Drake Bennett
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Torture Isn't Really About Information; It's About Revenge
Defenders of “enhanced interrogation techniques”—what critics of those techniques call simply torture—have always argued that using them produces vital intelligence, and that’s why the U.S. government did so in the years after 9/11. Former Vice President Dick Cheney is one of the Bush administration → Read More
Building a Better Police Department
From Ferguson to New York: What would the ideal American police force look like if it were built from scratch? → Read More
The Evolution of the Jeep
Built for wartime, the Jeep became a surprise urban hit in the 1980s → Read More
The Black-Market Value of 100 Brains: Less Than One Good Kidney
Initial speculation about the motives of a would-be brain thief eventually turned to the black market, which seems not to value human brains so much → Read More
The Art of Social Media: Guy Kawasaki Gives Advice on How to Sell Yourself
Apple's former chief evangelist promotes himself in a self-promotion book → Read More
The Startups of Nazareth
What it's like to be an Arab entrepreneur in a divided Israel → Read More
Takata Air Bags Share an Explosive Chemical With the Texas Fertilizer Blast
Ammonium nitrate is one of the world's workhorse chemicals → Read More
How GMO Crops Can Be Good for the Environment
A new meta-analysis comes down strongly on the pro-GMO side → Read More
Math Proves It: Hipsters All Look the Same
A mathematician assumed hipsters make anticonformist choices ... which end up being strikingly similar → Read More
The World's New Biggest Ship? Maybe. Niftiest Ship? For Sure
The <em>Pieter Schelte</em> is a cross between a ship and a massive robot → Read More
Whole Foods' New Produce Ratings Probably Won't Change a Thing
Other types of labels have had little effect on consumer behavior → Read More
Tax Expert Says Everyone's Too Obsessed With Taxes
The issue is not how government gets its money; it's how it spends it → Read More
Creativity (and Satisfaction) Take a Hit When You Watch the Clock
New research finds that "event-timers" who aren't always watching the clock are more creative and enjoy their work more. → Read More
Ignoring Clocks Will Improve Your Creativity (and Your Yoga Skills)
New research highlights the benefits of thinking in "event-time," rather than according to "clock-time" → Read More
Scientists Discover Coffee Addiction Genes
Genes may also explain purported health effects of coffee → Read More
Who Should Be Unmasked on the Internet?
Facebook has always wanted to be the online chronicle of its members’ lives, a digital space where friendships are maintained and strengthened, births and birthday parties announced and chronicled, articles and consumer brands recommended, and the demographic profiles of its members steadily refined. Because of that, the information that Facebook users provide in their profiles has to be their… → Read More
What Can the McLaren Racing Team Teach the Rest of Us?
How McLaren uses its Formula One expertise to help companies → Read More
The Lonely Can't Tell Other People From Dolls
Loneliness primes us to lower the bar on who, or what, we'll befriend, a new study indicates → Read More
Shhh! The Bag of Chips Might Be Listening
Be careful, the plants have ears. Or, more accurately, they are ears. In a boon to eavesdroppers, researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology have figured out a way to reproduce speech by ana... → Read More
Al Qaeda's New Business Plan
After years of being squeezed by Western governments, Islamic militants are seeing a boost in finances → Read More