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It is quite possible that future generations will view A-Rod, and his baseball peers who have used PEDs, as victims of circumstance. 

I’m not sure where to begin on the ethics of this. On the up side, inspiring kids to learn about technology such as this could directly lead to promising careers […]

A built-in webcam captures the person’s face, then tweaks the expression using software. Tests showed that subjects were more likely to “like” a garment when they saw themselves smiling in the mirror.

“Paranoia’s the garlic in life’s kitchen,” remarks the central character, Maxine Tarnow, of Thomas Pynchon’s latest novel, Bleeding Edge. “You can never have too much.” Pynchon seasons his latest epic […]

Since open access publishers are effectively paid up front, the more papers they accept, the more money they make.

Harnessing relativity, technology can even give us the time to live.

There’s no consensus yet as to how we should think about a lot of these biotechnologies.  It’s what we’re working out.

Business work today is about grit, perseverance and a good work ethic.  This is where our kids fall down.

The anticipated pain and the fear of what might happen by coming out is less scary than a life in the closet. 

The top rung of Patanjali’s eight-limbed Ashtanga ladder, Samadhi, has been defined in numerous ways. Usually associated with the last step before enlightenment, it is translated as ‘ecstasy,’ and has […]

Why are prisoners so religious?

Shengren, Junzi, Ruxue: The Chinese World is Coming Back in Full Circle “…the creator, when he arises, always finds himself overwhelmingly outnumbered by the inert uncreative mass…” – Arnold J. […]

Called chimeras, animals that share essentially human biological qualities, such as human organs from the liver to the brain, are under development in Japan as a way of harvesting organs for transplant.

Imagine you have a friend who, like many high-achieving people, has a goal. In the service of that goal, your friend eats very little and ends up looking like skin […]

The modern dictator needs only to become a client-state to Russia or China (or to be Russia or China), and there is nothing he can’t get away with. We members of open societies have the power to change that. All we need is the resolve.

The power to make living creatures is something that we humans, and quite rightly so, tend to hold sacred. 

Of course. But a lot of people apparently aren’t so sure. In its screed against Janet Yellen, vice chair of the Fed since 2010 and one of the three candidates […]

The people who waved their American flags and shout about patriotism and at the same time don’t want immigrants to come across our borders or are concerned about illegal immigrants have missed the entire point of America.

For the reader, art connoisseur, music fan, or student, this is a “money for nothing and your chicks for free” kind of world (Google the lyrics if you’re too young […]

Shakespeare was malleable in every way aesthetically and ethically.

Spreading luck around isn’t as easy as it sounds.

When you click on an article you are voting. You’re telling an editor to produce more content like that at the expense of the stuff that you didn’t click on.

Lee Smolin’s argument that there is no scientific method attracted a lot of attention yesterday, including the following rebuttal from reader Dave Nussbaum. 

Introducing Buddhism, Blasphemy, and Blackmail

The scientific mindset, Steven Pinker argues, is “indispensable in all areas of human concern, including politics, the arts, and the search for meaning, purpose, and morality.”

I’ve read the claims that young Americans in their 20s are selfish, self-absorbed, lazy, and a cultural and moral declension of their predecessors. This generational bleat is as old as […]

Having superpowers, without the enlightened self-interest in making your company extraordinary, is the fast track to self-destruction.

Science works because scientists form communities and traditions based not on a common set of methods, but a common set of ethical principles.

Here are all of the arguments against Edward Snowden. This is why they are wrong.

Globalization has resulted in a call for a global ethics, one in which all the people of the world are considered part of the human family. Unfortunately, empathy does not function on such a large scale.