Charles Darwin and Richard Dawkins may never have envisioned the current era of Big Data, but their shared fundamental principle – “all life evolves by the differential survival of replicating entities” – […]
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Tyrants are undone and liberty is won with a good question. We need to build this capacity in ourselves and the people around us.
In recent years, text messaging has become a major part of how we communicate. Recent surveys find that 60% of people worldwide are active texters, with over 193,000 text messages […]
The text messaging service, which tracks animal health and market prices, is just one of many apps that are helping to transform life in sub-Saharan Africa, the world’s fastest-growing mobile market.
On Monday voice-recognition tech company Nuance announced its Voice Ads platform, which will enable companies to create ads that can have conversations with customers.
A significant technology skills gap has occurred in America over the last decade or so, “causing people to not understand where the opportunities are within technology,” says Michael Kirven, who founded […]
Recently I spoke to a conference of leading business school deans about the prospects of the MBA degree. My speech was entitled The Future has Come and Gone and You’ve […]
Twelve years after the passage of a law that treats possession of small amounts as a misdemeanor, doctors from opposing sides evaluate the results on Portuguese society.
Presumably rain, sleet, etc. are non-entities: If all goes well, Auvergne residents could begin receiving mail from their friendly neighborhood Parrot quadricopter as soon as next month.
It’s only got 125 residents, and benefits from a lot of financial inflow, but the tiny hamlet of Feldheim is demonstrating how its success could work for rural communities worldwide.
China may not be the freest society in the world, but for some time now it’s been catching up to — and outpacing — the US in several facets of research and development.
Although it took place early last month, the winning party is preparing to change the balance of power in the materials export industry, affecting production of electronics worldwide.
Not as firm as you probably think they are, according to mounting evidence that describes the ways in which our ethical principles are subject to some rather whimsical alternations.
The parameters of marriage are changing, not just in front of the Supreme Court, but in the very fabric of our society. Has love and affection replaced having children as the goal of marriage?
The French are the least happy people in Europe, according to a new survey of French nationals living in France and abroad. The author of the new research blames French culture itself.
Some biologists think humans may be more commonly infected with mind-altering parasites than is typically believed by psychologists, who examine mental defects as purely behavioral phenomena.
The theory that natural landscapes recharge minds that have been stretched thin by harsh urban environments is not new, but only recently has the theory become testable.
Last week, Harry Beck finally got his blue plaque. The house where the designer of the iconic London Tube map spent his first years is now marked by a memorial […]
Back in the bad old days that are always threatening to repeat on us, it was alleged that rape victims were “asking for it.” We were supposed to know that […]
Recent studies suggest that Americans might be the worst research subjects on the planet. As one writer put it recently, “researchers had been doing the equivalent of studying penguins while believing that they were learning insights applicable to all birds.”
A team of British researchers will soon begin testing an electrical device which, by attaching to a nerve that controls the body’s appetite for food, could provide an alternative to weight-loss surgery.
By building circuits out of DNA, researchers at Stanford have found a way to program the body’s cells with logic functions, similar to how computer chips work on larger scales.
Doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital have found that the benefits of gastric bypass surgery, in which the stomach of a patient is shrunk, can be passed on without surgery.
To help feed the world’s malnourished, a team of students at McGill University, Montreal, are putting forth a plan meant to facilitate the production of edible insects on an industrial scale.
Once infamous for how they objectified the female body, marketing departments at beer and spirit producers have begun selling their products to women as weight-loss drinks.
Science lives in a world of data and so now that we have real evidence we must do something real about it.
NewSpace is no stranger to challenge, whether above the clouds or in legislation. One particularly ornery obstacle is the US International Traffic and Arms Regulation, commonly known as ITAR. (Please […]
Think of it as a variation on the scratch-and-sniff: Designers at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology have created a “smelling screen” that’s able to emit scents at pixel level.
Kate Losse reviewed Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In unfavorably in Dissent. For this reason, her publicist tweeted that Losse is going to “a special place in hell,” reserved for women who […]
Thinking big involves taking risks, and taking risks requires a certain openness to failure. I believe it is an imperative to take such risks today because our personal welfare is […]