Thankfully, several women’s organizations have started a campaign to have advertisers pull their dollars from Facebook until it gets over its misogyny and rape love. There’s a link to some […]
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A luxury apartment building is now under construction in Taiwan, and its design was inspired by the double helix of the DNA molecule.
Daniel Dennett has posted a fantastic set of “seven tools for thinking” in an article in the Guardian that has gone so viral that if you haven’t seen it yet, […]
Athletes, workout enthusiasts, and everyone who has suffered from the embarrassing armpit “situation”, rejoice. Bioengineers at University of California, Davis have developed a new fabric that works like human skin, […]
A true pacifist doesn’t even think there should be police forces. I can’t agree with that.
I think religious people can really help to bring the end of war about very rapidly if they embrace the tenants of their faith.
Does Obama have the right to kill Americans with drones?
Anxiety is the most prevalent emotion in most organizations in the United States today.
Two University of California-Davis graduate students have created a textile that uses microfluidic technology to direct liquid completely away from itself, which could result in extra-sweaty equipment.
I get fed by the human spirit by seeing the kind of art that is created there and the kinds of innovation.
Chris Anderson’s community is aimed at demonetizing a number of industries.
As humans we think linearly, but the world is changing exponentially.
To kids and adults who fear injections, Buzzy looks like a plastic toy. However, when applied to the skin, its vibrating motor and ice pack block the pain of the needle.
With the launch of the mobile platform UberAds, advertisers will be able to use a potential customer’s publicly-available data — including their GPS location — to deliver extremely specific promotions.
That’s the most optimistic date presented by the US military, assuming current research continues. Earlier this month, an Air Force experimental aircraft hit a top speed of Mach 5.1.
We now understand that humans are 90% microbial but only 10% human.
I assert that if you are depressed after learning and being exposed to the cosmic perspective, you started your day with an unjustifiably large ego.
We may soon find out: NASA just gave Systems & Materials Research Corporation a six-month, $125,000 grant to develop a working prototype of a food synthesizer.
A study of participant data from the citizen science project GLOBE at Night shows that on average, people’s observations of artificial night sky brightness were surprisingly accurate compared with satellites.
Robert Kaplan argues that leaders want to promote people who are authentic, and not afraid to take risks.
So what young conservative blogger/essayist would you recommend to challenge those who believe they’re smarter than every conservative in the world? Well, SAM GOLDMAN. Sam’s not the only one by […]
You can’t allow people freedom and then change your mind when the things don’t go your way.
This animation shows the GOES-13 visible imagery during the daylight hours of the 20th.
How does modern technology intersect with ancient spirituality?
To buy Stephen King’s latest novel, Joyland, you’ll have to go to an actual bookstore in an actual place. He’s not e-publishing it. I got my first Kindle 18 months […]
if your school didn’t have a good commencement speech, you can find a lot of them online.
Who is making us more polarized?
Now we’re in a bumpy time, so all kinds of minds matter.
Can experimental findings look too good to be true? Last week I wrote a blog post about some experiments showing a counterintuitive finding regarding how the need to urinate affects […]
Dakota was sliced in half to generate two extra Senators, and separated north from south because of resentment over the location of the capital