Like Occupy Wall Street, the Arab Spring in Tunisia began as a nonviolent protest for a more meritocratic society. The United States needs a new settlement, too. The problem now is that Americans cannot agree on what it should be.
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A new photovoltaic energy-conversion system with many practical applications developed at M.I.T. can be powered solely by heat, generating electricity with no sunlight at all.
From his iconic I ♥ NY logo to his prolific newspaper and magazine designs, Glaser is revered for his exceptional visual output and his thoughtful reflections on the role of design at large.
Over the coming months, I will be blogging regularly on the topic of polarization, highlighting research and trends on the nature, causes, and possible solutions to the nation’s political paralysis. […]
Equipping robots with language and learning capabilities could take some of the heat off human handlers, enabling the robots to navigate tough tasks in small groups.
While we consider the Internet to be fundamental to the flowering of democracy abroad, what about here in America? The Founding Fathers could never have imagined an Internet “Kill Switch” bill passing through the Congress, or the government-mandated seizure of domain names, or the decision of the government to selectively shut down certain parts of the Internet. They also could never have imagined Wiki-Leaks or Anonymous or LulzSec, and the limits to what type of information governments should have to divulge.
Whether it’s swinging on a pendulum or riding a rocket tricycle, the former M.I.T. professor, now on YouTube, finds different ways to assist students as they study the laws of physics.
A potentially serious hurricane bears down on tens of millions of people in the Northeast. How will they respond? The psychology of risk perception suggests that some might be at risk not just from the weather itself but also from the danger that arises when our fears don’t match the facts.
Quick note for this evening – Twitter follower @ikmar made me aware of an eruption at Soputan in Indonesia. The little news I’ve found about the eruption (Indonesian) have been […]
Our always-on society is becoming a Golden Age for introverts, in which it has become easier to carve out time for oneself while meeting the needs of our extroverted friends.
Today, another Ig-Nobel Prize installment, this time from the actual winner in Psychology, Karl Halvor Teigen. The question: why do we sigh? Is a sigh, as that all-time greatest song […]
War is hell. The culture war is no exception—and the funny bone is usually the first casualty. The recent talk about abortion and contraception got me thinking, what would the […]
Scientists are getting closer to creating life from a test tube in laboratory settings. Thanks to machines that replicate R.N.A. strands, Earth may be the first place we experience alien life.
Did the Bush administration illegally spy on Middle Eastern studies professor and blogger Juan Cole in an attempt to discredit him? Glenn L. Carle, a former Central Intelligence Agency officer […]
You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door. There is a small mailbox here. This simple, succinct introduction opens the door […]
Decentralization by way of cloud computing and the rise of green information technology are future trends to look for, says Kamal Sharma, C.I.O. of Mindlance, an I.T. infrastructure provider.
Even those who know and remember many historical facts still repeat the mistakes of that past.
— Guest post by Luis Hestres, American University doctoral student. Ever since the financial crisis hit the U.S. in late 2008, many political commentators (mostly on the Left) have wondered […]
For the Notehall founders note sharing paid off quite well. In June their start-up got acquired by textbook rental juggernaut Chegg for an undisclosed amount in cash and stock. Notehall […]
The future of global innovation is the Brazilian favela, the Mumbai slum and the Nairobi shanty-town. At a time when countries across the world, from Latin America to Africa to […]
Responding to both its Buzz disaster and Facebook’s ongoing privacy concerns, Google+ decided to make privacy its top priority: Google has chosen to opt users out of being public.
After Egypt’s military appointed a new executive cabinet, protesters once again took to Tahrir Square, so what role is social media playing in these renewed attempts at social change?
We’ve reached a unique paradox in American political culture today: Both liberals and conservatives view the mainstream media as biased, yet tend to believe that their own ideologically-like minded outlets […]
The scientific concept that will most impact our world is the idea that will unify two opposite ideas, those of Newton and Einstein, says Big Thinker Ajitkumar Tampi Trivikram.
Understanding the human ability to distinguish different odors may open the door to new ways of thinking about how the brain processes information and how we learn.
A 5.8 earthquake hits the East Cost. New Yorkers quake. Californians laugh. Along comes a Category 1—no wait, tropical storm—hurricane. Now, not all New Yorkers are quaking; instead, while some […]
Crack open any standard text on modern art since the end of World War II and you’ll read how New York City took over as the art world capitol from […]
Sales of the doomed News of the World increased by 30% we are reliably informed on the day the newspaper closed, and on the day Rupert Murdoch flew in dressed […]
With a well-established customer base, plus up and coming innovations in education and video, Amazon’s new tablet may be best poised the challenge the dominant iPad.