The Lede Blog: Video Shows Flaming Wreckage After Helicopter Crash in London

Footage of the flaming wreckage of a helicopter crash in London on Wednesday posted on YouTube by Nic Walker.Video and photographs posted online by witnesses showed smoke and fire on a street in central London after a helicopter crash on Wednesday. The police said the aircraft hit a crane atop a residential tower, exploding into flames and hurtling to the ground during the morning rush, my colleagues...

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Pushing France Onto the Digital Stage

PARIS — When the most prominent new face in France’s effort to oversee the new economy speaks, her pronouncements may be followed almost as closely in Silicon Valley and Seoul as in Paris. Fleur Pellerin, a deputy finance minister, is the point woman in President François Hollande’s campaign to stimulate innovation. But in trying to put a French imprint on the digital economy, she has...

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Rights Group Reports on Abuses of Surveillance and Censorship Technology

A Canadian human rights monitoring group has documented the use of American-made Internet surveillance and censorship technology by more than a dozen governments, some with harsh human rights policies like Syria, China and Saudi Arabia. Jakub Dalek of the Munk School of Global Affairs. Thor Swift for The New York TimesMorgan Marquis-Boire led the research...

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Well: Boosting Your Flu Shot Response

Phys EdGretchen Reynolds on the science of fitness.As this year’s influenza season continues to take its toll, those procrastinators now hurrying to get a flu shot might wish to know that exercise may amplify the flu vaccine’s effect. And for maximal potency, the exercise should be undertaken at the right time and involve the right dosage of sweat, according to several recent reports.Flu shots are...

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Well: Boosting Your Flu Shot Response

Phys EdGretchen Reynolds on the science of fitness.As this year’s influenza season continues to take its toll, those procrastinators now hurrying to get a flu shot might wish to know that exercise may amplify the flu vaccine’s effect. And for maximal potency, the exercise should be undertaken at the right time and involve the right dosage of sweat, according to several recent reports.Flu shots are...

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India Ink: In New Delhi, Women Marry Up and Men Are Left Behind

There’s an unexpected problem in New Delhi’s high-end marriage market, according to Gopal Suri, who has been a marriage broker for two decades.There are too few “quality” men, he said in a recent interview, as a growing pool of young women with unprecedented levels of education are seeking and making matches with educated men from higher socioeconomic groups.The repercussions from India’s skewed sex...

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TIMESCAST: Suicide Prompts Investigation at M.I.T.

January 14, 2013By Fritzie Andrade, Zena Barakat, Axel Gerdau, David Frank and Pedro Rafael RosadoTimesCast Media+Tech: M.I.T. examines its involvement in the suicide of Aaron Swartz. The post-Golden Globe marketing push by movie studios. Networks revisit conversations about violen...

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California to Give Web Courses a Big Trial

A plan to offer an array of online college classes at a California state university could, if the students are successful, open the door to teaching hundreds of thousands of California students at a lower cost via the Internet. Udacity, a Silicon Valley start-up that creates online college classes, will announce a deal on Tuesday with San Jose State University for a series of remedial...

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Well: Turning to the Web for a Medical Diagnosis

Thirty-five percent of American adults said they have used the Internet to diagnose a medical condition for themselves or someone else, according to a new Pew Research Center study. Women are more likely than men to turn to the Internet for diagnoses. Other groups more likely to do so are younger people, white adults, people with college degrees and those who live in households with income above $75,000.The...

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Well: Turning to the Web for a Medical Diagnosis

Thirty-five percent of American adults said they have used the Internet to diagnose a medical condition for themselves or someone else, according to a new Pew Research Center study. Women are more likely than men to turn to the Internet for diagnoses. Other groups more likely to do so are younger people, white adults, people with college degrees and those who live in households with income above $75,000.The...

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