Siddhartha Mukherjee explores the genetics of sex and sexual identity in his new book, The Gene: An Intimate History.
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The immersive nature of virtual reality is worrying. We need to fully understand the path we’re headed down as new technologies are seemingly recreating our physical, kinetic lives.
World’s biggest island? Up for discussion. The next 25? See this map.
Earth day may have been last week, but the lessons we learned about Earth from space are with us always. “We are not learning to view ourselves as an advanced, evolving […]
This is a map of the online world. Each country is resized for the popularity of its domain name. The eye is immediately drawn to the map’s greatest anomaly: Tokelau.
Response to the passing of Antonin Scalia has been truly bipartisan: No one’s mourning and everyone’s demanding.
Is Amanda Palmer (who turns 40 today!), queen of pop-up concerts, kickstarter, and social media, the prototypical artist of the future?
In his latest book Bold, Peter Diamandis notes that exponential entrepreneurs need to keep an eye out for emerging technologies — such as virtual reality — about to emerge in a big way.
It’s not as black and white, left brain/right brain as the theories of yore.
The technology draws on the concepts established by theatre companies like Punchdrunk that create an immersive world for an audience to explore while the narrative unfolds around them.
Nathan Eagle is the CEO of Jana, and its product is the mCent app. It addresses two issues facing emerging markets: giving users the ability to access the internet for free and helping connect major corporations with its next billion potential customers.
When you make anything Minecraft- or Frozen- or Star Wars-themed, it’s hard to keep kids away.
We heard the news today, 46 years ago, that the Beatles were no more. But who was the real killer in the magical mystery tour of the Fab Four’s finale?
Syrian refugees and others are in crisis, but to approach the problem with temporary solutions won’t get us very far.
An engineering professor at Oakland University has a surprising answer.
We have a relationship with the Internet that influences and, in some cases, drives our behaviors. Some would call it an addiction.
Londoners are defined by the sounds of their city — and here are the maps to prove it.
Researchers tested police on major misconceptions about the psychology of policing
The largest asteroid in the Solar System is hiding volatile materials that have never seen the Sun. “Lots of science fiction deals with distant times and places. Intrepid prospectors in the […]
Creating a fabric of knowledge to inspire and connect the world.
Hawking’s greatest achievement is also the greatest source of misunderstanding. “Maybe that is our mistake: maybe there are no particle positions and velocities, but only waves. It is just that […]
On the 500th anniversary of the death of Dutch artist Hieronymus Bosch, his native Netherlands is letting the freak flags fly.
Pretty soon, these maps may be as dated as the Bing Crosby song
The tale of a young man driven to his death for fighting for what is right, and the young woman picking up where he left off.
Artists such as Glenn Ligon still look to comedian Richard Pryor to make sense of the African-American experience.
Virtual reality company Fove doesn’t just want to manufacture a VR headset; it wants to make one with eye-tracking technology.
Don’t know Ellsworth Kelly or his art? Now’s your chance — he’s dead.
Let the French flag fly on Facebook. It flies for us all. It flies for life.
This could really revolutionize higher education.