, under new President Barack...

Spiegel: Can a climate catastrophe still be averted? Scientists voice pessimism in a new study, which concludes that no matter what the Western industrialized nations do, China's greenhouse emissions will be hard to stop. It sounds like wishful thinking: The United States, under new President Barack...

Spiegel: Can a climate catastrophe still be averted? Scientists voice pessimism in a new study, which concludes that no matter what the Western industrialized nations do, China's greenhouse emissions will be hard to stop. It sounds like wishful thinking: The United States, under new President Barack...

Spiegel: Can a climate catastrophe still be averted? Scientists voice pessimism in a new study, which concludes that no matter what the Western industrialized nations do, China's greenhouse emissions will be hard to stop. It sounds like wishful thinking: The United States, under new President Barack...

Bachmann likes to portray herself as a fiscal conservative, fighting against government waste and pork-barrel spending. But when Bachmann was in the Minnesota State Senate, she co-sponsored a bill for a ridiculous boondoggle called Personal Rapid Transit (PRT). Bachmann was one of the original Pod S...

I teach college classes on innovation, as well as speak regularly on the topic.  And I am frequenty asked how to determine whether new products are sustaining innovations, or disruptive ones.  In 2008, the most common product I was asked about was the iPhone.  To me the answer was obvious.  As a...

Following up on our collection from last month, here's a list of some of the better articles on MediaMouse.org posted over the last month. As always, please let us know in the comments if you think we missed anything that we should have covered... Economic Crisis Shock Doctrine" Author, Naomi Klein ...

So, the much promoted stimulus plan from the Obama administration has been passed. And despite all the rhetoric around the new administration's desire for this to be a bipartisan plan, the Senate and the House pretty much voted along party lines. One thing I noticed during the weeks that led up to t...

An ITDP proposal for BRT on 34th Street. Rendering by Luc Nadal and Mark De Decker. This is the third of four installments in our interview with ITDP director Walter Hook about Bus Rapid Transit in New York City. Be sure to catch the first and second parts if you haven't yet. In this installment Hoo...

In response to WOOD TV 8's decision not to air an anti-gay program produced by the American Family Association (AFA), the group is charging that they are being silenced by "homosexual activists" who are opposed to religious freedom. The group is upset not only that the program was pulled from WOOD T...