When Bode Miller was the fastest skier in the world, he seemed to be racing with reckless abandon. His all-or-nothing approach earned him Olympic and World Cup medals, as well as plenty of DNFs (Did Not Finish). And yet, there was method to this madness. The self-taught Miller employed a creative ...

After Attorney General Eric Holder wrote a letter to Congressional leaders today admitting for the first time that the U.S. has killed four Americans with drone strikes.  In response, Amnesty International's Zeke Johnson told The New York Times : "The Obama administration continues to claim ...

We are moving from a multi-decade focus on killing ALL bacteria via soaps, detergents, antibiotics and hand sanitizer, to a new understanding of the complex bacterial system in our bodies and in the world around us. We now understand that humans are 90% microbial but only 10% human. The average ...

What's the Latest Development? When it comes to accurately observing levels of artificial night sky brightness, also known as skyglow, human eyes are just as good as satellites, according to a new study published in the open access online journal Scientific Reports. Researchers looked at data ...

So what young conservative blogger/essayist would you recommend to challenge those who believe they’re smarter than every conservative in the world?  Well, SAM GOLDMAN. Sam’s not the only one by far, but he’s my choice for today. After all, who else is outing “the spiritual crisis of the ...

At Khan Academy, we talk about turning it into a global, one-world classroom.  And in our mind what that is, is you have our videos that cover pretty much anything that someone wants to learn about.  You have the exercises, you get feedback, and you get analytics and reports and data on how you’re ...

When severe weather conditions developed over Oklahoma on May 20, NOAA's GOES-13 satellite was switched to capture an image every 5 minutes as opposed to the normal interval of 30 minutes. The result is this amazing NOAAVisualizations high speed animation. "The added frequency greatly assists ...

How does modern technology intersect with ancient spirituality? This is the question that is posed in the work of Grimanesa Amorós, a Peruvian interdisciplinary artist, whose light sculpture installations will be featured tomorrow at BAZAAR ART NIGHT, which is a celebration of the first edition of ...

To buy Stephen King’s latest novel, Joyland, you’ll have to go to an actual bookstore in an actual place. He’s not e-publishing it. I got my first Kindle 18 months ago, as a gift. Since then I’ve read 82 e-books on it, depending on how expansively you define “read” and “book.” I’ll get the ...

If you're a leader in a non-arts field you may believe that the arts are irrelevant to your business. The reality is that maybe you're right.  Maybe in your core business it doesn't matter. But your customers care.  You like your customers too, so what happens is that the arts are a way to ...

Can experimental findings look too good to be true? Last week I wrote a blog post about some experiments showing a counterintuitive finding regarding how the need to urinate affects decision making. It’s since been brought to my attention that these experiments (along with dozens of others) have ...

Those of you who have grown up on the Internet, when we look at you we see skills, competencies that we admire.  We may want to learn them, but while you can try to teach them to us we will never be as competent as you are by the very nature of you're having grown up in this world, growing up with ...