The United States still has problems to resolve, but it is on a stronger economic footing than before the crisis.
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HealthTap allows users to pose questions to a network containing thousands of physicians. In addition to providing affordable advice, the service gives doctors a way to grow their online reputation.
If you’re trying to understand what this cult of personality is in North Korea, think about George Orwell’s 1984. This is a case of a country in which the leadership has […]
“[T]he Gothic era,” Bruno Klein writes in the introduction to Gothic: Visual Art of the Middle Ages, 1140-1500, “was a time of seeing, in which much was discussed in words, […]
The project, called RoomE, uses off-the-shelf hardware and custom-designed software to create an environment in which the computer is always watching and responds to both voice and gesture commands.
A San Francisco-based company is planning to ship its super-thin, polymer-based haptic keyboard to manufacturers next year. It offers the sensation, and even the sound, of pressing keys.
Wisdom is particularly present in the humanities, in the teaching of literature, philosophy, history, the arts in general. This is my area of interest. I think the teaching of the […]
We are profoundly influenced by our surroundings in many ways that psychologists are now starting to fully understand.
A team of researchers has figured out a way to use nanotechnology to create images at the highest dots-per-inch resolution possible. Such images could be used for anti-counterfeiting or high-density data encoding.
I wrote an article inHarvard Business Review asking why can’t we build a $300 house? Now, why do you need a $300 house? Just let us look at a simple […]
We’re beginning to find evidence that epigenetics can, in fact, influence the next generation in a way that’s at least partially Lamarckian.
Welcome to the brave new world of cyber warfare.
The bad guy is often the easiest role to play, because they are often the best written. The screenwriter can have fun and indulge while the good guys react most […]
The British cosmologist Stephen Hawking has had his moments of doubt, about both himself and about the future of the human race. Hawking was diagnosed with ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease, […]
Coming to a highway near you, sometime in the next decade: Large trucks, traveling single-file, separated from each other by a mere few meters, controlled only by the driver in front.
Researchers turned to an old Balkan folk remedy to create synthetic surfaces that employ tiny hair-like fibers to trap the insects.
The report, presented at a meeting of the American Chemical Society, follows studies warning of the presence of arsenic and possibly other heavy metals.
So BIG THINK published a sensible little essay by the distinguished public intellectual John Gray. He says don’t think about immortality as something you can achieve through your own efforts. […]
Nuclear engineering student Russell Goff thinks so…and he’s just formed a company to turn spent fuel rods into components to be used in a safe sterilization facility.
One very prominent global warming denier is a Dane named Bjorn Lomborg. He wrote a book about ten years ago that got a great deal of attention and he called […]
The brain imaging technique “everyone’s been waiting for” has arrived, and may speed up brain anatomy research “by 10 to 100 times.”
I’m in the communication business. I help you self-publish who you are, what brought you to an affair and then I give you the communication tools to communicate with other […]
One of the things that we find to be such an important element of many of the rituals and practices that people do as part of their religious traditions is […]
According to a new study published in this week’s Nature, icy particles inside the rings erode into the upper atmosphere and eventually form rain water that falls on parts of the planet.
I can’t think of an area that’s more ripe for the entry of small, disruptive, upstart companies than the psychiatric drug industry.
Scientists are getting closer to understanding how “dark lightning” produces bursts of gamma rays that may come in contact with a plane’s passengers and crew.
Maitri, Petya, Deni and Monika, all in their mid 20s, thought that it was a shame how the granny knitting talent is going to waste and decided that Bulgarian babas ought to take their deserved place in the world as the “knitting gurus” that they are.
1. Dark lightning Thunderstorms need to vent electrical energy, and they can do so in two ways. There is the Ben Franklin way and there is the extreme way: dark […]
Forget about immortalizing yourself. Don’t waste money. Don’t waste time. Don’t waste thought or anxiety on having yourself frozen or your brain frozen. Don’t curtail all your everyday enjoyments […]
According to a new study, the frequency and intensity of clear-air turbulence affecting transatlantic flights will increase significantly by 2050…and yes, we do have climate change to thank for it.