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Today, we are in the golden age of meltdowns. More and more of our systems are in the danger zone, but our ability to manage them hasn’t quite caught up.
A long-lost eight wonder of the world may have just been found in New Zealand.
One researcher called it “the ultimate in the miniaturization of machinery.”
The Space Aggressor squadrons develop strategies to defend against space-oriented attacks.
And if we don’t prepare to catch it now, it’ll be too late. Since 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope has been redefining how we view our Universe. From hundreds of miles […]
Turns out, organisms may be using quantum mechanics to gain evolutionary advantages.
Art is a key source of wisdom (it’s effects can be powerfully mind-altering). Here are some examples from Shakespeare (from Michael Witmore, director of the Folger Shakespeare Library).
It’s discovered thousands. But how many more are out there? “How vast those Orbs must be, and how inconsiderable this Earth, the Theatre upon which all our mighty Designs, all our […]
Get lost in a good book. Time and again, reading has been shown to make us healthier, smarter, and more empathic.
Should Jon Snow go to Dragonstone? Should Samwell “operate” on Ser Jorah? The line between intuition and foolishness can only be drawn in hindsight.
A new C is coming to the C-suite: The Chief Robotics Officer, or CRO. Do I hear laughter or detect an eye roll? Think again. The bots are coming. Business […]
Scott Aukerman, the co-founder of ‘Between Two Ferns’, developed humor early on as a way disarm bullies. He knows from experience that, in comedy, your intentions really matter.
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Treating the theological and the political as warring forces stops us from looking at the more surprising ways that they interact and inform each other.
Hampshire College appoints some slime molds as scholars-in-residence.
For autonomous self-driving cars to truly take over, every road needs to be digitally mapped.
Just a few simple, common conditions can create the perfect storm. 80% of the time, humans are the trigger. “I’d rather fight 100 structure fires than a wildfire. With a structure […]
How can we make the internet a better place for kids? Google has just released a free program called Be Internet Awesome to educate kids on phishing, passwords, media literacy, and being kind online. Will it help?
Exterior mapping – like GPS maps – is part of daily life, but in the coming decades prepare to have your private, interior spaces mapped to assist with future technologies.
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From its symbolism within the Seven Kingdoms, to its political allegory for all of us beyond it, the season seven finale is an epic set-up for the final showdown.
There’s been an alarming uptick in sufferers of depression turning to opioids, increasing addiction numbers.
In his new book, Why Buddhism is True, Robert Wright admits he’s bad at meditation—and that’s part of his success.
This is huge news for the 285 million visually impaired people around the world.
At long last, we’re getting a confrontation with ethics, with science, and with human frailty, not just the Federation at war. “You are… six years old. You are weak and helpless! […]
Jonathon Keats proposes a “Reciprocal Biomimicry Initiative” to help return the favor after taking so many great ideas from them.
The computer it’s attached to can “see” potential hazards and alert the surgeon to them.
You might think Jupiter is large, but you’ll be surprised at what happens if you try and make it larger! “A few centuries ago, the pioneer navigators learnt the size and […]
A process which occurs in all mammals may be to blame.
There’s no science in this episode of science fiction… but there’s a lot of suspicious happenings that no one’s noticing. Following up on the best episode of the season, thus […]
A proto-consciousness field theory could replace the theory of dark matter, one physicist states.