Bloomberg By Daniel Golden Michigan State University President Lou Anna K. Simon contacted the Central Intelligence Agency in late 2009 with an urgent question. The school’s campus in Dubai needed a bailout and an unlikely savio… more »

Twitter and Facebook don't connect people – they isolate them from reality, say a rising number of academics   An American student checks in on his smart phone. Critics of social networking say it is having an isolating effect on users. Photograph: Naj… more »

CR Editor's Note: Just wait, next alcohol will  be the cause of global warming and taking horrible, mind addling drugs may reduce the harmful effects of the ozone level...the madness never ends it would seem. The Lancet, a British medical journal, l… more »

LiveScience.com By Stephanie Pappas It's a good news/bad news situation for believers in the 2012 Mayan apocalypse. The good news is that the Mayan "Long Count" calendar may not end on Dec. 21, 2012 (and, by extension, the world may not end along wit… more »

By Liberated Gurl“SARAH PALIN?!!!! WHAT’S GOING ON WITH YOU?!” I met “X” in 2004 when he was a freshman in one of my argumentation classes. He stood out from other students immediately, not just because of his “Goth-like” appearance, but because he s… more »