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Women have come a long way in the arts, but there’s still a long way to go. It’s not so unusual to find the work of contemporary women artists in […]

The liner is made out of a special type of cardboard that mimics the layer of spongy cartilage separating the bird’s beak from its skull.

Michael Malice is one of those uniquely New York characters. An immigrant from the former Soviet Union, the thirty-six year old with spikey hair, cunning eyes, and a constant mischievous […]

Writers and historians enjoy making the case for one or another thinker as the starting point for an epoch. Did Galileo launch the scientific revolution? Or was it Copernicus? Or […]

When an unexpected, stressful event happens to us, do we ever stop to ask why? Or is it too late to ask? We fall into an abyss and ask questions later.

We spend 80 million hours a day watching videos on YouTube, and we would certainly like to have a few of those hours back. That is, of course, if we are […]

Inspired by a comic strip, a geneticist has created a text editor that restricts writers to the 1000 most commonly used words in the English language.

Some things that you think happened to you probably didn’t. That’s just the nature of memory, says popular author and neurology professor Oliver Sacks, and that’s a good thing.

The purpose of physics is to tell us the story about our world and where we as human beings fit in a wider cosmological scheme. That is why outsider physics, like folk art, works as good imaginative brain teasing.

Few things are as painful to watch in movies as an activity you know and love being portrayed poorly. From the awkward baseball swings of athletically challenged actors to the […]

When Yahoo recently terminated its telecommuting policy, forcing employees to return to the office rather than work from home, it likely stymied the creative capacities of its work force.

Designed by mobile tech company Chaotic Moon to capture events taking place during an accident, it has one of the coolest names ever: The Helmet of Justice.

One of Sandberg’s important points, in my opinion, is that women should cross the bridge of work-family conflict when they get to it.

“The owl of Minerva,” Hegel wrote, “takes its flight only when the shades of night are gathering.” A year ago I launched Praxis as a forum for thinking reflectively about […]

By 2017, over half of the almost-1,200 islands comprising the country of Maldives will come under guidelines set by two United Nations programs for preserving natural resources.

These are SIX quality questions that will kickstart you on the path to achieving your dreams.

Nobody said putting a man or woman on the surface of Mars was going to be easy. As NASA astronaut Buzz Aldrin explains in his new book, Mission to Mars, it’s […]

NASA’s recent discovery of two Earth-like planets within the Kepler-62 solar system – the most Earth-like planets ever detected – is creating excitement in the scientific community that we’re close to finding […]

If you live long enough everything can happen. Cloning, Honey Boo Boo, a feature movie based on “The Brady Bunch,” Twitter… “I miss the 1970s,” a friend says at a […]

 The most revealing and important line in Angelina Jolie’s OpEd in the New York Times today  is not the one in which she reveals she has had her breasts removed […]

Unlike America’s “Yule Log,” this fireplace is accompanied by poetry readings and commentary from “firewood specialists.” The show — which will run for 12 hours straight — is the latest “slow TV” offering from the NRK television network.

Despite never being keen on French wine in the past, Chinese consumers — and investors — are helping to grow sales in the region.

The 21st century requires a new kind of learner—not someone who can simply churn out answers by rote, but a student who can think expansively and solve problems resourcefully.

Gamification, using game mechanics to improve learning, engagement and behavior change, has been a trend for a long time now. Make it a game! Everything from fitness to work to […]

The first day of the new year always represents the potential for profound renewal—a new cycle in relationship to the passing of time, a precious moment in which many of […]

What Tyson has done is presented science from another angle. Call it the “we don’t know it yet” angle.

Do you live on your own edge? Living on the edge is exactly what inspired, highly motivated people aspire to always do. Last December, I went to the grand finale […]

Congratulations to all the new graduates who have successfully accomplished this most impressive of endeavors.

It’s time to bring in an expert in conflict resolution to help President Obama and Republican leaders in Congress work together for the sake of all Americans. 

Cruelty preoccupies me. I find that stories of cruelty stay with me, hauntingly, and infiltrate deeply. I cannot conceive of it in its most basic elements, the physical act of […]