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Modern Renaissance man Nathan Mhyrvold gives insight into his unique adaptability.

*spoilers obviously* Films, books, comics and so on are important topics to look at critically. You use the evidence presented in the medium to see whether the action depicted stands […]

Credit-rating agencies were among the bogeymen of the global financial crisis, and for good reason. Moody’s, Standard and Poor’s, Fitch, and others failed to appraise the real risks of billions […]

Reading last week about the death of Florence Green, Women’s Royal Air Force member and last surviving veteran of the First World War, I thought of a sonorous passage by […]

The big news coming out of the CES show in Las Vegas this week was the lack of big news coming out of the CES show in Las Vegas this […]

My first introduction to newspaper reading was the Sunday comics. Stretched out on the floor beside my Dad, both of us propped up on our elbows, we read everything from […]

There is certainly value in any book that will make a young person shift his or her gaze from the iPhone screen long enough to read it.

Since March of this year, a series of extraordinary paper sculptures has appeared in various locations around Edinburgh, Scotland. Each location is a library or other institution devoted to the […]

Click here to read the Ukrainian language version of this article. Many scientists believe that a rock about 6 miles across plowed into Mexico 65 million years ago, killing the […]

Most have come to believe the dinosaurs were killed off when an asteroid struck the Earth, but some scientists remain sceptical. Will new evidence in the fossil record convince them?  

Your whole life, reduced to a single number. That’s the goal of an increasing number of companies that are attempting to analyze specific aspects of your life and quantify certain […]

“I define an expert as someone who can tell you exactly how something can’t be done,” says X Prize founder and Chairman Peter Diamandis. 

If astronomers spot a big one headed our way, our risk perception will switch to “It COULD happen to me, and SOON” and we’ll take the threat more seriously.

If traditional media companies fail to adapt their business models to the realities of today’s open source world, companies like Boxee will be happy to fill the void.

In his new book, 1493, Charles Mann gives us a rich, nuanced account of how the Columbian Exchange continues to reunite the continents and globalize the world. 

13-year-old Google is going through a patch of mid-life anxiety. With upstarts like Facebook nipping at its heels, the company is shaking things up in an effort to stay ahead of the game.   

Will homo sapiens define a geological period in the way dinosaurs—and their vanishing act—helped mark the Jurassic and the Cretaceous? Yes, say scientists, for better or worse. 

Design Thinking is one of the most fashionable concepts in the innovation world these days. But could it really save industries that are on the fast road to extinction?

There are many reasons for us to visit Mars. A key motivation is that after Earth, it appears the most likely abode for life in our solar system. And there are some political factors.

A picture, as they say, is worth a thousand words. This was the cover of the February 17 issue of The Economist: “The end of the cash era.” With electronic […]

Recently spotted this ad from Baruch College in the New York Post. The headline and picture make a compelling argument: EVOLVE your career (or you’re a dinosaur).

Incumbents very seldom invent the future. – Eric Schmidt, Google CEO, in Dinosaur at the Gate

Near-Earth Asteroids are a threat to our planet, but they also represent an opportunity to generate enormous wealth, and may drive the commercial space race. 

According to United Press International, Russian scientists say there’s the chance that a 900-foot asteroid could cause a global cataclysm in a little over twenty years.

Michael Raynor, who co-authored The Innovator’s Solution with Clayton Christensen in 2003, recently published a new book called The Strategy Paradox that touches on key issues surrounding innovation and corporate […]

I have a photograph back home in England taken in 1978. It is of a demonstration organised by local trade unions in the small town of Trowbridge in Wiltshire, South […]

I wrote earlier this week about the media and its treatment of Yellowstone caldera. Well, I tried to be calm about a post/video I saw earlier today on CNN’s American […]

The effects of fishing are certainly not as extreme as the celestial impact that ended the age of the dinosaurs, but in some parts of the tropics we are getting close.

One of the true joys of the internet is that you can do pretty much anything (even blog) from the comfort of your own bedroom (maybe even in your pajamas). […]

At Grist this week, David Roberts features a deeply valuable interview with Sandra de Castro Buffington, head of the Hollywood, Health, and Society project at USC.   She discusses the project’s […]