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The Secret To Capturing People’s Attention In The Informational Age, According To Science

(Medical Daily) - In the age of information, companies vie for people’s attention — media corporations like HBO or NBC tailor new TV shows to millennials;…

The Agenda: Islam -Time for a Religious Reformation?

Steve Wozniak: ‘US would look like Dubai if it didn’t spend all its money on military’

(Arabian Business.com) - "Everything is first-class," says Nerd-in-Chief Steve Wozniak of Dubai, as we sit down to chat on the sidelines of this month's Gartner Symposium…

Melting down the ‘iron rice bowl’

(The Telegraph) - Two books explore the China's economic growth and its effects on ordinary village life, finds Rana Mitter Dealing with China and In Manchuria…

Ayaan Hirsi Ali describes Islam as a religion of violence

(The San Francisco Chronicle) - Forty-seven strong, the biggest-ever gathering of the Monday Group — which assembles to break bread together while listening to a…

Gingrich: Obama Learning He Can’t Hide Behind Harry Reid

(Newsmax) - Now that Republicans control the Senate, President Barack Obama is figuring out he has to work with the GOP and can't hide behind…

He Was a GOP Congressman for 14 Years, Then Went to Work for Obama. Ray LaHood’s Take on Politics.

Lady Carnarvon’s tribute to WWII flying aces who died after crashing on Downton estate

In the touching climax to the latest series of Downton Abbey, the Crawley family and their servants unveiled a Great War memorial to honour those…

Ayaan Hirsi Ali Examines Islam in the 21st Century

(Santa Barbara Independent) - Ayaan Hirsi Ali is one of the most renowned, and most controversial, religious commentators of our day. Her straightforward critiques of radical…

Three ways China and the United States could go to war

(AEIdeas) - After years of being a focus of interest for specialists, the South China Sea is now getting major attention from the media.

Dentons appoints former US presidential candidate Newt Gingrich as an adviser

(The Lawyer) - Dentons has appointed former US presidential candidate Newt Gingrich as an adviser to the firm‘s public policy and regulation practice. Gingrich, who…

The Problem with Obama’s Foreign Policy is Becoming Clear

(Business Insider) - President Barack Obama's biggest foreign-policy failure wasn't any one particular episode. Rather, it was the fact that he "refused to choose a…