Known as prospective memory, scientific research has shed new light on two separate brain processes that prompt the brain to tell you to remember certain things.
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While the raw computational power of the brain declines with age, new studies have found that intelligence increases with maturity.
An American firm has created the world’s first brain implant that delivers treatment while recording brain activity as a way of anticipating future health changes.
So we live in a time when we look for wisdom from mega-entrepreneurs. I admit that they’re usually really smart and fascinating–not to say full of contradictions. Peter Thiel, for […]
Individuals are drawn to either good or bad behavior depending on how they recall their past actions.
If you can’t make it in The Land of the Free, you’re defective—that’s the default assumption, the core belief that allows Americans who aren’t hurting, who aren’t unhappy with their lot, to cling to quaint mid-twentieth-century Walt Disney notions about the inherent wonderfulness of American life.
Homosexual sociologists have put forth several theories as to why the gay community idealizes the male physique, each more politically incorrect than the last.
A new idea out of Durham, North Carolina, may make locally grown urban produce more commercially viable than ever before.
A recent string of high-profile legal events suggest that government institutions are beginning to bend to public opinion.
World meat demand is at an all time high, despite its lack of nutritional benefits given alternatives like beans, nuts, quinoa, and tofu.
Biologists at Princeton University have used 3-D printing technology to create a bionic ear capable of detecting frequencies one million times higher than the normal range of hearing.
Guest post by Kevin Flora. What does it mean to “recruit” anyway? Multiple definitions exist for the word “recruit,” but educational institutions tend to pigeon-hole themselves into a single definition […]
Literally: An eight-foot sculpture outside the building records complaints, which are then played over speakers installed in the offices of the citizens’ affairs bureau. Useful suggestions are stored, while the rest become mood music.
A new study states that men who work in female-dominated professions perform 25 percent more chores than those who work in male-dominated professions.
One of the many paradoxes of time is that it doesn’t flow by smoothly. Although we agree that time is objective—we don’t set our clocks arbitrarily after all—it feels as […]
In response to a 2010 TED talk by gaming researcher Jane McGonigal, an organization has emerged that will develop in-game plug-ins giving players ways they can assist with real-world disaster relief.
The word entrepreneur is tossed around a lot today, but it’s meaning changes depending on the context. The concept was first introduced in 1723 by French economist Richard Cantillon but […]
This week the International Astronomical Union, long responsible for giving planets sexy names like “HD 189733b,” surprised many by opening the process to the general public. Not surprisingly, there are some rules involved. (Sit down, Trekkies.)
A smartphone uses up a lot more energy than most people think. Multiply that by a billion or more, and include all the other objects that use the Internet. A new paper asks: Where is all that energy coming from?
Originally posted at www.toddnorton.me Guest post by Todd Norton A small victory on the second day of school this year still has me smiling. It was something very simple, a […]
Once you get past all of the screaming teenagers in this video, you will actually hear some inspiring words from Ashton Kutcher. That’s right.
There are over 200 channel choices in the average home. That’s an age of choice. That’s pretty exciting.
Embrace change. Embrace what that future is. Don’t fear it because that’s your biggest upside.
The key fundamental aspect of being a good business leader is that you want to initiate.
This South African case raises many questions. An HIV-positive Aids counsellor, who was convicted of attempted murder for having unprotected sex with his unsuspecting girlfriend, has lost his appeal... (SAPA) […]
The Magellanic Stream, which extends almost halfway around the Milky Way, is only detectable at radio wavelengths, and made visible in the wonderful composite image above.
Scientists at Duke University stimulated sensory neurons in a way that eventually allowed six rats to locate light signals that are invisible to the (unmodified) naked eye.
Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 was not a giant comet, but if you did the math – which astronomers did at the time – you would know just what a catastrophic impact it would have.
Don’t worry that you haven’t read every last thing because A) nobody else has and B) most of it you don’t need anyway.
I try and learn also from other people’s mistakes by just watching and talking to them.