Why is an air traffic controller more likely to be a Democrat than a pilot? Why is nearly the entire entertainment industry Democratic, while the majority of surgeons are Republican?

Edmond said it was also interesting to see how “unsurprising” many of the results were.

“Most of us probably already have the notion that, say, coal miners lean to the right and environmentalists to the left, and it's amusing to see how much that's confirmed by the numbers,” he said.

"yet another indication of a foreign power probing successfully and focusing on what appears to be data that would identify people with security clearances."

Cyberattacks conducted across countries are hard to track and therefore the source of attacks is difficult to identify

"Our response to these attacks can no longer simply be notifying people after their personal information has been stolen," he said. "We must start to prevent these breaches in the first place."

Using social media as well as encrypted online communications beyond the reach of law enforcement surveillance, the terror organization is increasingly reaching new sympathizers and encouraging attacks such as the one foiled in Boston, officials said.

"The foreign terrorist now has direct access into the United States like never before

"They just need to be right once to get a terrorist attack inside the United States."

That means our brains will be able to connect directly to the cloud, where there will be thousands of computers, and those computers will augment our existing intelligence. He said the brain will connect via nanobots -- tiny robots made from DNA strands.

For those concerned with artificial intelligence taking over the world, Kurzweil said we have a moral imperative to keep developing the technology while controlling for potential dangers.

The breach could potentially affect every federal agency, officials said.

"yet another indication of a foreign power probing successfully and focusing on what appears to be data that would identify people with security clearances".

The cyber threat from hackers, criminals, terrorists and state actors is one of the greatest challenges we face on a daily basis, and it's clear that a substantial improvement in our cyber databases and defences is perilously overdue."

The lesson: to fasten to dead things in hopes of rising above the pain of time, its decays and its sicknesses and its rush toward ugliness, is actually to fall into the greatest agony of the temporal world: isolation from living creatures, great and small.

they learn new words with ease, but they seem to learn swear words especially quickly

As it turns out, there is a body of research on the neurobiology of swearing, and it largely supports the idea that the brain treats curse words as special

Swearing has an undeniable emotional component – some scientists argue that swearing is more about expressing an emotional state than articulating an actual linguistic idea. In the same vein, cursing is also considered a kind of automatic speech, as it is often used to fill space between thoughts or ideas

why we can't look away

We're compelled by horrible things, this argument goes, because it pays to scrutinise dangers that could threaten one's survival.

We crave meaning and connection, it seems, far more than cheeriness.

Americans prefer the sequel: better villains, bigger explosions.” There’s something to that. But if this earlier war has faded from national memory, its aftermath shapes American culture.

The question confronting the U.S. in 1917 was the same question that confronted Americans in 1941, and again after World War II, and now again as China rises: Who will shape world order?

A struggle against totalitarian dictatorship undertaken in alliance with Joseph Stalin? A fight for freedom that left half of Europe under communist rule? A battle against genocide that ended with the indiscriminate atomic bombing of two Japanese cities? What about the Bengal famine? The internment of Japanese Americans? Racial segregation in the U.S. armed forces?

insurers low-balled their prices in the early days of the Affordable Care Act in order to gain market share. But there is another reason: higher drug prices. Prescription drug spending increased 13.1% in 2015

ASCO dryly remarked that she could find no economic theory to explain how companies price their drugs. 

First, pharmaceutical companies can advertise directly to patients in America, which helps ensure demand. Second, price increases have been largely invisible to both patients and their doctors, in part because health-insurance plans often shield buyers from the true costs of their drugs. Third, Medicare, the public-health programme for those aged 65 and older, is the country’s largest drug customer, yet it is not allowed to negotiate prices with drug companies—with predictable results.  The new drugs war

Causes? Schoolwork, they all replied. Money. Relationships. The more they thought about what they had to do, the students said, the more paralyzed they became.

Anxiety has now surpassed depression as the most common mental health diagnosis among

college students, though depression, too, is on the rise.

Four out of five teenagers turn to the Internet for health information, but they don’t always put much stock in what they find, according to a national survey released on Tuesday.

“Everyone thinks teens don’t talk to their parents, but if they’re really worried about their symptoms, they’ll go to them

This may not sound scary, but the heat death is far worse than being burnt to a crisp. That's because nearly everything in everyday life requires some kind of temperature difference, either directly or indirectly.

This was the first evidence of a fundamentally new kind of energy, dubbed "dark energy", which didn't behave like anything else in the cosmos.

Dark energy has a peculiar property. As the universe expands, its density remains constant. That means more of it pops into existence over time, to keep pace with the increasing volume of the universe. This is unusual, but doesn't break any laws of physics.

Researchers call it the filter bubble: the personalized view of the Internet created through tech company algorithms.

For example, liberals and conservatives may rarely learn about issues that concern the other side simply because those issues never makes it into their news feeds. Over time, this could cause political polarization, because people are not exposed to topics and ideas from the opposite camp.

So on the question of whether Facebook is a force for good or ill for democracy, Aral says, "the jury is still out."

The most recent figures, from the 2013-14 academic year, show that 274,000 international students in the US hailed from China - far more than from any other country.

"I want to go where I can learn whatever I want"

China has seen a rapid development of international schools in recent years, showing the country's growing demand for a Western-style education.

A group of scientists and economists is calling for the equivalent of the Apollo space programme to produce cheap, clean energy.

Their report, launched at London’s Royal Society, says on current projections the world will exceed the 2C danger threshold of climate change by 2035.

Some experts believe that energy technology has developed so fast that it simply needs further price support to keep volumes rising and costs falling.

If you touch our shores with your corrupt enterprise, whether that is through meetings or through using our world class financial system, you will be held accountable for that corruption

Our investigation revealed that what should have been an expression of international sportsmanship was used as a vehicle in this broader scheme to line executives' pockets with bribes totalling $110 million [£71m], nearly a third of the legitimate cost of the rights to the tournaments involved,

"Nobody is above or beyond the law

College admission should be based on merit and merit alone!" say the meritocracy police

Those who make these claims are convinced that students with better grades and/or higher SAT scores are inarguably more highly qualified, and that their rejection is thus a deep injustice.

measures of only two -- linguistic and logical-mathematical -- of the eight intelligences Gardner has identified.

The report found that a person earning minimum wage in each state cannot afford to spend only 30 percent of income on such an apartment in the U.S.

There simply isn’t enough reasonably priced, decently maintained housing to meet the demand, and rapidly rising rents outpace wages. As a result, one out of four households spends more than half their income on housing costs."

It is almost as though we have forgotten the matchless healing power of relationships, a power that I can attest to, since I have been on the couch for almost 45 years with the same person.

Still, it was her warmth and consistency as much as her illuminations that were nudging me away from my puppetlike relation to my impulses.

To her mind, it was good that our relationship was that deep and strong. To my mind, too.