Could monitoring the activity of a brain region called the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) help law enforcement officials predict which violent criminals are likely to re-offend? A recent study out […]
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Conservative John Fund, writing in the National Review,
Researchers were able to uniquely identify 95 percent of individuals simply by analyzing four times and locations when cell phones were in use. They recommend their results be used to influence future policies on privacy and technology.
Where were you when you first learned that there are plastic landfills the size of continents floating in our oceans? What should have been a wake-up call hasn’t slowed the […]
Researchers found that simply looking at and holding a bottle of pain medication “nonconsciously decrease[d] pain sensitivity” in test subjects.
In a survey conducted by AT&T, more adults than teens admitted to texting while driving. Interestingly, 60 percent of those said they only started doing so in the last three years, and 98 percent of them knew it was unsafe.
The story of discovery goes something like this: the inventor investigates what he knows (the properties of stapholycocci) and uncovers something else (penicillin), which changes the world. The scientific method […]
If so, the Gates Foundation wants to hear from you: They have launched a competition to find prophylactic designs that will encourage more people to use them, particularly in the developing world.
How much of women’s problems are problems because women are not leaning in, and how much of the responsibility is up to the employer to create the environment that women need or men need to succeed at work?
With Easter coming this Sunday and the minting of a new pope still fresh in people’s minds, considerations and reconsiderations of Christianity seem natural and unavoidable. The Renaissance art of […]
The future is coming and it’s coming at a fast and furious pace. How can brands keep up with this ever-accelerating velocity of disruption? A recent article in Fast Company explores […]
As a spectator you generate a fair amount of creativity in reconstructing an image in your head in a way that is unique for you and is slightly different for me.
We are socialized to blame ourselves when things go wrong in love because that is what is available to refashion when you are in a psychiatrist’s office.
This week my son’s school was canceled for the day, in the usual hyperventilating overreaction to weather. At first the school proposed to open two hours late, and I was […]
In Mexico City, one of the world’s most polluted cities, construction is underway on a tower shielded with a tile screen that breaks down smog into less dangerous components.
It seems like everywhere you look on the Internet these days, you’ll see the ubiquitous hashtag. The hashtag was the “Word of the Year” in 2012, and for good reason. What […]
Originally designed for the elderly and disabled, the Hitachi Robot for Personal Intelligent Transport System negotiates itself around pedestrians and over uneven terrain using a variety of sensors and guidance systems.
With Easter and Passover on the minds of so many millions of Christians and Jews this weekend, so are the deeper themes of renewal, promise, and liberation that these religious […]
First things first – I’m not a doctor, but the surprise new rules issued by the GMC (the British regulator for doctors) still worry me. Not just because I might perhaps one day […]
The California city may be the first in the nation to replace residential electric meters with smart meters that provide outdoor wi-fi through a separate channel.
A Florida-based startup has created a bracelet-type device that works with RFID tags at hand washing stations to ensure that its wearer is being thorough. It’s currently targeted at the healthcare industry, where infections can be very expensive.
Created by researchers at the University of Texas-Austin, the cloak only works in the microwave spectrum but could theoretically be used to hide objects in visible light.
In the 1960’s Stanley Milgram introduced the lost letter technique which had a notable impact on the field of social psychology (unfortunately the original paper is still paywalled even though […]
Prison does things to a man, even if he gets to go home at the end of a long day of guarding the inmates. Scotland’s HM Prison Barlinnie features the […]
If you went on Facebook yesterday, it may have appeared that everyone’s profile had suddenly gotten hacked. Your timeline was probably awash in a sea of red equal signs or […]
In a radio interview last week, controversial New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg all but conceded that unmanned NYPD spy drones would one day be flying overhead in Manhattan. It’s a “scary” concept, […]
Experts say that climate change is affecting the wine industry both in terms of budding grape growing locations — like Denmark — and the quality of wines produced in established locations.
1. The Bill Gates Condom The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will award a $100,000 grant to the person who invents a next-generation condom that “significantly preserves or enhances pleasure, in […]
A report out from the EPA this week says that only one in five rivers and streams are in good condition, and just over half are in poor condition.
A small annoyance that’s more consequential than it sounds: In the same-sex marriage debate, heterosexual, male-female couples are regularly described by judges, pundits, and advocates alike as “opposite sex” couples. […]