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As Annie Murphy Paul writes for Time, music improves performance, but only in certain situations. She says its most suited to when an experienced expert needs to "achieve the relaxed focus necessary to execute a job he's done many times before," like ...

According to The State of Global Jihad Online author Aaron Y. Zelin at the New America Foundation, Islamist terrorists and their sympathizers use a combination of web forums, conventional websites, and Twitter for social networking. Zelin also suggests that Jihadists use web forums for everyday conversation, exchanging tactics, and socializing, while Twitter is used more as a recruitment and propaganda tool. ...

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Four days after the Internet campaigner's body was found in his Brooklyn apartment, Columbia law school professor and Free Press campaigner Tim Wu wrote a blog post for the New Yorker magazine accusing the U.S. legal system of having failed the young ...

If the Electronic Frontier Foundation and New America Foundation have their way, Hurricane Sandy will mean the end of password-protected Wi-Fi networks. On Tuesday, a new advocacy effort called the Open Wireless Movement was launched to promote ...

The word “technology” combines the Greektekhne and logos, symbolizing that technology, like language, is as intrinsic to the human condition as speech. Language, though, does not stand alone; it is part of a larger cultural system. Hence the German word Technik, which denotes not only technologies themselves, but also the skills and processes surrounding them. A century ago, leading Western philosophers appreciated the promise and peril of mass industrialization technologies.

As Silicon Valley hones its political agenda, Marvin Ammori has become the go-to First Amendment guy--as evidenced in January, when he helped destroy PIPA and SOPA. His method: "You're only going to win if you have better ideas, better persuasion, and better ability to organize people."

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Stanford University's Evgeny Morozov greeted the news with the implication that it could prevent a “Twitter Revolution” in Saudi Arabia. Discussion by Arabic-language bloggers has speculated on possible conspiracy theories; however, most Arabic Twitter ...

That's the frustrating conclusion of a new report from the New America Foundation called The Price-Induced Energy Trap: Exploring the Impacts of Transportation Expenditures on the American Economy. According to the report, by the end of 2011, ...

... toying with the idea of jumping deep into the 21st century with a big shift toward government 2.0 Here, we look at how other cities and towns are using technology to improve services and engage citizens, courtesy of a New America Foundation report. Local governments around the country could take a hint. ...

Washington wanted the island to be a “showcase of noncommunist development” just off the coast of Communist China, as the New America Foundation's Barry Lynn explained in End of the Line. The United States supplied Taiwan with economic and military aid ...