Dec 15th, 2008 · While President-elect Barack Obama staffs the top rungs of his administration, his team is paying close attention to the Obama campaign's grass roots. Over the weekend, supporters held "Change Is Coming" house parties across the country. Ten thousand house parties were organized on Obama's social networking web site.
Dec 15th, 2008 · People who promote energy efficiency are starting to realize that it may take more than high prices to get consumers to change their habits. As a result, they are turning to "social marketers" to get people to consume energy more conservatively.
Dec 13th, 2008 · It takes more than activism or scholarly texts to get some young people really interested in debate about religion or social issues. For one college course, it takes some foul-mouthed fourth-graders who are leading authorities on everything politically incorrect.
Dec 11th, 2008 · Indie director Kelly Reichardt makes films about youngish, poorish people with wanderlust. But the stories she tells, and the characters she creates, are so low-key as to be tales of "wanderlike."
Dec 7th, 2008 · Hundreds of millions in the subcontinent and throughout Asia live on less than a $1.25 a day. A U.N. official warns that if economic problems are ignored, the risk of widespread social unrest will increase.
Dec 5th, 2008 · Husband and wife team Dorothy Cheney and Robert Seyfarth spent a year in Botswana studying the behavior, vocalizations and social organization of baboons for their book Baboon Metaphysics.
Dec 5th, 2008 · Happiness is contagious, according to a new study published in the British Medical Journal. James Fowler, political scientist at University of California, San Diego, explains how happiness spreads through social networks and how to make the holidays a little brighter.
Dec 5th, 2008 · The Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance and Strangeness of Insect Societies peers into the world of ants and other social insects. Eminent biologist Edward O. Wilson and co-author Bert Hölldobler, a biologist at Arizona State University, discuss the book.