The Occupy Movement is unique in seeking more equitable social change without the visible presence of individual leaders. But it’s disdain for hierarchy may ultimately hurt its goals.
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What’s The Big Idea? Scientists have given animals consciousness. Not through complex manipulation of the brain or through genetic manipulation, but by publicly acknowledging the consensus, for the first time […]
The past few years have been tough on economics and economists. In a searing indictment written one year after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, Paul Krugman concluded that the central […]
In some ways, it’s quite practical.
A Russian Internet security firm has discovered what is perhaps the world’s most complicated computer virus ever. Given its complexity, a specific country may be behind the attacks.
Thanks to new discovery tools, pediatricians understand that storing and retrieving memory are two distinct brain functions. The latter develops later on and is unable to access your infant memories.
Coursera, an online education company founded by two Stanford professors, announced today that a dozen major research institutions will join the venture and offer more than 100 free online courses.
Are computer viruses such as Stuxnet and Flame signs that a cyber war is near? These are only a couple of things that lead some to believe that a cyber war has the potential to take the place of a physical war.
The future is a difficult thing to grasp, and not just because we can’t see it. Bringing innovation to life requires imagination, resourcefulness, the sort of limitless creative ambition we today associate mainly with science fiction writers.
By Chris Arkenberg “The intelligence of the city is on the streets.“ – Manu Fernandez Amidst the swirling maelstrom of technological progress so often heralded as the imminent salvation to […]
New artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques are making possible the “regeneration” of politicians such as Ronald Reagan in the form of virtual avatars.
Harvard scientists have created a nanomaterial which regulates itself by adjusting to a host external stimuli like temperature, pH, pressure, and the presence or absence of certain chemicals.
If phantom islands can be discovered as recently as 2012, maybe there are still more of them out there.
Following research on how humans express emotion through facial expressions, MIT scientists have created new computer software that understands human emotion better than we do.
This week, the first orders of the $25 Raspberry Pi computer began shipping. Its designers expect a plethora of new technology as a result—and a new generation of programmers.
Perhaps the world’s most fiercely original aerospace engineer, Rutan has pioneered beautifully designed aircraft that (successfully) go against the grain of conventional wisdom.
Some of the world’s leading engineers and physicists believe we are about to reach the limits of computing power, requiring a fundamental technological shift which we have yet to imagine.
In honor of Earth Day, I wanted to share an article written by my former colleague Ross Robertson for EnlightenNext magazine called “A Brighter Shade of Green: Rebooting Environmentalism for the 21stCentury.” […]
But here’s a radical idea: America needs to create an army of hackers to defend cyberspace. And sooner rather than later.
Competition is driving companies to automate more and more middle-class jobs. Sectors of the economy like legal research and nursing are being “hallowed out” says an MIT economist.
The extreme weather events of this American summer–horrendous wildfires, oppressive heat waves, devastating droughts–are precisely what global warming looks like, say climate scientists.
A group from Singularity U’s Graduate Studies Program successfully flew a drone in Zero G gravity, cutting that cost by a factor of 10, and wants to utilize the drones for STEM education, 3D mapping.
This week, physicists in Europe are expected to announce whether or not they have found the Higgs boson, which is the last undiscovered particle in the Standard Model of particle physics.
Researchers at a British university have turned to Mother Nature to maintain the current rate of progress in the computer industry, specifically a bacterium which contains iron oxide.
As a solution to extreme color-blindness, one cybernetic device allows colors to be experienced as sounds, even the infrared spectrum. Should we get on the cyborg bandwagon?
By optimizing technologies currently on the market, cars will soon be unclogging traffic jams more efficiently than humans can. After the jam is cleared, control of the car is returned to the driver.
What happens in Vegas, no longer stays in Vegas – soon it will be all over the Internet. The 24/7 casino mentality that you only used to find along the Vegas […]
The Chinese can’t innovate, right? All that rote learning drummed into their cerebellums from birth. Cloning, now that’s a Chinese forte. It makes a comforting chestnut for Americans looking just over the horizon at what the […]
Google’s chairman recently warned a British audience that the Web will remain vulnerable to cyber attacks for the next ten years. Education is essential to maintaining a free and open Internet.
According to Jaron Lanier, the right way to think about Alan Turing’s famous “Turing Test” is to understand that it “began in the mind of somebody who was very close to suicide,” and that this test amounted to “a flight from life, but also a defense of life.”