As a follow-up to my earlier post about the mission creep of sexual objectification into places where it just doesn’t belong, here are two more examples. I could write a […]
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Technology can bring us closer and then can also keep us farther apart from each other.
By not using actual embryos, scientists at two Oregon-based institutions sidestepped one of the largest issues surrounding stem cell technology. The breakthrough follows similar success with monkey skin cells in 2007.
Drones aren’t just the instruments of a tyrannical government that wants to kill its own citizens. Drones have an artistic side too.
When you think of a prosthetic limb, the first thing that comes to mind is not beauty. After all, these are products that are made by engineers, not designers.
In tests done on mice, the hydrogel effectively disguised the implant and tricked the body into thinking it wasn’t even there.
In conjunction with the U.S. Geological Survey, NASA and TIME, Google released millions of satellite images that cover a quarter century.
It’s never too late to find a mentor. But the most important thing is is to be realistic and practical.
I hated the idea, the underlying premise of documentary filmmaking, hated it.
The term “Big Data” naturally conjures up images of Big Users, like the government or Google or Costco. It’s easy to see why big enterprises crunch data to learn, for […]
Lower your expectations now. You’ll find yourself much more satisfied by the end.
Last month President Obama launched the BRAIN (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies) Initiative to enable scientists to create a dynamic picture of brain function.
First detected last month by the South Pole IceCube neutrino observatory, the discovery is expected to open the door to an entirely new way of looking at the universe.
“Smart” data disclosures offer “a new tool that helps provide consumers with greater access to the information they need to make informed choices.”
I claim that reading quantum physics through Hegel and vice versa is very productive.
I was going to write about this yesterday, but for many hours I was convinced that it had to be an Onion article, or a social-anthropological experiment designed by an […]
This according to the Norwegian Refugee Council’s Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, which released statistics this week. Thanks to Superstorm Sandy, the US made the top-10 list of countries with the largest numbers of people displaced.
These are SIX quality questions that will kickstart you on the path to achieving your dreams.
Certain forms of nitrogen contribute to a host of health and environmental problems. A new tool helps individuals see how their lifestyle choices fit into the larger sustainability picture.
Love may be there most of the time but that acceptance always takes time.
How can physicists tackle the problem of achieving faster-than-light travel?
Very often the first piece of information we have about a person is their name. It’s often the first thing you learn about someone and we form judgments about people very rapidly.
When you think of social media, the first thing that comes to mind is probably Facebook. That’s no surprise considering that as of April […]
Researchers say that the snow line of the world’s tallest mountain has retreated by nearly 600 feet in the last 50 years. It’s the latest data available in the controversial discussion about the melting of Himalayan glaciers.
Last week two articles were published stating that meditation is not necessarily a component of living a spiritual life, as well as that we generally don’t recognize what real meditation […]
Researchers at Arizona State University want help with gathering and editing information about each of the estimated 30,000 power plants operating worldwide.
There may be fewer of them in the future: Half of the people surveyed for a new report said they would prefer to buy their next car from a machine rather than from a human.
According to the biologist’s view, if we are indeed inherently polygamists, we should have never been as happy as we are today because modernity would seem to enable our real nature to express itself.
Extremely lightweight materials allow developers to program a robot to do almost anything a real bird can do, from dives to back flips.
There is an imbalance between economic importance in global GDP and economic voice in the setting of the global economic agenda. What’s required for the future is a rebalancing of this mismatch.