As autonomous cars slowly move closer to reality, designers from different disciplines are looking at how they will change the rules of the road, as well as the road itself.
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In the hours following the deaths of more than 50 Egyptians in Cairo earlier today there were wildly divergent accounts of what actually happened. Here is a summary, from Wendell […]
Mobile phone technology built into the bracelet can send alerts if the worker is in trouble. Additionally, people can sign up to keep watch over individual workers through social media.
The afterlife, in the words of Tennyson [1], is “that untravell’d world whose margin fades / For ever and forever when I move”. Death is the ultimate one-way trip, its […]
Companies like Facebook do have human rights responsibilities.
Conducted by Carnegie Mellon University, a new scientific study has found that people make better decisions about buying new cars after they have been distracted by an unrelated task.
To decrease the cost of health care, and improve the lives of patients, medical professionals are taking lessons from the developing world, where low-cost treatment is a basic requirement.
With the slow death of “appointment television” comes an increasing tendency for spoilers to pop up in unexpected places. Writer Sean T. Collins discusses fans’ and critics’ attempts to preserve the suspense.
University of Wisconsin scientists have lifted a self-imposed moratorium on flu research, initially imposed for fear that information on flu mutations could fall into the wrong hands.
We’ve known for some time that there is a great disparity in the number of followers people have on Twitter – 80% of Twitter users have less than 10 followers, […]
First things first – I’m not a doctor, but the surprise new rules issued by the GMC (the British regulator for doctors) still worry me. Not just because I might perhaps one day […]
Flower Power is a sensor that, when inserted into a plant’s pot, monitors its health and sends information, including alerts, to a smartphone or tablet.
It’s been a bad few weeks for RadioPhobia, the powerful fear of radiation that far exceeds the actual risk. From three different places come new examples of this version […]
If degree-of-blindness is measurable (which it is), then researchers should, in fact, measure it and disclose it as part of any study that’s purported to be “blinded.”
It used to be that any change in an organization would flow from the top down—from the executives to the front line workers. But today, especially when it comes to […]
In traditional Sufism, a seeker would find a teacher and study under him for a number of years in a particular order, or turuq. During that time the seeker would […]
Very few countries allow direct-to-consumer advertising by drug companies, but in those that do (New Zealand, Canada, and the U.S.), the medicine-buying public has been brainwashed to believe that mental […]
Scientific geniuses tend to share a passion for abstraction that doesn’t lend itself to easy communication.
On Monday voice-recognition tech company Nuance announced its Voice Ads platform, which will enable companies to create ads that can have conversations with customers.
A team of British researchers will soon begin testing an electrical device which, by attaching to a nerve that controls the body’s appetite for food, could provide an alternative to weight-loss surgery.
Find those who love to help, and let them help.
What big data means is we are able to learn things about ourselves at the population level, at a huge scale, that we never could in the past.
Researchers were able to uniquely identify 95 percent of individuals simply by analyzing four times and locations when cell phones were in use. They recommend their results be used to influence future policies on privacy and technology.
This brings me to an ancient Greek, the master himself, Socrates of Athens. In a segment of Gorgias that foresees decades of modern psychological research, the erudite interlocutor observes that […]
The demo video shows Raytheon’s Riot using social media to “gain an entire snapshot of a person’s life…in little more than a few clicks of a button.”
Learning is no longer a singular event, but rather an ongoing project to keep yourself updated with the latest skills and knowledge.
Follow basic human attributes. People want to feel respected. They want to feel part of a community. They want to have connections.
When you think of social media, the first thing that comes to mind is probably Facebook. That’s no surprise considering that as of April […]
It seems like everywhere you look on the Internet these days, you’ll see the ubiquitous hashtag. The hashtag was the “Word of the Year” in 2012, and for good reason. What […]
In industries where casual is the new normal, some are adopting formal and informal policies where workers come dressed in their corporate best.