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It’s true that we have a thermodynamic arrow of time, and entropy always increases. But that can’t explain what we perceive. One of the enormous conceptual ideas that came along […]
Future-minded companies are investing in soft skills and digital learning to empower their talent.
The Earth is warming, and humans aren’t doing nearly enough to combat it. Could partially blocking the sunlight be the solution? It’s 2020, and not only is the Earth warmer […]
Maybe, but that probably doesn’t mean what you think it does. Of all the unsolved puzzles in the Universe, perhaps the most confounding is the dark matter problem. If we look […]
It’s a great time to be an astrobiologist—and for all of us to be asking, “Are we alone?”
When it comes to theories of the universe, the Big Bang theory is almost accepted as a fact. However, it’s still uncertain, and some scientists believe that the universe didn’t began with a bang, but a bounce.
“There is a kind of whispering campaign — more than a whispering campaign, sometimes a yelling campaign — against the value of objective truth.” So says biologist and author Richard […]
Just because you don’t believe in God doesn’t mean you aren’t superstitious.
For eons, belonging to a tribe was essential for survival. But today?
“Everything in society today that can be solved by straightforward analysis gets solved immediately,” says Leonard Mlodinow, theoretical physicist and author of Elastic. Unfortunately, many problems aren’t that simple. To work […]
Turning the office into a place of artistry.
IT has been one of the fastest growing and most lucrative industries for a long time. But is that going to be true in the future?
Could Jerome Segal lead the country toward the utopia of our American dreams?
We mistakenly think a lack of productivity means employees just don’t care.
Archetypes of creation and the origin of all things.
Existential dread, meet astronomical wonder.
Despite warnings and protestations from astronomers and skywatchers, Starlink is moving fast and breaking things. In May of this year, Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched the first group of its new satellite […]
Glenn Albrecht has ideas about how to cope with the effects of a changing world: Invent a new language.
The images themselves will take your breath away, but the science we can extract from them is truly revolutionary and spectacular. Dark matter may be one of the most mysterious […]
How do we combat the roots of these hateful forces?
Abraham Maslow’s famous hierarchy of needs is depicted as a triangle with self-actualization at the very top. Right before his death, Maslow wanted to add another to the hierarchy: Self-transcendence.
Richard Lyon’s visionary plan for the future of innovation at Berkeley.
Forensic cartography 101: Explain what Brasilia is doing on this map of 1920s South America.
President Trump has called for Silicon Valley to develop digital precogs, but such systems raise efficacy concerns.
The blob that’s astonishing science gets its own exhibit.
The Sun will eventually become a red giant star, swallowing Mercury and Venus in the process. But what will happen to Earth? There are a few existential questions we can ask […]
And does it require the idea of ‘negative gravity’ in order to work? The biggest question that we’re even capable of asking, with our present knowledge and understanding of the Universe, […]