Software testing can only simulate user behavior and demand in this kind of large-scale technology deployment; it can’t really pattern what will happen.
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The secret to cultivating internal energy is to relax the nervous and muscuskeletal system simultaneously. Chi animates the body and makes it alive.
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 […]
A hawk is somebody who wants to keep all the data and a dove is somebody who says no, we need to anonymize it.
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Researchers have confirmed that Tamu Massif, located in the northern Pacific, is a single volcano rather than a composite of different eruption points. At 120,000 square miles in size, it’s about as big as the entire state of New Mexico.
A dormant tie is somebody that you had a meaningful history with at some point but have lost touch in the past few years.
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Many Americans seem to hold on to a romanticized portrait of Columbus even when they are exposed to his dark side.
Scientists have located the specific brain region involved in the spread of ideas. Called the temporoparietal junction, it could help clarify why some ideas fall flat while others go viral.
Don’t worry that you haven’t read every last thing because A) nobody else has and B) most of it you don’t need anyway.
Though the subculture of privacy enthusiasts will strengthen, don’t expect it to grow significantly or to influence mainstream behaviors in any major way.
The consumerization of health care will outfit patients with personalized digital devices while making them more responsible for preventative care, i.e. maintaining their own health.
How the closest supernova in a generation — soon to be visible to skywatchers almost everywhere — is about to help us better understand the entire Universe. “I saw a star explode and send […]
The Filip is an exceedingly smart smartwatch: It allows parents to monitor their kids using a smartphone app and send one-way text messages, and has an emergency button that, when pressed, broadcasts location information.
So here’s some savvy conservative commentary on Saturday Night Live’s hilarious fake promo for the new season of the HBO hit Girls. Introducing a needed note of realism into the show is the new […]
The year-old startup, which operates in San Francisco and Austin, has many plans for people’s mail, not the least of which is “making [it] as sortable and searchable as email.”
Some financial companies look at potential borrowers’ social media footprint — including their friends and, eventually, their friends’ credit scores — to determine whether they qualify.
Answer: Hormones. That’s true, but not the whole predicament. Middle school has issues. The problem is often folded into a larger, if illusory, “problem” of the U.S. public school system […]
Neuroscientists have taught a computer program how pixels from brain scans correspond to individual pixels in letters of the alphabet.
Many Americans are being misled on serious scientific issues, and science journalists have to spend an inordinate amount of time debunking myths which seemingly never die.
Note: Yesterday’s Praxis post, “What Your Yearbook Photo Says About Your Gender,” critiqued the latent sexism in instructions to students at a New York City school on how to primp […]
“If you want to go to a top-tier school…;” It’s a “lower-tier school, but good…” In conversations about college, you often hear rankings-focused comments. It’s difficult to remember the time […]
Lasting power is accorded to only a handful of presidents, especially after their death. There is no doubt that John Kennedy is one of the few. How did it happen?
90% of the news in the newspaper and on television is negative because that’s what we pay attention to.
A medical researcher at Imperial College London has created a smart knife which can tell doctors within three seconds if a group of tissue is cancerous or not, making biopsies possible during operations.
Your client’s expectations about technology tend to come from his or her experience as a consumer.
Sal Khan, the founder of Khan Academy, is using technology to “flip the classroom” and in the process revolusationize education.
Having a strategic plan is a vital aspect of any successful organization. Unfortunately, most organizations have strategic plans that are really financial plans in disguise. And the larger the organization, […]
Over the short haul, they all work. Even four grapefruits and a prune a day will do the job for a week or two. The real issue is stabilizing your weight. That means forever.