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Take a moment to rub the top of your skull. With a little motivation — and the aid of a drill or pick — one could easily unlock the squelchy pink organ encased within.
The government collecting telephone and email records of every citizen is just plain wrong.
Dr. Sanjay Gupta, the neurosurgeon and chief medical correspondent at CNN, has changed his mind about medical marijuana.
I wanted to draw attention to how philosophers actually go about their business and get them thinking more self-consciously about the tools they use and how they use them.
Biology gives us the general moral sense and the general ability to develop a moral system but the specific rules that we apply in our society are not necessarily given by biology.
The same company that installed bins with digital ad screens during the 2012 London Olympics has now added a gadget to some of them that can track smartphones, eventually allowing for more targeted sales pitches.
A system currently being tested on European flights uses a short-wave ultraviolet laser to detect air density fluctuations that could signal a pocket of turbulence ahead.
Americans encounter incivility more than twice a day on average (2.4 times) according to a new study.
Some researchers are concerned that current methods are not the least painful and least stressful options.
Guest post by Jill Janes “Susie, you are to report to the principal’s office at once.” Those words strike terror directly into the heart of most elementary students. They are […]
China is in full gears to becoming a cultural superpower, and its 400 million micro-bloggershave a huge stake in creating the future society.
Like the Raspberry Pi, Columbia University professor Shree Nayar’s device helps kids learn the basics of hardware design, and he also plans to donate some to underprivileged communities.
Someone who would suffer a great deal is deemed to be immature.
For other subjects, an app that allows teachers to create, analyze and grade assignments online, and provides students with instant feedback on their work, may seem like no big deal. For music theory, it’s a big deal.
A trap created by Rutgers University scientists that resembles an overturned plastic dog food bowl caught many more bedbugs than a similar, shallower trap. The addition of special chemical lures made them even more effective.
I first practiced Bikram Yoga over a decade ago in SoHo. The heat punched through me like a lead fist. Although a few years experienced in Vinyasa, the thick atmosphere […]
Renowned psychologist and emotion-guru Paul Ekman describes how introducing conscious awareness to facial expressions can help one override and control their emotions.
The next wave of terrorist attacks may be fueled by explosives surgically implanted inside the bodies of suicide bombers.
Reports of hearing meteors as they passed overheard were largely dismissed until about 20 years ago, when a scientist proved that very low-frequency radio waves could be picked up by certain objects, such as wire-rimmed glasses.
To coincide with the Discovery Channel’s annual “Shark Week” series, Nova Southeastern University has launched a Web site that allows visitors to follow specially-tagged sharks as they swim around the world.
Find out how as we chat LIVE with Robert Greene at 1:30 PM Eastern on 8/7/2013
An engineer has developed a process that will produce ammonia more cleanly and possibly in enough amounts to provide an alternative energy source.
The video below gives us a microscopic view of an event that is happening with great frequency this month: a mosquito is eating human for dinner.
The Sun’s magnetic field will flip in three to four months, an event that will have ripple effects across the Solar System, that’s detectable by even the far-away Voyager probes at the doorstep of interstellar space.
If consumers thought about the economics of Restaurant Week, they might prefer to stay away.
While the vast majority of mainstream press attention (and capital) focuses on the 1st through 3rdVerticals, some of the real paradigm shifting technologies and approaches may be in the 4th and 5th Verticals. […]
In our material, measurable world, infinity is never a real, physical quantity; it is only an abstraction.
A new study warns that the rock that landed near Chelyabinsk in February may be part of a larger group of asteroid remnants, all with orbits that could potentially lead them to Earth.
The government announced the closing of the country’s two public zoos in July, with many of their residents moving to private centers. However, a separate law passed in December means those centers don’t have a lot of vacancies.