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The image above depicts the body of an albatross that was found on Midway Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.
We’re hardwired to be free, but we’re also hardwired to be relational beings. Man of Steel is nothing if not a celebration of fathers. Maybe the most repulsive feature of […]
We have a responsibility to defend the America that we inherited and to make sure that people calling themselves patriots don’t smash it down.
There were three great scientific horse races in the last century. The first two, the race to the moon and the race to split the atom have been widely reported. […]
“Power causes you to focus on rewards and take risks to achieve those gains,” Dr. Andy Yap of MIT’s Sloan School of Management.
In order to be successful, you need to do more than just design a good product. You need to be persuasive.
Draw two dots above a straight line, place them in a circle, and even children a few years old will spot the semblance with a human countenance. Whether it’s the features […]
Last Sunday, June 23rd, I gave a lecture at the Sanderson Museum in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, titled “Art Made Personal: Chris Sanderson and The Wyeth Family.” Below is a summary […]
Scientists are warning that the area of oxygen-deprived water created as a result of agricultural runoff could grow to as much as 8,561 square miles this year, an area about the size of New Jersey.
The Suomi NPP satellite has created the highest-resolution map of the world’s vegetation to date. Not surprisingly, there’s more greenery, thanks to carbon emissions.
It’s the first arrangement of its kind to be discovered in the hunt for exoplanets that could support life. These planets are among several that orbit Gliese 667C, one star in a trinary star system.
One is reminded of America’s second-most detestable federal outfit: the Transportation Security Administration.
In the video below, Justin Solonynka, a teacher at the Abington Friends School in Jenkintown, PA, uses a game he bought for his two-year-old daughter to teach his 7th grade class about permutations and combinations.
What if Conservative ideology is more Kafka than Orwell? Are the people who say they fear an imminent dystopia actually just really annoyed?
The true culprit in the residual gender wage gap is wage secrecy.
A plastic pollution survey of the Great Lakes revealed that three of the five contain dangerously high concentrations of “perfectly spherical plastic balls” of the type found in face and body scrubs.
This week Harvard University unveiled a database of 2.3 million carbon-based materials, including over 35,000 out of which some could eventually match silicon’s energy conversion ability.
This week the New York Times published a story about Chinese investors snapping up property in the United States. Prices are rising here, but I don’t think these purchases are […]
The U.S. is in a space race with China, it just doesn’t know it yet. How many Chinese taikonauts have to return from outer space before we recognize this? Ever since […]
“DOMA’s principal effect is to identify and make unequal a subset of state-sanctioned marriages,” wrote Justice Anthony M. Kennedy in today’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling striking down the Federal Defense of Marriage Act.
It’s been a bad few weeks for RadioPhobia, the powerful fear of radiation that far exceeds the actual risk. From three different places come new examples of this version […]
In the early 1850s, Daniel McCallum, the General Superintendent of the New York and Erie Railroad, had a problem. At the time, the New York and Erie Railway was the […]
The group displays photos of inappropriate behavior in the hope that doing so will end a longstanding tradition of exploiting freshmen that has led to injuries and deaths.
Nippon Television Network is working with other organizations to provide elder-care monitoring services that will, for example, alert relatives if a family member doesn’t change their channel for an extended period of time.
A new study indicates an uptick in the number of people who have paid to access certain news sites. However, many still prefer to get their news for free, with social media growing in popularity as a source.
What an odd and outdated national value the British have.
The image above is an artist’s impression of what it might look like to live on the exoplanet Gliese 667Cd, one of three super-Earths discovered in the habitable zone of the nearby star Gliese 667C.
Two Hollywood studios have shortened the window between theatrical and home entertainment distribution to as little as three weeks, giving customers the option of seeing movies at home while they’re still playing broadly in theatres.
While the solution to sustainable population growth is elusive, there are few illustrations that present this global challenge in such clear terms as this video.