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A newly-formed group at NASA hopes to build on the success of the Mars Curiosity rover by creating workable plans for future exploration of the planet.
What’s the Big Idea?The increasingly fluid cultural landscape and an overabundance of information call for new ways to gather useful business intelligence. In our hyper-connected world, ideas, data and conversations move […]
An increasing number of Chinese are protesting the poor environmental state of their nation, bolstering the efforts of local green groups and attracting attention from overseas.
What’s the Big Idea? It started with furniture, Kip Tindell remembers. When the Dallas-based entrepreneur set out with his partners to launch a venture in 1978, the idea was to sell […]
For those of you who don’t have an e-reader (a category which, I have to admit, includes myself), or who just prefer something more tangible, here’s some hopefully welcome news: […]
Edward Burger is an award-winning professor of mathematics. His forthcoming book, The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking(coauthored with Michael Starbird) presents practical, lively, and inspiring ways for you to become more successful […]
Last week, Massachusetts congressman Edward Markey submitted the “Wireless Surveillance Act of 2012,” which aims to protect the constitutional rights of cell phone users.
This blog writes about how we perceive risk, and how those perceptions often don’t match the facts. We’re more afraid of some things than we need to be, and less […]
A recent study from the University of Michigan has put to bed old ideas about sexting. The study concludes that sexting can be a normal, healthy aspect of dating.
Author and Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown died yesterday at the lovely age of 90, after having been declared a “living landmark” in New York. In her honor I dusted […]
After raising $8.5 million on Kickstarter, developers of the Ouya console aim to revolutionize the gaming industry with apps and open sourcing.
Every Wednesday, Michio Kaku will be answering reader questions about physics and futuristic science. If you have a question for Dr. Kaku, just post it in the comments section below […]
UPDATE: The three members of Pussy Riot have been found guilty for “hooliganism” on Friday August 17th in one of the closest watched Russian trials since the Stalinist regime and […]
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The technology to instantaneously track people through their computer and cell phone use is already widespread, but now the technology can predict where you’ll be tomorrow or next week.
Websites and Apps often have overly-complicated, legalese-filled Terms of Service that basically force you to click “I agree.” A new company wants to inform you about what exactly you’re agreeing to.
There very well may come a day when the norm of air travel for the general public is to fly at mach 6, making us truly citizens of the world.
The Philosopher’s Beard (hereafter, PB) certainly thinks we should consider it: “Many people would automatically say that such punishments are inhumane. But the very reason for this reaction – that […]
What’s the Big Idea? The days of children turning to their parents to learn how to cook may be coming to an end. Nearly half of Americans believe that in […]
In order to remake the economy to increase the well-being and happiness for all people, there are some new proposed tenets of economic freedom to address.
The United States has been the world’s “guardian of the state system, and of open expression and free trade.” Should the United States cease to be this “guardian,” it would cause a turn of events that would lead to empires.
“On television talk shows, one hears the notion that America is a nation founded on Judeo-Christian values, which presumably means those are the only values worth knowing about, and outsiders should be the ones doing the studying and accommodating.”
According to a report by Goldman Sachs, exports of Iran’s oil have dropped by almost 1.4 million barrels a day.
Behind this phenomenon — which I call internship-snobbery — is a deep anxiety. Wary of an increasingly competitive labor market, students engage in the subconscious act of hypercritical inquiry in an attempt to “size-up” their immediate competition.
According to reports, the new discoveries of natural resources in African countries like Ghana Uganda, Tanzania or Mozambique can either be a blessing or a curse.
Quick: what percentage of wealth in the United States is held by the richest 20 percent of the population? And what percentage of the pie does the poorest 40 percent […]
With the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy topping bestseller lists worldwide, it is now fair to argue that the best and worst novelists in the English language share a last […]
There are many ways to look at Europe other than as a collection of nation-states. Plenty of other imagined communities lurk beneath the surface of the standard political map. Check […]
Upon hearing of the passing last week of journalist and art critic Robert Hughes (shown above), I felt like had lost a beloved teacher. For people who read Hughes’ books […]