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Theatre Development Fund's Autism Theater Initiative launched in October 2011

Be wary of unanimous decisions and bold when you face them. Neuroscience and sociology, and a recent meeting I attended, underscore this point. I sat in a board meeting recently as we debated a new strategic initiative.

This past week, I was jolted out of my chair by news that a Pfizer-led group plans to buy access to patient data in hospitals . My initial reaction was anger, on a variety of levels: as a researcher, as one who is increasingly wary of the reach of huge corporations, and as an individual

The snack giant is investing in a program to help Ethiopian farmers develop a chickpea crop. But it's not altruism: Pepsi wants access to a lot of chickpeas, because that's what they want to sell us.

It can take years for a new engineering feat to go from concept to commercialization. The rechargeable batteries in your phone took 20 years to develop. So the federal government is launching a project to speed up invention and hopefully save U.S

A new campaign to install toilets in the developing world rests not on aid, but on using marketing to convince villagers that bad sanitation is a problem they need to work together to fix.

The PGA Tour's Tim Finchem joins Morning Joe to discuss the PGA Tour and its partnership with the Clinton Global Initiative, rising golf champ Rory McIlroy, and Tiger Woods. (Morning Joe)

By Lucas Laursen of Nature magazine Nuclear accidents can have devastating consequences for the people and animals living in the vicinity of the damaged power plants, but they also give researchers a unique opportunity to study the effects of radiation on populations that would be impossible to recreate in the lab. Tim Mousseau, who directs the Chernobyl Research Initiative at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, together with an international team, is studying the long-term ecological and health consequences of the 1986 accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Ukraine. [More]

Diners at Francesco's Restaurant in San Francisco, The Spotted Pig in New York City, and at thousands of other restaurants participating in this week's UNICEF TAP Project are in for a surprise: They will be asked to donate $1 for the privilege of drinking tap water with their meals.