Google Glass. Life Extension. Life Extinction. These are among the brainiest memes included in the inaugural post of our new blog, Mind Memes, which offers quick reads on the Internet […]
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Here are 9 ways to change your behavior so you can be more productive.
As a spectator you generate a fair amount of creativity in reconstructing an image in your head in a way that is unique for you and is slightly different for me.
Is there any meaningful correlation between guns and violence? A survey of scientific studies reveals some surprising — not to mention controversial — insights.
I think a little perspective is order. The incendiary advice of Susan Patton ‘77, a Princeton alumna, that Princeton women find husbands while at college and marry early, has crashed […]
To paraphrase Tennyson, in the spring, a young (or old) man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of baseball. It’s “love” in the original, or course. When I saw a notice […]
The 5 Point Cafe, located near the Space Needle as well as Amazon headquarters, may be the first business to bar the augmented reality device from its premises…and it probably won’t be the only one.
Post-rationalist government—where laws and regulations conform to human psychology rather than to the notion that each individual is a logical calculator—is a hot idea these days. Next to old-school policies […]
Taking a clue from the mobile computing industry, major automakers are either designing or thinking about designing customized apps that a driver can download from their car’s monitor.
Far from the aloof practitioner of new-age feel-good solutions, viewing dilemmas as opportunities rather than life-crushing problems—in a word, being optimistic—has real benefits.
Teddy Goff will be appearing on Big Think to discuss how the lessons of digital politics can be applied, albeit in smaller scale, to your life or your business.
Since the Victorian invention of the modern, romantic concept of childhood, images of the innocent child have dominated Anglo-American culture and its art. Even nude images of young children that […]
Life didn’t come with a guidebook! We write it as we go along, and sometimes we fudge it!
We are going to create synthetic neocortexes in order to extend our own neocortexes.
Today’s smart phones are much more than phones—they are powerful, networked multimedia computers, and over the next 10 years they’ll get far more advanced. As a result, mobility is transforming […]
How can the United States collectively face rising health care costs, a broken healthcare system, and public health epidemics such as obesity and diabetes? Three top medical innovators offer solutions.
Solar power could very well be responsible for over a third of our energy supply by the year 2060.
Our current thinking on productivity demands us to be bigger, stronger, faster without regard to the fact that both time and energy are finite resources. To work better, relax more often.
1. Every Big Idea Was First A Crazy Idea Fred Guterl, executive editor of Scientific American, does a nice job of highlighting some of the crazy ideas presented at this year’s TED […]
Women have come a long way in the arts, but there’s still a long way to go. It’s not so unusual to find the work of contemporary women artists in […]
“The owl of Minerva,” Hegel wrote, “takes its flight only when the shades of night are gathering.” A year ago I launched Praxis as a forum for thinking reflectively about […]
Far from receiving information about the world as it is, our biology—and psychology—filter what we perceive to be reality to a very high degree. Mindfulness can help us notice our surroundings.
More often than not it’s the one lone instrument, person, human that senses something that no one else does.
While diets high in saturated fats are known to increase cholesterol levels, exactly how cholesterol influences heart disease remains to be fully understood, say scientists.
Where were you when you first learned that there are plastic landfills the size of continents floating in our oceans? What should have been a wake-up call hasn’t slowed the […]
Consumers are no longer engaged in the linear model of traditional marketing, but through a cycle, indeed a journey, across digital, mobile and social platforms.
1. Is the Purpose of Life to Make Babies? Why are we here? To fullfil some grand purpose or merely to perpetuate our genes? Is the act of helping to ensure […]
Every teacher is obligated to devote teaching time to direct test prep.
The impending catastrophe has been fueled by a skewed, institutionally enclosed rationality that is widespread within the business community; the basic principle is that short-term power and wealth are more important than human survival.
Do you live on your own edge? Living on the edge is exactly what inspired, highly motivated people aspire to always do. Last December, I went to the grand finale […]