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John Hunter uses Sun Tzu’s The Art of War to help students develop habits of mind that include collaboration and peaceful conflict resolution.
Researchers believe this cave painting may turn out to be over 40,000 years old, old enough to outdate modern humans.
If you’re an empathetic or a kind-hearted person, how do you protect yourself?
Currently, the technology known as “Active Denial” only operates from a large truck, but a report indicates that Raytheon is developing a version that police officers can use to disperse crowds.
There’s a lot of hype that goes into the disruptive innovations and then there’s a froth and foam that’s associated with that.
Why don’t we hesitate getting into a car and driving 60 miles an hour with cars coming towards us at 60 miles an hour in the opposite lane?
So libertarians are rightly outraged by the Obama administration’s new Puritanical speech code. But others have either praised or blamed that same administration for its “aggressive libertarianism” when it comes to sexual […]
As a follow-up to my earlier post about the mission creep of sexual objectification into places where it just doesn’t belong, here are two more examples. I could write a […]
Technology can bring us closer and then can also keep us farther apart from each other.
By not using actual embryos, scientists at two Oregon-based institutions sidestepped one of the largest issues surrounding stem cell technology. The breakthrough follows similar success with monkey skin cells in 2007.
Drones aren’t just the instruments of a tyrannical government that wants to kill its own citizens. Drones have an artistic side too.
When you think of a prosthetic limb, the first thing that comes to mind is not beauty. After all, these are products that are made by engineers, not designers.
In tests done on mice, the hydrogel effectively disguised the implant and tricked the body into thinking it wasn’t even there.
In conjunction with the U.S. Geological Survey, NASA and TIME, Google released millions of satellite images that cover a quarter century.
It’s never too late to find a mentor. But the most important thing is is to be realistic and practical.
I hated the idea, the underlying premise of documentary filmmaking, hated it.
The term “Big Data” naturally conjures up images of Big Users, like the government or Google or Costco. It’s easy to see why big enterprises crunch data to learn, for […]
Lower your expectations now. You’ll find yourself much more satisfied by the end.
Last month President Obama launched the BRAIN (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies) Initiative to enable scientists to create a dynamic picture of brain function.
First detected last month by the South Pole IceCube neutrino observatory, the discovery is expected to open the door to an entirely new way of looking at the universe.
“Smart” data disclosures offer “a new tool that helps provide consumers with greater access to the information they need to make informed choices.”
I claim that reading quantum physics through Hegel and vice versa is very productive.
I was going to write about this yesterday, but for many hours I was convinced that it had to be an Onion article, or a social-anthropological experiment designed by an […]
This according to the Norwegian Refugee Council’s Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, which released statistics this week. Thanks to Superstorm Sandy, the US made the top-10 list of countries with the largest numbers of people displaced.
These are SIX quality questions that will kickstart you on the path to achieving your dreams.
Certain forms of nitrogen contribute to a host of health and environmental problems. A new tool helps individuals see how their lifestyle choices fit into the larger sustainability picture.
Love may be there most of the time but that acceptance always takes time.
How can physicists tackle the problem of achieving faster-than-light travel?
Very often the first piece of information we have about a person is their name. It’s often the first thing you learn about someone and we form judgments about people very rapidly.