How the most powerful telescope ever built will owe its successes and discoveries to scientists who’ll never get the glory. “The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without […]
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When it comes to making predictions, thinkers who are hedgehogs barely beat “dart-throwing chimps.” Despite that, hedgehogs hog the spotlight.
If we want to fail fast and fail hard, we should be sure to be mindful about disrupting gurus of innovation.
Once upon a time, a car was an industrial machine you climbed in and drove around. Today, it’s also a tracking and nudging machine that second-guesses you for your own […]
“Moralities and religions are the principal means by which one can make whatever one wishes out of man, provided one possesses a superfluity of creative forces and can assert one’s […]
Of all the galaxies in our local supercluster, one outweighs them all. “I recognize my limits, but when I look around I realise I am not living, exactly, in a world […]
“Master of Modernism and Creator of His Own Song Style” read the posters for Jazz trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong when he appeared in Memphis, Tennessee in late 1931 at […]
Animals behind cages, starving and dying, is an awful sight. It’s an image that underlines the callousness with which humans treat other creatures and indeed themselves. The philosopher, Immanuel Kant, […]
With the multitude of social media sites, it’s hard for businesses to determine where they should be allocating their time and resources. And since many are reporting that they’re not […]
A horrendous disease called Sleeping Sickness was close to being eradicated but war in Sudan gave it a new lease on life.
Let me remind you of why I think all the Singularity talk about making what used to be called personal immortality possible by turning each of us into conscious machines is ridiculous. […]
We’re somehow hard-wired for stories that have a beginning, a middle and end, stories that really teach us about the past.
David Gelernter: We’re seeing wisdom and moral seriousness come under attack and often from the same people who want to do the genetic engineering.
There really is no difference between donors and doers.
Unfortunately, family vacations can often be an intense time of stress when the ostensible purpose is to relax and recharge.
More users of space mean more and better infrastructure to continue to improve the ability of small organizations, students and ordinary people to access the stars. Which means we’d better get used to future rocket launches setting new satellite deployment records and making the skies glitter with ever more little points of light.
Pew released an interesting survey today on millennial women’s and men’s perceptions of the workplace. It makes me wonder about the role of surveys in shaping (rather than simply recording) […]
We want to see ourselves in a positive light so we see our own ideas as more important than the ideas of others.
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein: Religious belief is now something that scientists are looking at and trying to explain and I don’t think it’s an accident that the most prominent atheist writers come from the domain of evolutionary psychology.
Is it my cranky imagination or does Valentine’s Day become more of a big deal every year? All of the second-tier holidays seem to have gotten elevated in the last […]
There’s something deeply and profoundly philosophical about the gradually decline of the Europeans: It’s going on for over a century now. MOST observers will have heard about the latest US […]
“Ladies, take special notice. Afghanistan is a heavy duty male chauvinist trip, so try to remember what your dear old Grandmother said about acting like a lady”
97 percent of Fortune 500 companies have been hacked (and 3 percent likely have been too and just don’t know it). So how do we close the “Cybersecurity Knowledge Gap”?
When the nurse footprinted my son at birth, she declared, “his foot almost doesn’t fit in the box” on her special Baby Footprint Form (nurses and doctors like things to fit […]
If the Universe began with equal amount of matter and antimatter, why does matter dominate today’s cosmos? “You may not feel outstandingly robust, but if you are an average-sized adult you […]
The screenwriter Danny Strong explains how listening to critical feedback is essential to the creative process.
The genomes of tumors can be analyzed, providing “a much better way of deciding what types of treatments to pursue.”
Malcolm Gladwell: I don’t know why we run from explanations of success that include a healthy dose of serendipity.
“I am big,” Gloria Swanson’s fading film star Norma Desmond says in Sunset Boulevard. “It’s the pictures that got small.” Have we lost the “big” artist, the artist who tackled […]
You need to view business growth as a journey and not a destination, and that mindset if very helpful.