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The most terrifying thing I’ve ever seen was not produced by Wes Craven or found in a theme park, it’s what I see some people do to themselves to lose weight. Take a look at these SEVEN scary diets . . . but reader beware if you’re easily grossed-out!

As the world has gone from connected to interconnected to interdependent, I believe we’ve entered a new era.

“Rapid urbanization is the fastest, most intense social phenomenon that ever happened to humankind, perhaps to biology on Earth. I think we can now start to understand in new and […]

So you might think I’m excessively anti-technological.  That’s not true at all.  I do think that liberal education should be a counterweight to all our technological obsessions.  That means its […]

How do I want to put some measurements for myself to see if I can channel my periods of creativity more effectively?

While personalized health systems offer some promise, there is reason to worry about their larger social effects.

When the citadels of knowledge for knowledge’s sake collapse, the marketers rush in to fill the void. We’re in greater need now  than ever of epistemology – a careful, systematic examination of what we know and how we know it.

Imagining a bumblebee with a bull’s head is a seemingly effortless task, but actually requires the brain to construct an entirely new and unreal image.

The microbes and enzymes in pandas’ digestive systems have a unique ability to break down plant waste. Collecting it from the animals’ feces could lead to faster and cheaper biofuel production.

The use of digital tools might be narrowing people but I think it also has something to do with an overly global and overly sort of flattened form of sharing on the internet where people don’t have a chance to build up local bubbles.

We are interlinked with everybody and therefore, they are helping us.

Last week, the Syrian Electronic Army briefly hacked President Obama’s official Twitter account and claimed to have accessed some of his sensitive campaign emails. And this follows months of speculation that Chinese […]

There is nothing more mind-numbing than reading in someone’s bio or profile a list of things they are “passionate” about, in a sentence that goes: “I am passionate about x, […]

The unemployment rate is high among young people, but much higher among the young of the working class.  What does this mean for the future of what we used to think of as “adulthood.”

The average American changes their career about four times. 

I just came to realize that what we got involved in and what I had been supporting was turning education into a desiccated, data-driven, anti-human activity and this would not encourage the love of learning. 

The world tends to reward specialists.

Within the field of artificial intelligence, a new Japanese initiative promises to further blur the line between human and machine. A group of AI researchers at Japan’s National Institute of Informatics just […]

Michael Simonds: It’s essential for us to understand that women can generate powerful results without mirroring male expectations and male style. 

As Neil deGrasse Tyson explains in “Dark Universe,” the Hayden Planetarium’s new space show at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, humans understand only 5% of the known universe. […]

I think we have a distorted vision of Dr. King because need him to be useful to us in ways that ameliorate our situation but also mollify our consciences.

Businesses are reaching the limits of what they can squeeze out of a downsized workforce. 

We’re in the midst of a muddle about how to understand the nature of patenting genes.

Often you’ll find yourself having those sleepless nights in Seattle and in other places and it’s only when you are asleep that you aren’t basically stuck with this metronome of worry. 

The government spends $4 billion a year, pays for 10 billion servings of soda for poor people every year. 

Let’s suppose you are running the perfect state, the perfect government.  You would want to go on a little world tour before you got down to business to see the […]

If you know only one work of modern art, it’s probably The Scream. More people know that “Mona Lisa” of modern angst than know the name of the artist that […]

The more ambitious economics becomes the more it has to engage with hard moral questions.

The more that we know how to leverage these social platforms to either donate our time or our energy or our money to either a natural disaster or even to a political revolution the more we can facilitate change.  

You can tell stories and then you can die, ultimately, and your stories can continue to have an effect on other people.