How do you erase something that has gone viral, like a meme? The idea pits our right to privacy against a community that’s hungry to share. So, how do we even begin to police it?
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Is it sloppiness, laziness, or actual deceit that causes television newspersons to rely on phrases like, “Some people say,” “Some people think,” “It’s been said,” and “A lot of people […]
The author of a new book about the habits of successful creative people explains why rebuffing, rebutting, and straight up just saying “no” will fuel your endeavors.
“If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He’s not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people; he’s really needed.”
Contemporary public school education teaches children what amounts to moral relativism. That’s a serious problem, explains philosophy professor Justin McBrayer.
Creativity is more than finding new solutions to abstract problems presented in laboratory settings, and a new study out of Northwestern University is one of the first to measure what qualities correlate with creative achievement in the real world.
Star Trek’s logic illustrates weaknesses in pop psychology’s models of emotions, intuition, logic, and morality. The best current cognitive science on this is well described by Daniel Kahneman. Let’s “Kahnemanize” Kirk and Spock:
“Everything abstract is ultimately part of the concrete. Everything inanimate finally serves the living. That is why every activity dealing in abstraction stands in ultimate service to a living whole.”
“There is no great harm in the theorist who makes up a new theory to fit a new event. But the theorist who starts with a false theory and then sees everything as making it come true is the most dangerous enemy of human reason.”
The Universe is full of surprises. These are the biggest, plus what they mean. “Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.” –Boris Pasternak So it is in […]
Constant touching and emotional warmth are essential to cognitive development, yet our educational and professional environments are skeptical, often for litigious reasons.
The leading research and technology company in the Nordic countries, VTT Technical Research Centre in Finland Ltd, has developed a mass-production method that allows the manufacturing of decorative organic solar panels that can be used on a variety of surfaces.
Though the job market is seeking more Spanish-English bilingual employees, there are far more jobs valuing their skill at less than $35,000 per year than $95,000 per year.
New anthropological research demonstrates that belief in an all-powerful God is not essential to the formation and development of complex society.
Everest is presenting a new challenge to man: how to dispose of human feces on the world’s tallest mountain.
Some consumers are hesitant to adopt electric-powered vehicles out of fear that they will become stranded — something researchers are calling “range anxiety.”
In 1931, Norway annexed part of Greenland. It could have been the start of a very Cold War indeed.
In life, the most important skill is communication. It’s the bottleneck to almost every problem in almost every area of our lives. Effective communication is similar to magic, for it […]
Author and entrepreneur Peter Diamandis explains how Uber’s business plan seeks to change the way the public perceives car ownership.
If patients better understood the health risks associated with certain kinds of medical care, they would likely seek less treatment.
On March 4th at 19:30:15 Universal Time, Venus and Uranus will pass within 0.1° of each other. Here’s how to see it. “Since you cannot do good to all, you […]
The technology draws on the concepts established by theatre companies like Punchdrunk that create an immersive world for an audience to explore while the narrative unfolds around them.
Most people have their doctor’s ear for about 10 minutes during a routine examination. It’s vital to prepare a strategy that will get most if not all of your questions answered.
It’s difficult to make friends out in the “real world.” But some people have managed to forge those special bonds through hook-up apps, like Grindr and Tinder.
Teaching Girls to See Themselves as Leaders, with Tara Sophia Mohr In order to guide young women to achieve their full leadership potential, life coach and author Tara Sophia Mohr […]
Researchers confirm the best location to hunker down during a zombie outbreak: go where people aren’t.
Health apps aren’t regulated by the medical industry and there’s little in the way of standardization, making them unreliable and a risky investment for some consumers.
Your handshake communicates subtle social information about who you are, but it has nothing to do with whether your grip is firm or limp, say researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.
The selfie has become part of our culture of sharing. But should some things, like the ballot, remain private?
Psychologists who were becoming bored with the internet by the late ’90s only had to wait a few more years before the ultimate Petri dish of human thought and behavior emerged.