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For years we have been fascinated with the artistic prowess of Leonardo da Vinci.
Have you ever had the experience of giving up on a problem and coming back to it some time later to find its solution suddenly obvious? According to Barbara Oakley, […]
Famous inventors and scientists submission to the daily grind
A transformational tool for the future of the world.
Convergence 2.0: Engineers are using the “natural genius” of biological systems to produce extraordinary machines—self-assembling batteries, cancer-detecting nanoparticles, super-efficient water filters made from proteins found in blood cells. Neuroscientist and MIT President Emerita Susan Hockfield and host Jason Gots discuss what all this could mean for our future.
“I was so moved when I saw the cells stir,” said 90-year-old study co-author Akira Iritani. “I’d been hoping for this for 20 years.”
The new podcast is a deep dive into human nature.
2019 offers an outstanding selection of books, accessories, and much more for the science-lover in your life! With each passing year, a whole slew of new scientific discoveries, refinements, and improvements […]
The 8th century AD was a tough time to be a genius from a poor family in China. Poet and novelist Ha Jin on the tortured life of the legendary drunken poet Li Bai. Also: panpsychism, the value of idleness, and humanities education in America today.
Biographies, treatises and stories on the occult and its strange cast of characters.
Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon.com, explains his plan for success.
Albert Einstein is synonymous with genius. While we’re all aware of his outstanding contributions to science, much of his brilliance is incomprehensible to us because it pertains to such an […]
A DNA test promises to reveal your hidden history — but is it all smoke and mirrors?
Renowned scientists and technologists who’ve passed away in 2018.
Why would two intelligent women running a hugely successful podcast at one of the most respected studios in the audio world quit to risk everything on a technology almost nobody understands?
Is Juche an ideology, a scam, or a very strange religion?
All the prayers in the world to the Flying Spaghetti Monster probably won’t help.
The Royole Corporation beat Samsung to the punch when it recently released the world’s first commercially available folding smartphone.
Most people don’t just think the world should be run meritocratically, they think it is meritocratic.
Our culture has its own mistaken assumption: that the individual is an autonomous human intellect independent from the social environment.
How do companies keep getting you to buy the “latest and greatest” iteration of the product you already own? By testing the boundaries.
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What inspired the Mona Lisa, China’s Terracotta Warriors, and more?
Early reports show that it works, as odd as the approach may seem to some fontologists.