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The struggle between conscience and refusal, or individual rights vs. that of the community good, goes far back, and is not limited to reproductive choices

The struggle between conscience and refusal, or individual rights vs. that of the community good, goes far back, and is not limited to reproductive choices

What a difference a week makes. On Tuesday, January 31, Susan G. Komen For The Cure announced that it would not renew its grants to Planned Parenthood for breast cancer exams , claiming that it doesn't permit funding to organizations under investigation by Congress.

In this extended version of the talk from our new issue , we speak with Tom Conrad, the CTO and Executive VP of Product at Pandora. Why does it take so much input from so many sources for the company to build perfect playlists

"A couple of years I was involved with something called the Twitter Photo Challenge. Every week there'd be a new topic, and the participants had to produce a photo for that topic during the following seven days," said photographer Jo Christian Oterhals.

"A couple of years I was involved with something called the Twitter Photo Challenge. Every week there'd be a new topic, and the participants had to produce a photo for that topic during the following seven days," said photographer Jo Christian Oterhals.

Is it possible to brand an entire country for less than $200,000? Or, for less than $2,000, can you brand a person so successfully that they create headlines worldwide? Here are three cases of successful, yet cheap marketing stunts

Find out from the source; Inc.com's Eric Markowitz interviews Christian Oestlien, Googles chief of social advertising products. Google recently opened its Google+ social network to businesses. How should you approach this new platform

After years of fumbling while reading the written word, Christian Boer, a graphic designer from the Netherlands, has developed a way to help tackle his dyslexia . The 30-year-old created a font called Dyslexie that has proved to decrease the number of errors made by dyslexics while reading. The font works by tweaking the appearance of certain letters of the alphabet that dyslexics commonly misconstrue, such as "d" and "b," to make them more recognizable.

This year has been the worst in recent history for natural disasters in the U.S., with record-level floods, fires, and hurricanes.

Deceptive Beauties: The World of Wild Orchids by Christian Ziegler. University of Chicago Press, 2011 [More]

Dont let their age fool you! These longstanding companies are still growing fast. Check out their humble beginnings and rich histories.

Here comes the next generation of innovators revolutionizing batteries. Per-Ivar Sellergren is helping Volvo put energy storage--both batteries and high-power supercapacitors--in the body panels of cars. Photo by Christian Aslund Per-Ivar Sellergren Senior Research and Development Engineer Volvo Car Corp., Goeteborg, Sweden Sellergren, 60, is helping Volvo put energy storage--both batteries and high-power supercapacitors--in the body panels of cars

Find out what happens when a journalist crowdsources a piece about a crowdsource company to the people who work there. From DARPA soliciting the masses to design aspects of next generation combat vehicles , to

The Rough Guide to Psychology by Christian Jarrett.