What do you get when you add the total matter of the universe to the total energy of the universe? Zero. “So it takes no energy to create a universe,” Dr. Kaku points out. “A universe is a free lunch.”
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Despite the launch of Google Fiber in Kansas City, many ISPs don’t have enough incentives to provide the technology to the average subscriber. However, some communities are working to get it.
So Paul LeBlanc, president of Southern New Hampshire University, graciously and thoughtfully responded in the thread to my post complaining about his disruptive understanding of education that reduced to the “traditional” college […]
“The nest of wickedness is ablaze,” reads the caption in a newly released video from North Korea’s official website, Uriminzokkiri. The video, which features a chilling misappropriation of “We Are the […]
What was first, the chicken or the map? That question is perhaps as unanswerable as the one featuring hen vs. egg [1]. Not that it matters. Stare long enough at […]
“Humbug,” harrumphed Minimalist/Conceptual artist Carl Andre recently in response to a question about Conceptualism in art today. “I think it is humbug myself,” Andre announced, channeling his inner Ebeneezer. “That […]
A study shows that explicit content is disturbingly easy for young people to access via the site’s Recommended Videos panel.
Did you see Life of Pi or Cloud Atlas? How about Prometheus or Avatar? Have you picked up a bestseller by Deepak Chopra or Eckhart Tolle? Do you ever leaf […]
The 21st century requires a new kind of learner—not someone who can simply churn out answers by rote, but a student who can think expansively and solve problems resourcefully.
At least 20 cities have canceled festivities in the wake of last month’s deadly nightclub fire, but most others are expected to continue with the celebrations despite the country’s ongoing self-reflection about the tragedy.
The state-owned railway company overrode the wishes of its all-male engine drivers’ union in order to grow the numbers.
“The Super Bowl shows what million-dollar players and coaches are truly made of when the stakes matter most,” says leadership coach Stephen Miles, founder and CEO of The Miles Group. “The Ravens-49ers […]
Nothing is a physical concept, because it’s the absence of something. “What we’ve learned over the last hundred years,” Lawrence Krauss says, “is that nothing is much more complicated than we would’ve imagined otherwise.”
The majority of academic economists actually agree on plenty of topics of huge importance to the public and private sectors.
Americans have always disagreed, about a lot. Somehow though, we’ve managed to get along with each other while we do. Why, then, has disagreeing become so nasty, so fierce, […]
Activist groups and the government are working to help rectify a housing shortage caused by jumps in both unemployment and property costs.
The law, which introduced severe restrictions, went into effect almost two years after a school shooting left 16 primary school students dead.
Recall Anthony Comstock (1844-1915), America’s “archprude” and upholder of Victorian morality. Comstock devoted his life to denouncing art he deemed “obscene, lewd or indecent.” In response to a New York […]
A bionic man named Rex, currently on display at London’s Science Museum, is showing how close technology has gotten to imitating natural human systems and even improving on them.
Social scientists have recognized that income over a certain threshold fails to increase the amount of the happiness the earner experiences, but spending on others may return more happiness.
Chronically nice people run the risk of burning themselves out and isolating the group of people they seek to help in the first place. Learning to say “no” is an important skill, say sociologists.
We often find ourselves working against our own best wishes, but why? It’s not merely a matter of procrastination and willpower, say psychologists, but of taking our emotional temperature.
A team of Oxford University philosophers have put forward a case for the use of love drugs in cases where boosting affection would benefit child rearing or maintaining long-term relationships.
The outcome of a ménage à trois involving desperation, selfishness, and moral consideration, apology came into the world already tainted by its origin. Out of these weak beginnings, we could […]
There’s always something electric in the atmosphere when someone dares to assert spiritual convictions in a decidedly secular context. It’s almost like, “I can’t believe s/he had the courage to […]
If you use your laptop or tablet computer late at night, the brightness of the screen could be disrupting your body’s release of melatonin, a key hormone in the body’s clock, or circadian system.
Almost a year ago I posted a blog post titled ‘A Yale Professor’s One Man Rampage Against PloS, the Internet and a Belgian Research Group‘, covering the case of a […]
A pair of anthropologists have recently argued that cultures in which women take more than one husband have been more common in human history than previously thought.
New research confirms previous studies that linked childhood stress with higher levels of cardiovascular disease. Now researchers will look for the underlying biological mechanism.
Illumina, the world’s leading manufacturer of DNA sequencing machines, is pushing to market new non-invasive tests for mothers at high-risk of passing genetic mutations on to their children.