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Scientists are looking at increasingly risky ways of combating climate change.
The man with “the hardest job in Washington” abruptly announced his resignation the day after fulfilling his personal dream: hosting a sitting pope in Congress.
Let’s change the market by controlling the market.
It can diminish the quality of your work in the long-term.
This could really revolutionize higher education.
Are too many taking liberties with the logic of our freedoms? A smart reassessment of Henry David Thoreau’s work spotlights key related issues.
After all of Google’s road tests, Tesla makes a bold move.
Many of us need to share where we were on 9/11, and telling our story may be the best way for us to heal.
The science behind selfish behavior has been revealed, and it’s pretty disturbing.
The obvious answer is yes, of course. But they often do not show it.
Lemurs, humans, sea birds — they’re all at risk. But we can change our fates if we choose to acknowledge what’s happening.
If you live in China, Finland, or Switzerland, you could be closer to receiving your packages from flying robots. Meanwhile, the FAA is not taking action on drone regulation.
America is one of the wealthiest nations in the world, so how could people from much poorer ones be better off health-wise than us?
If you remove the media microscope, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah has promise but should have more “with Trevor Noah.”
Three passages that will pay dividends when parsed carefully by a patient reader.
For an affluent Western country, the United States has an usually high proportion of its people living in warm-to-tropical climates, which are breeding grounds for parasites.
Sure their students won a debate against Harvard, but that’s only one reason the Bard Prison Initiative is changing the way we think about criminals.
It’s able to see patterns rather than all possible solutions.
Researchers are looking for signs of life in different places: in their destruction, like that of a nuclear apocalypse.
Scientific innovation is not only one of America’s greatest successes, but also what makes America great.
You can get as much done in six hours as you can in eight hours, but with much less wasted time.
The world’s most powerful and influential nations are democracies that have been ineffective (at best) at combating climate change.
Apple CEO Tim Cook came out in order to help gay young people do the same. But what if every LGBT public figure had the same bravery?
As neuroscience has begun studying the mind, they have looked to those who have mastered the mind. University of British Columbia researchers have verified the Buddhist belief of anatta, or not-self.
Carly Fiorina is rising in the polls and raising Donald Trump’s ire, likely resulting in a Rock-Em-Sock-Em Robot Edition of the GOP debates.
It’s extremely difficult for new technologies to also envision the ways we will relate to each other in the future.
I’m a granola-eating hippie liberal, and I kind of admire Carly Fiorina. What happens when we like a person, but hate their politics?
About 1.15 million people in the U.S. have died from gun violence since John Lennon’s death 35 years ago. What can his life and music tell us about how to respond to violence, intolerance, and hate?
We need to talk openly about the world we live in because evil thrives on silence and secrecy. I’d go so far as to say that it can’t exist without them.