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A group of shops in the Czech city loans customers free folding bikes in exchange for a deposit of about US$16. The program’s small size demonstrates that bike-sharing needn’t be a big corporate-led endeavor.
When people say that an art movement or school “died out,” they usually don’t mean it literally. In the case of the Italian Futurists, however, you can specify the day […]
Released today (Sept. 27) after an all-night session, the summary document of the UN panel’s forthcoming report declares that the proof of climate change is “unequivocal” and that human activity is “extremely likely” to be at fault.
Now that Facebook and other sites are incorporating more photo features, writer Molly McHugh takes note of how images are starting to replace — rather than complement — text as a means of communication.
If we want to fail fast and fail hard, we should be sure to be mindful about disrupting gurus of innovation.
“Universal History, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.” –Thomas Carlyle, 1840 1. Be that […]
According to recent neurological insight, the muse is more apt to reward long periods of sustained concentration than intermittent fits of vision.
I loathe Amazon’s book business for a few reasons, but one of the deepest is its Vine program that offers free books to customers who are prolific in their opinions. […]
Not because winning could turn you into a literal fat cat: Research suggests that simply buying tickets leads to materialistic thoughts followed by diminished self-restraint in the here and now.
TruTag Technologies’ edible, silica-based microtags contain a wealth of specific data and can be used in both pharmaceuticals and food.
“The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.” – A. Bartlett Giamatti
As study after study shows, women receive an enormous amount of abuse for any online activity: whether as journalists, sex writers, performers. Just being a woman (online) is sufficient to […]
I was in a creative nonfiction program some years ago, and as part of the program, students would visit with culture magazine editors in New York. An editor explained to […]
Having it all is statistically impossible because every single choice you make narrows your choices (the choices you might make in the future), rendering having it all impossible.
English novelist, journalist, and short story writer Will Self counsels his readership to remain negative, or at least pessimistic, which is how his mother would have wanted it.
More of them are appearing on some Kentucky streets as residents look for gas-friendlier alternatives. Also, most states already have laws allowing them to share certain roads with regular traffic. Writer Eric Jaffe asks: Why golf carts and not electric cars?
Writers who now publish skeptical thoughts about the field of neuroscience are confirming what the public-at-large has known for five years, according to data gathered by Slate’s Daniel Engber.
Adam Conway’s custom-built drone only cost about US$100 to make, and although it still needs a bit of work, the technology behind it could prove useful in a variety of situations.
A California school district says that safety is the reason why it hired tracking company Geo Listening to monitor students’ posts.
Being smart is highly overrated, according to Kenneth Goldsmith, the Museum of Modern Art’s first poet laureate. Goldsmith, who considers himself a very dumb writer, likes to copy past artists.
A new agreement targeting Dutch content publishers involves linking an e-book’s digital watermark to the purchaser’s account. That way, if a copy of the e-book ends up on a pirating site, the publishers will know who to come after.
The nicest response to a critic who gives a product (particularly films, games, comics, etc.) a low score is fans’ insistence that the critic is wrong. Of course, many fans […]
Judging from their mid-term essays, I would say that among the many and diverse books and essays we’ve read so far in my course in technology, the one that has impressed the […]
More than 60 years after her death, Lacks’ genetic material can no longer be used by researchers without family consent. Is the same true for the rest of us? Not exactly.
Leo Tolstoy was a great Russian novelist and essayist and philosopher and crazy person, as well as an idea entrepreneur in his own way.
A recent demonstration of technology used to detect bridge stresses leads writer Stacey Higginbotham to speculate on what a connected infrastructure could mean for society.
A Pew Research Center survey released this week revealed that despite Americans’ optimism about advances in medical technology, a slight majority said they wouldn’t want to have their lifespans extended past 120 with such technology.
When I was 15, my geography teacher almost ruined maps for me. He stubbornly avoided what fascinated me about cartography: the why and how of those borderlines that cut and […]
We’ve all been there. The Internet comment section stares at us, blinking its sexy open space, inviting us to put words all over it, to tell the world why the […]