Spontaneous talk on surprise topics. Physicist Lawrence Krauss on why neutrinos are his favorite particles, light as the protagonist of modern physics, and more.
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Astrophysicist and science educator Neil deGrasse Tyson reveals if he’d run for President and what he would do if elected.
As more and more Baby Boomers prepare to leave the workforce, many companies are scrambling to find suitable replacements for their most experienced workers. Being able to hold on to […]
Did you go to one of the 600+ science marches across the globe? Here’s why the cause matters. “We’ve arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on […]
Philosopher Daniel Dennett believes AI should never become conscious — and no, it’s not because of the robopocalypse.
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Getting promoted to manager is a huge change for many employees—regardless of the industry they work in. All of a sudden, promoted managers have new roles and responsibilities to fill; […]
What if we told you that, right now, your phone was making a map of your interior surroundings — whether you’re at work or at home — and sending that data to places unknown?
Long thought to be a fallacy, new analysis shows the ‘hot hand’ is real, and Klay Thompson has it. “Success isn’t a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on […]
Pocket-sized therapies, like counseling apps, are praised as a timely solution to the budgetary pressures and long waiting lists of overstretched mental health services. But do they work?
Facebook knows about your past, present, and likely future. But how do they know this information? Data Selfie is a creepy new tool that will give you an answer. The free plugin provides a gateway into the data mining and predictive analytics that is used by Facebook to create your online identity.
If Indiana Jones and Google Earth had a love child, it would be GlobalXplorer, a “space archaeology” software by TED Prize winner Sarah Parcak.
A new game called Factitious aims to help people determine real from fake news online. Will this work? Exploring ways to be more media literate.
Imagine getting imperceptibly high, then playing Chinese strategy game ‘Go’. This is the experiment the Beckley Foundation will run to test the value of LSD microdosing.
One in five employees are distracted at work by social media, a Pew Research Center poll finds.
It may be the only way to save the USA — and the world — from alternative facts. “If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.” –Ernest Rutherford There […]
The new Carbon Majors Report 2017 puts all the greenhouse-gas puzzle pieces together in one eye-popping report.
AI is short for more than just ‘Artificial Intelligence’. At this crucial stage in its design, we have to decide whether we want it to merely serve us, or to challenge and augment our many selves.
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Your bones would “explode.”
If you thought all we could see is all that’s out there, prepare to rethink everything you knew. “It’s hard to build models of inflation that don’t lead to a multiverse. […]
Get ready for a decade of scientific revelations. Thanks to gravity waves, we have a completely new way to explore the universe.
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Even if you have a problem with the messenger, you still need to heed the message. “Whether humans are responsible for the bulk of climate change is going to be left […]
Canadian scientists discover how being bilingual creates advantages for the brain.
You know what many of the best employees have in common, regardless of the industry they work in? They’re constantly learning new things and applying those lessons to their work.
Frank Ostaseski is a Buddhist teacher and leading thinker in end-of-life care. This is what he’s learnt about appreciating life while you have it, and being truly present.
Researchers learn how to selectively erase memories in snails, a first step.
There is a wide definition of fake news, and a narrow one. These two types of fake news have different origins.
Descartes’ solitary, inward-facing mindset misconstrues the social nature of our thinking. Social Cartesianism better captures the soul of what matters in distinguishing humans from animals or machines.
For our future’s sake, let’s demand government funding for ‘little science’, says Hertz fellow Avideh Zakhor.
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Very sure. Here’s how we know. You’ve no doubt heard that the Universe itself has been around for 13.8 billion years since the Big Bang, and that scientists are extremely confident […]
The only way the furies are stopped is by “giving them a place of honor.”