On Last Week Tonight, perhaps to balance out his less-than-friendly main segment on Obama’s drone policies, John Oliver asked a question that has bothered people about Ayn Rand since she first emerged in the middle of the twentieth century: why are people into this dreck?

GE and the Gates Foundation take very different routes to reusing wastewater.

For most of their lives, bilinguals might not show any real benefits. The true edge may come far later.

Fake birth certificates, ghostwriters, teleprompters, a teenage trip to Mars, and more of the most paranoid and bizarro Obama conspiracy theories out there.

As media coverage focused on the Paris terror attacks, over 2000 Nigerians were reported to have been killed by Islamist militants. What makes one massacre more newsworthy than another?

A history of the fight that got kink de-classified as mental illness.

Amateur video obtained by an American tourist visiting a park when the earthquake struck shows how dynamic the ground can be. The ground can be seen opening and closing, with some areas spurting water to the surface.

Tim Parks: Now that the whole world is my neighbor, my immediate Internet neighbor, do I make any concessions at all, or do I uphold the ancient tradition of satire at all costs?

Raif Badawi was sentenced to 1,000 lashes and 10 years in prison, and the world has watched on in horror.

Fox News is in trouble for booking an expert who claimed that Birmingham is a 'Muslim-only' city. But that gaffe is far, far from the most ridiculous thing the news channel has done… recently.

Journalists at Haaretz, the liberal Israeli newspaper, have received death threats after they published a cartoon juxtaposing the number of reporters killed while covering the Gaza war with those killed in the Charlie Hebdo attack.

Teju Cole: It is possible to defend the right to obscene and racist speech without promoting or sponsoring the content of that speech.

Its most deleterious effect: The proliferation of charter schools means underperforming children get left behind.

Statista has looked at notable instances where European wildlife populations have increased, using data from a Zoological Society of London report published last year and from the LCIE. In the case of the Eurasian beaver, the population has increased by 28,028 per cent since 1990.

In a last-gasp effort to prevent an already depressed European economy from tumbling into an deflationary spiral, the European Central Bank announced a program of quantitative easing. But what does that mean?

Alan Moore has challenged the world's great religions to 'clean up their act' in the wake of the murder of cartoonists on the Charlie Hebdo magazine in France.

A new study links a chemical found in 'BPA Free' products to fetal brain abnormalities in zebrafish.

From Hogarth to Van Gogh, art has challenged and shaped our understanding of mental illness. 

Macmillan Science and Education looks set to gain from Springer's scale.

Gary Alan Fine: Governments must protect the right to disagree. While we should not ban culinary arts or journalistic practices, good neighbors properly take the sensitivities of others into account, while their opponents must recognize these preferences.

The terrorist attacks in the French capital prompted a wave of public outrage and solidarity. But in the days since, politicians and others have seized on the events to push different agendas.

The ex-pat artist Robert Crumb, who has lived in France for 25 years, discusses his new cartoon of Muhammed.

The acclaimed graphic artist and journalist Joe Sacco on the limits of satire – and what it means if Muslims don’t find it funny.

The Islamophobic rhetoric spewed by right-wing media in response to the deadly attack on the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris is just the most recent in a long history of conservative anti-Islam vitriol.