There’s no consensus yet as to how we should think about a lot of these biotechnologies. It’s what we’re working out.
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There are two things that people want to be able to do to improve their emotional life.
Are U.S. Guns to Blame for Violence in Mexico?
Reverse innovation is not about giving yesterday’s technology; it is not about giving cheap products. It’s about giving value because poor people want value.
We’re constantly editing our day with blinking.
As we keep pushing forward with technology, we’ll be able to take more and more data from the invisible parts of the world and start feeding them into our brain.
Mathematics is a way of formulating an idea, not an idea itself.
You can grow from failure and then you work at it again. You never give up. You keep pushing forward.
One of the most important things you can do is just accept your need for ego validation.
This 80-milligram robot is not only the size of an insect, it also maneuvers like flies with the help of piezoelectric muscles and rotating joints.
The video below shows Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo breaking the sound barrier.
David Arenson takes the position that your life’s mission is to love yourself.
So Peter Sacks, author of the excellent Generation X Goes to College, explains what’s really wrong with the likely MOOCification of higher education. Studies show that learning through MOOCS and […]
To transform mind, body and spirit requires cultivating self-love.
Today’s Medicaid could affect a small number of poor people within two years. Truly finding out how Medicaid might change their lives would take much longer. Moreover, Medicaid would change with time, too – and almost certainly for the better.
“With great power comes great responsibility.”
Predictive analytics enables governments and companies to not only predict the future, but also to influence the future.
Women have come a long way in the arts, but there’s still a long way to go. It’s not so unusual to find the work of contemporary women artists in […]
University of Iowa researchers found that test subjects who played a particular video game for at least 10 hours exhibited a delay in cognitive processing loss by several years.
The feeling of certainty might be our default setting. We spend most of our mental life confirming our opinions, even when those opinions involve complex issues. We believe we understand […]
Or, more precisely, 11¾: The UK’s National Trust has released its second annual list of 50 things for young people to do out in nature.
Have you noticed how women in almost every professional field today are subjected to a hotness rating? Here’s a rating of the sexiness of women in academically elite colleges. Then […]
If, as a new study claims, they can be clustered along specific routes and set for certain times of the day, home deliveries are much more environmentally friendly than individual trips to the store.
Designed with poor communities in mind, the $40 GiraDora works similarly to a salad spinner and allows its user to sit down, avoiding the pain associated with transporting water and washing clothes by hand.
Hedonometer.org, created by a team of University of Vermont mathematicians, provides daily estimates of the global mood based on a random sampling of 50 million tweets.
The Moon has played a significant role in many other historical events, from the fall of Athens to Columbus’s subjugation of the Jamaican natives.
We typically focus on the positive aspects of online social networks – but what about their negative aspects? As we’re seeing in the investigation into the Boston Bombers, online social […]
We know that diversity on corporate boards is good for business and good for the world, so what steps can we take to boost women’s representation on boards worldwide?
Lee Smolin’s argument that there is no scientific method attracted a lot of attention yesterday, including the following rebuttal from reader Dave Nussbaum.
Robel Phillipos is a friend of suspected bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Here is the complaint against him.