Suicide in the military: it's bad, even without deployment; taking on the diabetes epidemic at church; mapping supply chains via social media and crowd sourcing; and, endless ways to map NYC.

College in prison: the research behind Cuomo's plan; the Gamification of healthcare and daily life; the science of gerrymandering and districting; and, preserving the iconic 1964 World's Fair Pavilion in Queens.

Snow days: the impact of schools closures on grades; a future when cars talk to each other; a look at using iPads and tablets in preschool; and, Wikipedia goes to medical school.

A Sochi Olympics primer; getting to "Vision Zero" traffic fatalities in NYC; passing over the long-term unemployed; and, is does wealth distribution follow the laws of physics?

“Big Data” hiring: how digital breadcrumbs define who gets hired; more prescription drugs in our water than predicted; a tech startup tackling literacy; and, Brian's brother on the rise and fall of the fictional, but prolific, novelist Bleu Mobley.

The Trans-Pacific Partnership "Free-Trade" Agreement; diagnosing prescription drug abuse via Twitter; the growing wealth concentration in New York; and, new insights into autism.

MLK DAY and Living Wages for Airport Employees; "La Gran Migracion" of Puerto Ricans in the U.S.; Political skepticism Begets Activism; And, Updating Modern Evolutionary Theory.

How will Mayor Bill deBlasio narrow the gap between the city's rich and poor?; Modular apartments go up above the Barclays Center at Atlantic Yards; How baby girls can turn their parents toward the G.O.P.; And, 10 unorthodox ideas for fighting crime.

New power politics of animal rights putting an age-old business out to pasture; The legal battle over unpaid internships; How the holiday office party can reinforce, rather than heal, the racial divide; And, hi-tech gift ideas for Christmas.

Bill deBlasio’s lesser known weapon against inequality: after-school programs; Poverty's link to poor decision-making; Teen behavior and the future of the shopping mall; And, book publishers adapt to a new kind of fiction.