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The closest thing the US has to a “Yemen Czar” is John Brennan, President Obama’s Deputy National Security Adviser, and so when he speaks on Yemen – as he did […]
War is hell. The culture war is no exception—and the funny bone is usually the first casualty. The recent talk about abortion and contraception got me thinking, what would the […]
Is there tension between the conservative nature of higher education and the free-wheeling world of creating new businesses? Does success in one area come at the expense of the other?
Have a business? Want to find more customers? Pitching your business on Facebook can be awkward so here are some ways to get your idea out without pestering potential clients.
My post from last week, “The Abraham Test“, provoked a vigorous discussion (225 comments and counting as of this writing) about the morality of committing violence in God’s name. Since […]
Regular Readers If you are a regular reader here, you might be interested in reading a guest essay I wrote in Forbes. It’s about how marketers are being challenged by […]
Ever wondered how you were supposed to keep up with the never-ending stream of content and data in your life? Not to worry, the elves of the Internet are busy […]
Short of inventing a time machine and travelling back to the 16th century, we’ll most likely never know what Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa looked like when it was first […]
“The space program, including ostensible civil projects, supports China’s growing ability to deny or degrade the space assets of potential adversaries and enhances China’s conventional military capabilities.”
Can we be “post-racial” through music? Should we even want to?
The latest Quinnipiac poll has Rick Santorum ahead of Mitt Romney 35-26 among Republicans and voters who lean Republican. National polls are not by themselves be good indicators of who […]
Baratunde Thurston, author of How to Be Black, unveils his ambitious, three step plan for “the future of blackness.”
Peggielene Bartels was working as a secretary at Ghana’s Embassy in Washington D.C. when she got a phone call informing her that she had been crowned king of Otuam, a […]
Later this year, Google will begin selling eyeglasses that work like transparent computer monitors, displaying all the information accessible on your smartphone.
3-D printers will revolutionize manufacturing and cloud-based computing power will solve complex problems. Combined, these technologies will create a future of abundance.
New research tells a story that my younger self would have appreciated because it illustrates how difficult it is for women to be attached to the labor force when their […]
Stanford medical scientists have created a small wireless computer chip powered by magnetic currents that can navigate the body’s veins while monitoring health and releasing drugs.
There was a German Jewish philosopher named Franz Rosenzweig who died of ALS at the age of 43 in 1929. The words on the very last page of his great […]
At this point, I’m not sure if we are watching the Republican presidential debates to see who might win the nomination or if we are watching them to see who […]
I think, there is little doubt that tablet devices have drastically changed the way a growing part of the population is consuming content. My iPad has quickly become my main […]
Researchers have isolated a single phosphorus atom and placed it atop a silicon crystal with more precision than ever before. We are one step closer to achieving a quantum computer.
The European physics lab OPERA, which claimed to have tracked neutrinos traveling faster than the speed of light, has recanted. It says a bad GPS connection produced erroneous results.
Get ready for a brave new world where supercomputing mobile devices are so ubiquitous that they lead to entirely new business models in industries ranging from healthcare to education. Cisco […]
Students in China are out performing countries who spend far more education.
When popular culture appropriates complex scientific theories, such as quantum mechanics, Joe Schmoe opines all over the Internet. Is it worth bringing science to the mainstream?
While walking in Fairmount Park in 1872 with his minister father, 12-year-old Henry Ossawa Tanner saw a man painting and became curious about art. His family fed that curiosity, which […]
Thanks to federal restrictions that hamstring research,” a new paper argues, “opportunities to further study marijuana’s risks and benefits and develop new pharmacotherapies are squandered.”
Will longer working lives – like longer working hours – mean fewer people being employed? We’re almost certain to find out, as Malthus rears his well-coiffed head again.
Ziggy Marley tells Big Think that smoking marijuana is “a very spiritual, sacramental, private thing.” But hemp, he says, can save the planet.