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Want to know how you can help stop ISIL? Stop buying their brand.

After years of logging your likes and shares, Facebook is about to use them to create better targeted ads.

“We shouldn’t be in the dark ages about knowing the health situation around us,” says Kinsa founder Inder Singh. We mostly are in the dark ages, however, because medicine makers haven’t focused on mapping the spread of disease, just stopping its biological causes.

And the story you heard about their origin being solved? It’s 100% wrong. “From a little spark may burst a flame.” –Dante Alighieri Although it was recently reported that a mysterious […]

Nathan Eagle is the CEO of Jana, and its product is the mCent app. It addresses two issues facing emerging markets: giving users the ability to access the internet for free and helping connect major corporations with its next billion potential customers.

Without context, this is an alien world. How liberating!

When Francis Bellamy penned our pledge in 1892, his focus was really on the ‘liberty and justice for all’ part.

We’re teaching robots to learn in all kinds of new ways.

In an unprecedented use of Freedom of Information laws, an anti-GMO group wants to read the emails of forty university professors with professional associations to biotechnology firms.

Every time that you make a prediction you get a little bomb of dopamine in the reward pathways of your brain. That dopamine helps you pay closer attention, to process information more effectively, and to be more engaged with what’s going.

Ever want to get rid of the link to that pic of you doing a keg stand? Google can help. And it’s pretty creepy.

Don’t even think about getting anything other than this one! “No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars.” –Quintus Ennius If you are (or you […]

What secrets did Shakespeare take to his grave 400 years ago?  Are the plays the thing to unlock the mysteries of literature’s king?

A new law just passed in France has got us thinking about alternatives.

We have every reason to believe gravity is an inherently quantum theory. Here’s how we’ll prove it once and for all! The following article was written by Dr. Sabine Hossenfelder. Sabine […]

New research suggests that converting all of our energy to renewable energy might actually be possible by 2050.

Beijing just had a red alert for air quality for the first time. But what else is it up to?

Facebook has released information on the first full-scale drones designed to deliver Internet services to underserved populations across the globe that lack developed infrastructure.

Did you know Alfred Hitchcock was a formally trained engineer? Guru Madhavan could see it in his movies.

And, at a fundamental level, it can never be one. “Even when Darwin’s teaching first made its appearance, it became clear at once that its scientific, materialist core, its teaching concerning […]

If you build it, they will come.

Long live the bicycle!

Experimentation-out-of-love is often inefficient and hard to measure. It isn’t always “solution-oriented.” But it’s as necessary and natural to us as breathing, and all too easily swept under the rug. 

The Internet is contributing to the demise of 95 percent of the world’s languages. Paradoxically, Google may have the solution.

Both are beautiful gifts, but only one is a beautiful learning experience. “The time will come when diligent research over long periods will bring to light things which now lie […]

There is a new SAT exam in town, and it’s a major revision. This five-question quiz will test the limits of your vocabulary.

Personal attacks on a speaker, especially about their funding, are a sign that the attacker can’t dispute the facts the speaker is presenting. Beware the attacker too.

Information Theory explicitly ignores meaning. Its focus on messages makes it uninformative about their effects. And limits the usefulness of its way of quantifying information. 

Anonymous targets Donald Trump for his proposed ban on allowing Muslims to enter the United States.

Researchers transfer quantum data over 100 km of optical fiber.