Can experimental findings look too good to be true? Last week I wrote a blog post about some experiments showing a counterintuitive finding regarding how the need to urinate affects […]
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Dakota was sliced in half to generate two extra Senators, and separated north from south because of resentment over the location of the capital
Modernism first moved on May 29, 1913. That’s century-old hyperbole, of course, but if any date achieves day of infamy status for modern art in the 20th century, it’s the […]
The Environmental Defense Fund’s Jamie Workman says that suppressing natural forest fires has resulted in a surplus of trees that deprive humans and animals of water and habitat space. His solution: Get out the chain saw.
I study animals not to understand humans necessarily although that has become my business, of course.
Next month I will establish the world’s first quantum bank. The bank will be headquartered in Rockefeller Plaza, the global center of finance.
Silicon trunks and titanium oxide branches mimic the process of photosynthesis by converting sunlight into hydrogen and oxygen, both of which can then be used to power fuel cells.
Memes are biological entities that perpetuate themselves through history by replicating and by competing in a Darwinian fashion.
Information is what we love, information is what we live by and it’s always been that way.
My fear is that there’s a lot of pressure on public corporations no matter how well intentioned their managers are to produce results.
While in Joshua Tree this weekend for another event, my friend and I swung by Shaktifest, the sister festival of the more popular Bhaktifest, which takes place every September. Both […]
Where we live structures so many of our other life options.
Those students who are in college today, you’re going to find yourself in great demand by employers, organizations and institutions.
Today’s college students are leading what I call the third wave of feminism and it’s a wave that ironically is in many ways personified by Lady Gaga.
If we really want to understand the context of today’s “hooked up” generation it is that short term relationships define them.
When both fresh and salty water sources are considered, the US could grow enough algae for up to 25 billion gallons’ worth of biofuel, enough to cover one month of the country’s yearly fuel needs.
A background in general education enables you to approach what is on the Web and determine that some things are just impossible, pure nonsense.
This question touches on one of the most fundamental issues that is addressed by anybody who thinks about mortality, the end of mortality.
At Khan Academy, we talk about turning it into a global, one-world classroom.
I grew up in Europe during [World War II] and so I have a European attitude on the concept of occupation.
A new paper outlines the problems involved in relocating communities that are losing their land to climate change, and warns that other coastal areas could find themselves in the same position.
If you look at life satisfaction and what makes people satisfied with their lives, most of it has a lot to do with people’s goals.
The Communication Age is here, and it’s time we harness it. Why? Because informing is a one-way conversation between you and your employees, customers, or other stakeholders. And let’s face […]
Some of his biographers have claimed that Michael Faraday died of a broken heart because his idea of an invisible field of influence was rejected as idiocy by his scientific peers.
The most important task we have as any generation does is to raise the next generation, and to pass on the tools for living as sane people to the next generation.
As an employee, you have fundamental liberty and freedom and the ability to process your own ambitions and tensions.
It’s the sort of general purpose crowbar of rational argument where you take your opponent’s premises and deduce something absurd from them.
I remember wondering that day as I was getting ready to go to work if I should pack a toothbrush. A Superior Court judge was set to rule on […]
The presence of a pre-analysis plan can strongly affect the perception and production of statistical results.
We feel entitled to photograph everything, everywhere we go.