Dumb and Dumber: Are Americans Hostile to Knowledge?
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Susan Jacoby's new book bemoans the state of American culture. Not only are citizens ignorant about essential knowledge, she says, but they also donât think it matters.
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By WILLIAM REES-MOGG Ten years ago, an American analyst, James Davidson, and I published a book on the prospects for the information age, The Sovereign Individual. When I reread it now, it seems rather a good book, with a number of insights that have proved correct.
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BERLIN, Sep 12 (IPS) - Asking questions. This everyday activity is the key  to sowing the seeds of change according to Dropping Knowledge, a  German-U.S. non-governmental organisation which hopes to  germinate those seeds online, and create an unprecedented  database of the pressing social themes of our times.
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Americans aren't more inventive than other people, but they innovate. A PBS documentary airing this week details how Americans create new industries with their inventions -- an additional step that makes all the difference. By Jason Silverman.
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Rethinking privacy in an immodest age.
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Experts in a field can benefit from an outsiderâs perspective.
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A lot of Bush haters are United States citizens.  Many feel they must now leave their country and renounce their citizenship, and feel trapped that they can't.  Many Bush supporters are taking glee in encouraging them to do so, knowing full well many have no options for emigration.  The problem is both "liberals" and "conservatives" have forgotten the United States is about much more than "democracy".  It is about a laboratory of the States within which migration and eminent domain support the pursuit of happiness by providing a mutual defense system for peoples experimenting with their own widely varying belief systems.
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Some demographics and details from the AP-AOL Instant Messaging Survey on attitudes about high-tech communication. The survey was conducted by Knowledge Networks, which conducts polls online.
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Americans are boldly speaking their minds, even when others would prefer they didn't.
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For years, political scientists assumed our political leanings came from the way we were raised and the company we keep. You're a screaming liberal? Must be because you were raised in a household full of screaming liberals. You're an arch conservative? Must be because of that college you went to.
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I see that Cory Doctorow has made another panicked grab at relevancy once again! His most recent InformationWeek article, How To Keep Hostile Jerks From Taking Over Your Online Community, is his latest exercise in self-deception where he tries convincing himself that he knows something about the hip, happenin' thang we call the Innanet.        That Cory has little useful knowledge of keeping hostile jerks from taking over online communities is proven most aptly and amusingly by the way he chose to keep hostile jerks from taking over his weblog BoingBoing: he destroyed its community by shutting off its comments system.
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Also: Paul Allen project maps the brain. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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Can Wi-Fi signals make you ill? Newshounds pore over the available literature, but miss something interesting about the claims
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With privileged access and technological knowledge, IT workers can unexpectedly find themselves in ethically sticky situations. Do they blow the whistle or look the other way?
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Where do stereotypes, like jokes about dumb blondes, come from? An armchair economic analysis suggests some intriguing possibilities.
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Cancer patients, gay couples and snowmen: voters, not journalists, asked the questions at the CNN-YouTube debate. Was it a breakthrough for democracy or a publicity stunt?
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Sharpen your knowledge of Foolish fundamentals.