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Shell has permission to drill off the coast of Alaska, but other oil companies are warning of potentially harmful long-term consequences.
With the addition of Julia, a character with autism, Sesame Street (unlike The Muppets) keeps up with the times without losing its soul.
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If all the worlds formed together, they have the ingredients for life, too. Maybe it isn’t just Earth who got lucky. “If I had to describe myself to an alien […]
Let’s first cut carbon emissions that don’t make positive returns on human happiness.
If there is a quantum theory of gravity, is String Theory the only game in town? “I just think too many nice things have happened in string theory for it to […]
NYU’s Dr. Nicole Foubister chats with us about the two-faced nature of bipolar disorder.
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There are fair quarrels with the details of the Obama Administration plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. But beyond the details, the fact that such a major step is being taken in the first place is a hopeful sign that our leaders can lead with reason and wisdom, and not just follow public opinion and emotion, as we try to find a more sustainable path to the future.
The trouble with productivity as a value is that it treats a morally ambiguous act as a moral good. What, specifically, do we want to be producing more of?
A new law just passed in France has got us thinking about alternatives.
How the “hierarchy problem,” or why gravity is so much weaker than everything else, might be the key to the entire Universe. “I just think too many nice things have […]
Exploring and mapping the Universe? A great plan. But the math of spending billions on asteroid deflection doesn’t add up. “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the […]
If you knew the flu was going around your office, wouldn’t it be nice to work at home for the day?
Is inertia of prior ideas the only thing keeping us from the next major revolution in science? This post was written by Brian Koberlein. Brian is an astrophysicist and Senior Lecturer […]
The hurdles in life presented by traumatic experiences, if treated properly, represent opportunities for momentous personal growth.
It can diminish the quality of your work in the long-term.
There is no sense whatsoever that we are on the same page here, working toward some roughly agreed upon vision of a better future.
The threat is real and many scientists and engineers are standing behind them.
What distinguishes real OCD from how it’s depicted in pop culture — a characteristic of someone’s perfectionist tendencies — is that sufferers respond to stimuli in the same way everyone else does.
A big part of our current mess has to do with how little about religion we actually know.
If you’re one of the 85,000 readers who took the three-question quiz I posted last week, chances are you answered some items incorrectly. Like some of my smart, accomplished friends and family […]
Let the French flag fly on Facebook. It flies for us all. It flies for life.
When Microsoft’s Windows 10 is released next week in seven countries, each market will receive a specialized version of Cortana, the system’s digital personal assistant (and Microsoft’s answer to Siri). Microsoft has put yeoman’s work into making sure each country’s iteration of Cortana is sensitive to local cultural nuances.
Recent trends in the tech sector suggest the liberal arts degree is making a major comeback.
Why Banksy’s dystopian vision of the future might be the kind of shock we need to realize the problems humanity faces.
There are three kinds of BS, explains Stewart, and all three made appearances last night.
Just 10 years ago, the suicide-prevention community consisted mainly of families who had been affected by the suicide of a loved one. Today, it numbers in the hundreds of thousands.