Montanans are riled up over the U.S. Supreme Court’s “corporate personhood” ruling. A meeting Friday will look at curbing future abuses.

Colorado State University animal science expert Temple Grandin discusses alternative cognitive processes, public education and its applications to science, technology and agriculture.

Grandin was featured at the TED2010 conference in Long Beach, Calif., a global confab designed to provoke conversation about innovative ideas.

Diagnosed with autism as a child, she talks about how her mind works — sharing her ability to “think in pictures,” which helps her solve problems that neurotypical brains might miss. She makes the case that the world needs people on the autism spectrum: visual thinkers, pattern thinkers, verbal thinkers, and all kinds of smart geeky kids.

Nursing homes in Montana and Wyoming are going newfangled by borrowing an old ’60s mantra on shared housing.

Here’s a nice companion piece to our Daily Digit feature on Internet usage in the Rocky Mountain West.

The global numbers on email, video viewing and social media content are staggering.

What could this mean for civic engagement and journalism? How can community organizers cut through the Can this poodle wearing a tinfoil hat get more fans than Glenn Beck? Facebook page diversions and Viagra spam?

Drive through most any city in America and the offers will leap out at you: “Repair Your Credit!” “Modify Your Loan!” “Sell Your House Quick!”

The creators of these signs — Hard Times Profiteers, as we at the Huffington Post Investigative Fund have dubbed them — are moving to capitalize on the financial troubles of others. They are posting advertisements on walls, street lamps and bus shelters. The ads range from handwritten cardboard cutouts to printed plastic signs.

A Santa Fe public hearing today aims to reconcile competing interests to cap greenhouse gas and boost a recession-battered economy.