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The death of Osama bin Laden elicited many different types of responses and feelings--triumph, sorrow and anger among them. Each of us, as individuals, is capable of having conflicting feelings about the death of the al Qaeda leader, depending on how we happen to see ourselves at any given moment--as parents, spouses, workers, Americans, and so forth. The variety of our responses reveals the subtle and powerful forces surrounding social identity: how we relate to different groups and roles, which is changeable and influenced by circumstances

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You may have thought about blogging but then asked yourself, "What would I write about?" "Who would read it?" Or, "Is this the best use of my time?" If you're a business owner who already wears a hundred hats, the latter may be what keeps you from starting.

The lessons of Perth, Australia, and how they can help us avoid a dismal new water forecast from the U.S. Department of the Interior.

The dust-up over Apple and Google's location tracking leaves out an important group of people: those who want to be tracked.

Fact: The United States uses more water in a day than it uses oil in a year. In four days, the United States uses more water than the world uses oil in a year.

California mother Emily Fennel spoke to the press about the hand transplant she received on March 4 at Ronald Reagon UCLA Medical Center.

In this installment of "The Big Thirst," the author and Fast Company writer explains why one oft-used statistic about the scarcity of water is misleading. Fact: We hear all the time that "only" 2% of the water on Earth is fresh and available for human use--only 1% if you exclude glaciers and polar ice caps.

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In this installment, "The Big Thirst" author and Fast Company writer explains how every drop of water you'll ever know, from the spigot to the toilet, is about 4.3 billion years old. Facts: Two things about water are indisputable

A social networking app just for videos--designed especially for tablets and mobile--gives you the feeling of having the world of web video in the palm of your hand.

In this installment, "The Big Thirst" author and Fast Company writer explores how water, which technically can't be made radioactive, could be the least threatening byproduct of the hobbled Fukushima plant. FACT: Nothing is thirstier than nuclear power plants. They use water deep inside the reactor core, and they use rivers of water for cooling

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While much of the world has been bickering over whether climate change is real or not, climate scientists have been going about their research as usual. But what they have been discovering is revolutionary. Not only is human-driven climate change real; it's even more serious than we thought.Until now, most views of future temperature trends have been limited to this century, as if 2100 AD marked the outer edge of a world beyond which we dare not probe.

The founder and CEO of the National Cash Register Co. was known to be a stern control freak.