A team of medical researchers have created the first fully biodegradable electronic implants. The technology has already been used to help heal wounds before being absorbed by the body.
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A collaboration between doctors and engineers at Virginia Tech has resulted in a new way to treat cancer. A needle just 40 microns thick can deliver chemotherapy and nanodrugs.
Despite the conventional wisdom that higher-ups suffer more pressure because they have more responsibility, new research concludes that its more stressful being on the bottom.
Nutritionists say kale—a vegetable in the Brassica family along with broccoli, cauliflower and cabbage—is full of vitamins and antioxidants that help to prevent cancer.
Soraya Chemaly’s Huffington Post blog thankfully speaks out against 12-yer-old slut memes and Facebook misogyny. This hatefulness in online social life is one reason why it troubles me to read […]
A second Mona Lisa? One made even earlier than the one hanging in the Louvre? It sounds almost too good to be true, and probably is. A Swiss-based organization calling […]
This past July, I had the privilege of being one of the keynote speakers at the Secular Student Alliance’s annual convention in Columbus, Ohio. I’ve been promising video, but until […]
Julia Galef explains how a “simple and easy mental habit” can help you overcome your biases.
What hasn’t been said about Louis C.K.? The New York Times called him a “comedic Quentin Tarantino.” Writing for the Los Angeles Book Review Adam Wilson said he was “television’s […]
The Brooklyn Book Festival took place last weekend, and I still can’t stop thinking about Mary Higgins Clark. She’s a GILF, a grandmother I’d like to “Friend,” and leave inside […]
While there are workers that play solitaire as a distraction from work, some businesses find that employees who are allowed to play certain games at work end up performing better.
Fed up with the banking system, one small business owner decided to start his own bank that pays out interest in his store’s goods.
Uniqlo, a Japanese basics retailer, is looking to expand beyond its 800 stores in Japan and take over a share of the American clothing market.
One reporter took to using a variety of time-saving apps that found her rides and hired personal assistants, but she found something greater at stake than the cost.
Dr. Joachim Kohn has devoted his life to research and now it’s paying off. He’s creating new ways to regrow body parts for veterans injured in war.
I’m surprised to still be writing about blasphemy laws, but it seems the idea just won’t die. At the United Nations this week, the elected leaders of newly democratic Egypt […]
In order to make a cloud computing network more secure, DeTron is introducing its new QDK chip that cuts out any third party between sender and receiver.
New research in Britain is conducting MRI scans on people who have taken MDMA to understand how it acts on the brain and to possibly help those affected by PTSD.
So says an outstanding young conservative public intellectual—Helen Rittelmeyer. It’s true enough that conservatives still do accuse the Democrats—or, more precisely, the liberals—of being moral relativists. Rittelmeyer quotes Paul Ryan […]
There are few trends in the “maker movement” that have the potential to disrupt traditional industries, economies and the wider culture than 3D Printing.
Bloomberg recently asked me a few questions about the evolving role and capacity of the United Nations. With the 67th session of the UN General Assembly underway, I wanted to […]
Paul Ekman studies “the lies that society cares about catching and generally disapproves of.” After all, we lie most often to avoid punishment for breaking a rule.
With a tween in the house I’ve rediscovered the ruthless economy of cool. I’ve remembered that cool is as unforgiving of bad timing as the stock market. One minute the […]
Amazon, known for selling everything from books to car parts, is venturing into the “green” sector with its website Vine.com
Massive financial institutions regularly make the news but one smaller bank has kept under the radar and outperformed even the largest banks.
Despite slumping sales, Burberry is continuing to use modern technology to help sell their high fashion clothing.
Steve Carlotti, CEO of The Cambridge Group, says Apple’s success is due to the company’s ability to uncover latent demand.
Born from the theory of an MIT physicist, Berkeley scientists have come up with a way to build an eternal clock that, they say, would survive the inevitable “heat death” of the universe.
The multicultural joke goes like this: The Lone Ranger and Tonto find themselves in a tough spot, surrounded by hostile Native Americans. “We’d better get out of here,” the Lone […]
NASA has agreed to fund a study into whether or not mining asteroids for precious metals and minerals is economically sound. Surely not at the moment, but it might be in the future…