Observing the Roman Empire crumble from North Africa in the fifth century, St Augustine of Hippo decided that while waging war against fellow Christians was sinful, throwing up arms against […]
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A publishing CEO urged his industry peers to bring literary authors and software developers together to create something better than ebooks, which he said were “a boring format that just comes straight out of normal books.”
Writer Mathew Ingram attempts to dissect a controversial New York Times blog post about the best ways to communicate with others outside of face-to-face conversations.
The days leading up to the start of the papal election process offer yet another demonstration of technology’s power in bringing millions of people together.
As the threat of a cyber war with the Chinese becomes more imminent, it’s fascinating to consider how much the early stage of this cyber war actually resembles the Cold War […]
By feeding test subjects’ likes into a set of algorithms, Cambridge University researchers were able to deduce a surprisingly accurate amount of information about them. Privacy advocates say this should “ring alarm bells” for users.
Next month, a federal court will hear the case of one family whose request was granted, then overturned on the grounds that Germany’s anti-homeschooling policy “does not constitute persecution.”
The new version, which takes effect today, bans the import and sale of cosmetics containing animal-tested ingredients. Some critics say that certain tests require animals as subjects to ensure safety.
We are not the safe small blue dot we like to think we are, but rather, we are more like a target in a “cosmic shooting gallery.”
Are smokers, non-exercisers, non-savers and other such undisciplined people acting irrationally? The conventional wisdom of our decade says yes, of course, they are. That’s why we need policies that will […]
Update: A couple hours ago, a judge struck down the New York City ban on large-sized sodas as arbitrary and capricious, in part because the ban did not also include […]
It’s been a few months since I wrote an op-ed in The New York Times to propose a wealth tax as a way to stem the harmful rise of inequality in […]
Autism is a complex phenomenon with an extremely broad spectrum of effects that vary in every individual, a new interactive simulator aims to provide only a hint at what it is like […]
By providing an accurate roadmap for anyone from CEO to sales superstar to auto mechanic who wishes to increase their personal career relevancy in a world of transformative change, you now have a new tool you can use to make career and education decisions with confidence.
“I’m a storyteller at heart,” Star Wars mastermind George Lucas says at the beginning of his proposal for a new museum to be built on the grounds of San Francisco’s […]
The decades-old social welfare model built for the country’s elderly is showing its limitations as a growing number choose to relocate to nursing homes in Eastern European countries.
By discovering the molecular switch that helps the brain transition from adolescence to adulthood, a team of Yale researchers have reversed the process, recreating a youthful brain.
The Obama administration is considering funding what could amount to the biggest science project of all time. Called the Brain Activity Map, it would change the scale at which the brain is understood.
At one of the world’s biggest religious festivals, a charity founded in 1946 brings separated people together. Their record is much better than India’s at large.
Amra Babic, a trained economist, is challenging assumptions of Islam both in her native country and across a continent that struggles with accommodating diverse expressions of faith.
In his new book, How to Create a Mind, engineer and futurist Ray Kurzweil puts forth a theory of the brain that is meant to demonstrate how engineers could build a computer that would mimic the mind.
When Yahoo recently terminated its telecommuting policy, forcing employees to return to the office rather than work from home, it likely stymied the creative capacities of its work force.
Far from receiving information about the world as it is, our biology—and psychology—filter what we perceive to be reality to a very high degree. Mindfulness can help us notice our surroundings.
Do you live on your own edge? Living on the edge is exactly what inspired, highly motivated people aspire to always do. Last December, I went to the grand finale […]
A new wireless authentication system called BodyCom could change the way locked doors are opened and the way firearms are activated by using the human body as a password.
A team of Swedish scientists have created a nanoparticle capable of delivering non-toxic cancer-treatment drugs directly to tumors in the body which are biodegradable and traceable.
While diets high in saturated fats are known to increase cholesterol levels, exactly how cholesterol influences heart disease remains to be fully understood, say scientists.
Deborah Persaud of Johns Hopkins University has announced to the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections that a patient under her care has been cured of HIV infection.
There has been much chatter recently about the new found potential of “big data”. Google NGram for example, tracks usage of words in books and Google Flu Trends does what it says on the […]
While scientists are far from being able to regenerate humans limbs, they are gaining a better understanding of how this complex process takes place in a host of different species.