Winemaking is the latest industry to witness global production, with no end in sight.
Managers are always encouraging workers to "think outside the box," but studies suggest that most people are not very good at unstructured, abstract brainstorming.
Cities that launch expensive curbside recycling programs, as opposed to having residents bring their recyclables to a regional center, get little extra for their money.
The American public bought into a sensationalized media portrait of addicted Vietnam soldiers. Alcohol was more of a problem, but the stereotype persists.
Westerners think that separation of church and state is a natural condition, but it isn't. Thomas Hobbes provided an exhausted Europe with a secular solution, but Muslims experienced nothing similar among their thinkers.
The shrinking glacier on Tanzania's Mount Kilimanjaro are, for many, including Al Gore, a prime example of global warming. But scientific study shows the truth is much more complex.
How could 18-year-old Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley have concocted a horror tale for the ages? Many now think she had a very good editor: her husband.
A critic has uncovered a warm, fuzzy strain infecting modern literature. The pox seems centered in Brooklyn.
The Rose, Orange, and Tulip revolutions in three former Soviet Republics, says a political scientist, have amounted to little more than a limited rotation of the ruling elites.
Think you can beat a computer at checkers? Better think again.