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A new survey that looks at American attitudes towards global citizenship underscores the increasing sense of connection people have with international events.
The 2011 Global Involvement Survey finds that one in five U.S. adults follows international news closely, with almost half (48 percent) following international news at least once a day. Our interest and consumption of international news seems to grow with our age and probably our exposure to the world. The heavy consumer of international news tends to be a male, over 55 years old.
Some of the major stories we have seen in the past six months have literally rocked the world — Japan’s earthquakes, Osama bin Laden’s death, struggling European and

Like many Americans, I’m obsessed with disaster coverage. For the most part, the local news depresses me, but if CNN is willing to send Anderson Cooper out into the field for hours on end and broadcast it to the entire country, I’m willing to watch. Though more often than not, whatever requires such round-the-clock coverage is usually devastating to someone, somewhere, I get a strange adrenaline rush like I’m right there with the victims, toughing out the blizzard, mass transit strike or terrorist attack. Maybe it has to do with the fact that after I watched the towers fall in 2001 from my West Village street, I spent the next two weeks doing nothing but watching 24-hour coverage of the

It appears teenagers have become sentient. They’re infiltrating our society, they’ve learned how to walk upright (sort of), and they’ve even started to create their own cryptic language.
Since it’s far too late in the game to just leave them at the bowling alley and feign ignorance, you’re going to have to learn what these horrible monsters are actually saying.
Thank God for The TODAY Show.
Matt Lauer and co. have gone through Internet abbreviations and have provided subtitles so that we can all rest easy, remain unalarmed, and not have to stock up on heavy things at the Home Depot in a last-ditch effort to beat away the young.
The segment is a lifesaver, but some of the translations are, sadly, a little bit off. That’s why we’ve decided to amend a few of the definitions in the video, and we’ve also add a few that everyone should know.
Jitterpops – Polio.
Example: “That man has

Now, you listen to me, Trader Joe’s, and you listen good. I have stayed with you through the years even though you suddenly stop carrying every third item I have just decided I cannot live without; even though the goofy little attempts at comedy you put on your paper bags are about as funny as an episode of Mr. Belvedere and even though your parking lots are responsible for more near-accidents than a restroom bar on Jersey Shore.
But selling me my youth along with my groceries is starting to wear

In 2008, the political world became aware of social media’s power to turn Obama’s online presence into real votes and a White House win. Now, as the field begins to take form for the 2012 race, potential candidates are scrambling to leverage online resources to win nominations and awareness. Column Five Media poured through the politicians to give us a glimpse at who’s using social best and asked you to weigh in on which ones are actually being effective.
When it comes to politics, big numbers online don’t mean that much. Aside from having to be real (Gingrich, ahem), your followers have to be active in promoting and engaging with your campaign in order to make a real

By Jenn Pedde
University of Southern California
What did you want to be when you were younger? Most of us wanted to be doctors, nurses, or teachers because those were the professions in our childhood stories, or some of the first careers we can remember hearing about. Once we got a little older and started watching more cartoons, maybe those dreams changed to something like a pilot, farmer, or astronaut. If you’re anything like me, maybe you wanted to just be a billionaire like Scrooge McDuck in Duck Tales.
I know I wasn’t the only one influenced by television characters, so in thinking about what TV shows would best correlate with your average college major, I’ve put together a list of paired professions and their silver screen counterparts.
Major: Political Science
TV Show: The West Wing
In many ways, you can learn more about the ins and outs of Washington merely by watching this Aaron Sorkin classic than you can by taking Poli-Sci 101. True-to-life scenarios including budget battles, wartime decisions, election campaigns and Supreme Court appointments make The West Wing the consummate and authoritative

The term “Executive Function” may sound more relevant to business school than elementary school, yet it’s crucial to your child’s social and emotional development. Executive Function is a family of attention-related processes involved in planning and carrying out goal directed behavior. It predicts school readiness better than IQ scores and is a reliable forecaster of math and reading aptitudes. Because the regions of the brain associated with Executive Function are involved in the regulation of emotions and behavior, it’s no surprise that there’s good science that links Executive Function to empathy, pro-social behavior, emotional regulation, delayed gratification, and peer

“To make a way when there is no way.” Thony Ferdinand
“To listen past the noise.” Greg Carlson
“To live with discipline and joy.” Haley Malm
“To remain rooted and grateful.” Liz Butler
Intentions are a powerful way to launch the school year. As with the best ideas in any good school, this one came from a teacher. Aaron Schildkrout asked his humanities students to craft and share statements describing what it feels like to be living as your “best self.” Their stated intentions became a touchstone: Are you living up to your intention and if not, what’s keeping you from doing so? We decided to extend this process to the entire student body during our annual fall expedition to American Youth Foundation’s Camp Merrowvista in New Hampshire.
AYF’s motto is “My own self, at my very best, all the time,” which is a stunningly succinct and illuminating intention itself. Every child over the age of ten, when asked, knows whether or not this moment’s action “is being my own self, at my very best.” It make sense to roll out the reflective process of identifying and articulating intentions in the spectacularly beautiful setting of

Arianna discussed the issues surrounding job growth in America on Tuesday’s Piers Morgan Tonight.
“For many, many years now we’ve seen the lives of middle class being much more precarious,” she said. “The financial crisis since 2008…
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In the past year, Chaz Bono has become the unofficial spokesperson for the transgender community. Right now, gay marriage in the US is an issue that most people are familiar with to some extent, while transgender individuals still puzzle and scare some people. With the opposition that gay Americans have received for demanding the same rights attained by their heterosexual neighbors, you can only imagine how a transgender individual would be received. The subject itself is still very taboo and saved for satirical movies like The Rocky Horror Picture

New York City dodged a bullet with Irene, but big trouble passed more closely than most people think. If the storm surge had pushed New York Harbor about one inch higher, it could have been enough to overcome some of Lower Manhattan’s outer defenses and flood the subway system, FDR Drive, PATH and the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel, if history is a guide.
At 8:42 AM on Sunday morning, close to the peak of an unusually tall high tide, the water reached 4.8 feet above the average high tide level as measured by a gauge at the Battery. It was the sixth-highest level ever recorded for New York Harbor. The tallest mark came in 1821, at 6.5

So I know, those of you who know me are sick and tired of hearing about my food obsession, but I can’t help it, so get used to it. Lately my obsession has become more focused. Lately I have been obsessed with eggs.
“Put a fried or poached egg on just about anything and I’m in,” I recently told a friend, and I am not talking about the obvious breakfast dishes or a new spin on Eggs

Kelly Slater won the Billabong Pro Tahiti in clean double overhead waves that produced one of the greatest surf contests in competitive surfing history. The waves were so massive that the contest was actually called off Saturday because the swell was too big, a reason for not running a contest unheard of in the ASP World Tour.
And Slater, the greatest surfer to ever ride a board, was there tackling extremely challenging conditions at Teahupo’o to endure backhand barrel after wipeout after backhand barrel after snapped board after backhand barrel after being sucked over the falls after backhand barrel to win his 47th career surf contest. The greatest ambassador the sport of surfing could ever have defeated Josh Kerr in the semifinals before taking down Australian goofy footer Owen Wright 18.43 to 17.10 in a thrilling final that left Wright disappointed and Slater yet again a winner at an ASP World Tour Event, covering over two decades of sheer dominance.
“I felt like I finally hit my stride in the Semifinals this morning,” said Slater. “In the Final, I fell on a couple of waves that were maybe better than what I ended up getting scored

This blog is the second in a series to share the research of child development researchers and neuroscientists who have genuinely inspired me in my 11-year journey to create “Mind in the Making”. Their work is truly “research to live by.”
I am sharing the story of Carol Dweck of Stanford University because her studies provide important insights into unlocking the secrets of the children who don’t wilt in the face of setbacks. Like many researchers, she can trace her passion for her work to a childhood experience — in this case a fear of losing her seat in the front of her grade school class. As she tells it:
Dweck carried the question “of how children cope with challenges and setbacks” into graduate school, where she had another formative experience:
To unlock their secrets, Dweck did another study where she gave fifth-grade children tasks (like those found on intelligence tests) that became increasingly

Should a teacher be sued for describing creationism as “superstitious nonsense”?
This question involves a lawsuit against California history teacher James Corbett. In 2007, a former student sued Corbett for a pattern of hostility “toward religion and favoring irreligion over religion.” The student produced secret recordings of Corbett as evidence.
In 2009, a judge considered Corbett’s statements and found only one — that creationism is “superstitious nonsense” — to be an “improper disapproval of religion in violation of the Establishment Clause,” and therefore an infringement of the student’s rights. To the amazement of educators and scientists across the country, the court ruled against Corbett and found this one statement in class to have been

The headlines still haunt us. New Orleans is under water. Hurricane Katrina leaves thousands without food, water and shelter. Entire communities destroyed by

Google Chairman Eric Schmidt was the first non-television exec to deliver the McTaggart Lecture at the Media Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival last night. A core part of his talk was on the state of “UK education”, and how “over the past century, the UK has stopped nurturing its polymaths. You need to bring art and science back together.” Britain should look to the “glory days” of the Victorian era for reminders of how the two disciplines can work together, he said.
It’s a shame, though, that he didn’t Google a little more on the education system of the country in which he was

I came home Monday night, took one look at my wife, and knew something was desperately wrong.
“Honey, what is it?” I asked, half inquiring, half — by way of my sheepish intonation — signaling my acceptance of the blame for whatever was awry in her life.
“The refrigerator…. It’s dead.”
“Dead, as in finito? Beyond any reasonable hope of repair?”
“Dead as in last week’s vegetable lasagna is lying in the sink, a disgusting, slimy

Well, it’s August again. So life is pretty much over.
“At least I have August!” you thought in June and July, before June and July filled up with garbage.
“Sure I can spend June and July reading comic books and catching up on True Blood. I’ve got August! August is when I’ll really get into it! Hikes. Beach

The alarm went off at its usual time. Tom got up to take a shower, and I could hear the water running in the guest bathroom, as well. My brother had spent the previous night watching Monday Night Football with us and was headed into the city with Tom. Within a few hours they would say their goodbyes at the World Trade

Hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis, wildfires and volcanic eruptions inevitably bring out the tired idea that natural disasters are a warning from god. Sinners beware. Perennial predictor of doom Pat Robertson said that the earthquake in Virginia was “one of the signs of the end.” Remember that he noted after the disaster in Haiti in 2010 that god was punishing those particular heathens for making a “pact to the devil.” He said further that the Haitian earthquake was a “blessing in disguise,” an idea that might have caused some disagreement among those mourning their dead and the injured, sick and homeless. Remember, too, that Robertson also claimed that Hurricane Katrina was god’s punishment for legalized abortion, and that Florida’s weather woes are due to the state’s support for Gay Days at

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, were a national and personal tragedy. It was one of the darkest days in the history of America. Many of us knew people who died that day at the World Trade Center.
But it was also a day of resolve.
For those of us who have been combating hate for decades, we realized that because of the enormous tragedy, Americans could now understand viscerally what they understood only in the abstract until then — that hate affects us

The other night, a bunch of us were out at Souen, this superhealthy, macrobiotic restaurant near Union Square, which has been serving patchouli-scented, hummus-eating healthy people since the early ’70s. This was at the request of my friend Julie, who is a vegetarian. The food was good (I had some garlicky greens) and as much as I love a good cheeseburger, I got really into that feeling of filling my body with something indisputably healthy. My dish was so tasty–truly tasty, not just tasty-for-healthy-food tasty–in fact, that I had fantasy flashes of revamping my life so as to incorporate more kale.
It was all good until

It’s a new school year, which means seeing lots of new faces and faces that I might not have seen in a long time. One such face walked up to me and said the prerequisite “Hello,” and before I could even say hello back, she went on to say, “I am divorced.” Not the type of hello you look forward to first thing in the morning!
I don’t know what it is that makes people seek me out to tell me about their own divorce. This woman had not seen me in years and did not know about my coaching practice or the dating site that I have launched. She did not know that I am immersed in the world of