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.
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Conservative NYT columnist Ross Douthat explores the next stage of creeping—and sometimes creepy—American libertarianism. We Americans are still becoming less Puritanical, if by Puritanical we remain a combination of religious […]
Kas Thomas: The evidence is substantial enough that people should start thinking about taking substantial amounts of vitamin D as prophylaxis against cancers of all kinds.
New research suggests that the "automaton-like" nature of the typical immersive video game avatar can desensitize players to their own pain and that of others, regardless of the level of violence in the game.
A small but growing group of atheists is working with an NGO that is introducing multidenominational education in a country where over 90 percent of schools are Catholic.
A secondary school in Hangzhou is one of several throughout China that have implemented rules designed to keep teens' focus on the books and off each other. They have been met with outrage from social media users.
The external packaging is far less important to Internet pioneers than what is inside.
Movie trailers are a perfect example of content that goes viral.
A bit, the smallest unit of information, the fundamental particle of information theory, is a choice, yes or no, on or off.
I feel this tendency to come up with an evolutionary explanation for basically everything under the sun is not needed.
You try and stare a baby out on the metro and you’re on a loser pal.
As we learn about things more deeply and more deeply, we will discover that in fact, there’s all kinds of peripheral work to be done that we couldn’t have even imagined looking forward.
The mantra of the whole investment industry is simply not true.
IN THE old days of the three European missions – imperialism, colonialism, and orientalism – scholars insisted on the existence of Asian “philosophies” and, naturally, they called Asian thinkers “philosophers.” […]
There's a million apps out there, and if you look through all of them they're doing remarkable things.
What has happened to the founding virtues of the United States over the last half century? The news is fairly grim.
We have to grow about 70 percent more food by 2050 to feed the population.
It seems to me that our communication will begin in terms of mathematics and physics.
We live in a country so cool you can take the flag and burn it on stage in Vegas.
Figuring out how to build a brain is a very powerful intellectual exercise for sure, but the project is a long way off.
Vancouver is now home to a machine that accepts and dispenses only cash and Bitcoin account data. The goal, say its owners, is to make the virtual currency easier to buy and sell.
If just stay on the same pathway every single day that's going to be a pretty predictable pathway of what you're going down now.
I always like to drink something that hydrates me at the same time because I usually forget to drink water.
Leibniz complained in the seventeenth century about the horrible mass of books that was overwhelming Europe and he said threatened a return to barbarism.
Your assessment of how long something took has a lot to do with how much energy your brain has to burn during the event.
I think that it’s great to inspire new generations of thinkers; it’s terrible to create new authority.
How can a more realistic outlook on the 1950s shed light on the times we are living through today?
When you can’t have something, when it’s not going to work out for you, find a way to not want it.
A few weeks ago Mayor of London Boris Johnson said some questionable things about IQ tests and the benefits of greed, income inequality and shaking boxes of cornflakes. Dorothy Bishop wrote an […]
Tony Robbins says, "most people over-estimate what they can do in a year and under-estimate what they can do in a lifetime."