As autonomous cars slowly move closer to reality, designers from different disciplines are looking at how they will change the rules of the road, as well as the road itself.
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When I was a teen-age consumer of cheap paperbacks about worlds more interesting than this one, I noticed a clear and sharp split between readers who loved SF (spaceships, time […]
The Belgian founder of five clinics says the poor are most acutely affected by pain and as a result are the ideal candidates for “humanitarian acupuncture.”
There’s no doubt that there’s going to be an international market for biotechnologies. And you’re going to have consumers going from one place to another trying to find enhancement technologies. But […]
We all know that infinite growth on a finite planet is impossible. No secret there. We can’t keep growing the way we have been over the last decades or centuries […]
A government initiative that originally focused on hotels in certain districts of Ho Chi Minh City has now been expanded to all hotels in an attempt to combat unsafe sexual practices.
City officials installed four ewes in a half-acre field next to the municipal archives building for a mere $335. They will munch on grass, and fertilize the field, until this fall.
1. Don’t Let Math Get in the Way of Big Ideas “Many of the most successful scientists in the world today are mathematically no more than semiliterate.” E.O. Wilson shares […]
When I was building Cowbird, I was trying to create a kind of sanctuary for storytellers on the Internet. A lot of the Internet, in recent years, has become like […]
Religion was actually the most interesting chapter of the book that I wrote. And that was because I started out with a premise that as we can live longer and […]
Should water be treated as a commodity today when we are faced with many shortages? The flipside of the question is that we are now looking at even the United […]
Time was when being an entrepreneur or an achiever, was something that was frowned upon by “the snobs at the top and those who where envious at the bottom,” says Jeffrey […]
collection covers US involvements in, and diplomatic or intelligence reporting on, every country on earth. It is the single most significant body of geopolitical material ever published.
You know how sometimes when you put your foot in your mouth and say something really stupid, you try to recover but only stammer out something even dumber and […]
We do at this point in time need a new Einstein. The one thing that Einstein did, which is so powerful and important in the history of physics is with […]
More Africans are moving to large cities, and some are bringing their livestock with them, along with an increased risk of disease. Rather than banning the animals entirely, Kenyan officials came up with a different solution.
A UN agency reports that outbound travel spending jumped a whopping 40 percent last year, putting the Chinese far ahead of both Germans and Americans.
The hedgehog probes deeply and narrowly; the fox skims lightly and broadly.
With our increasingly global 21st century making the traditional college quadrangle look a little parochial, the Minerva vision is an intriguing development.
In America, brain games have become a multi-million dollar industry that has infiltrated schools and nursing homes, but a new meta-study of their effects throws big assumptions into question.
Recent advances in brain-computer interfaces, which may facilitate brain-brain communication, raise the specter of comic book heroes who effortlessly “talk” to each other without talking at all.
Scientists have identified a set of stem cells capable of generating new neurons in the brain which regulate appetite, overturning the idea that one’s desire for food was fixed by genetics for a lifetime.
While apologizing may not always make us feel rosy and sure of ourselves, there are substantial societal benefits achieved through apology which help explain the importance of the behavior.
Researchers at Harvard Medical School, Boston, have successfully connected the minds of humans and rats such that the movement of the rats’ tails can be controlled by human thought.
I just returned from spending a weekend with my friend Peter Ragnar at his farm in Kentucky. Peter is a modern-day Shaman, Taoist wizard, natural life scientist, and “self-master” par […]
Did you see that photo of sharks allegedly swimming in a mall in Kuwait? Or the video of the eagle grabbing a baby in Montreal? Both must have been shared […]
Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich have discovered that individuals’ exhalations are as unique as their fingerprints, opening new avenues for medical diagnoses.
There were two really important elements that I discovered when I was looking at women’s history and the history of the women’s movement in the US. The first thing that […]
I don’t think of myself as a taste maker. I think of myself more as a bad taste maker. I’m very pro-bad taste. Bad taste is very important. It’s like […]