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The twisting path to becoming less dumb has led to many stops.
Many of Johannes Vermeer’s most famous paintings seem almost eerily silent: The Milkmaid pouring cool milk into a jar, The Lacemaker deep in concentration, the Girl with a Pearl Earring […]
Drifting in the deep, the hulking, yet streamlined mammoth unleashes a string of sound, a booming, but delicate song.
Each time it’s used, the device communicates with an iPhone app that keeps track and posts the user’s progress to a Twitter account named TweetingCiggy.
One of the reasons Joseph Campbell’s work in comparative mythology continues to resonate—some, myself included, would argue grow—is due to his ability to synthesize religious and spiritual traditions from around […]
The Vatican recently announced that following World Youth Day events on broadcast or social media can count towards a length reduction…but only if it’s accompanied by “requisite devotion.”
This month, Securing America’s Future Energy announced its inaugural “Energy Security Prize” competition for emerging and advanced technologies with the ability to significantly reduce America’s dependence on oil.
Jack Hidary hopes to model himself after Michael Bloomberg as a pragmatic, nonpartisan politician.
A Belgian business participated in a 10-day experiment in which researchers dispersed the scent of chocolate throughout the store at different times. Not surprisingly, customers lingered longer, and certain genres saw increased sales.
Scotland has its Loch Ness monster and Massachusetts has its Salem witches, but for many years Romania has resisted promoting itself as the home of Bram Stoker’s fictional vampire. That’s about to change.
Fearing for his marriage, a dentist fired an employee he deemed “irresistible.” The Iowa Supreme Court said that’s perfectly fine.
Although the agency refuses to confirm it, the CIA is helping to fund a study that will determine how and whether tinkering with the climate could impact national health, not to mention security.
Their am so many bad grammar every where.
Dubbed the “iKnife,” it’s connected to a mass spectrometer, which identifies certain chemical signatures that are then compared against an online database.
A new paper published in Perspectives in Psychological Science (open access) suggests there is “a fundamental design flaw that potentially undermines any causal inference” in much psychology research. The paper […]
As extreme weather events seem to be increasing around the world, changes consistent with the kinds of things climate change is predicted to cause, many people are realizing something […]
Should things be banned because they destroy many lives? An initial response might be YES. But consider what we’re actually replying to by saying “YES”. We’re not saying we want […]
By combining an optical fiber screen with a projector and an infrared camera, a team of researchers created a display that could be used for secure e-document handling, among other tasks.
A Latvian designer has created a urinal that includes a shallow sink built into the top. It’s economical too: When the person washes his hands, the water used rinses the urinal basin as well.
At a recent convention in London, manufacturers displayed prototypes of next-generation machines “that had the look, and feel, of oversized smartphones or tablet computers.”
If your smartphone is glued to your hand, then, we believe you are already a kind of Cyborg.
How is this magazine’s cover any different from another magazine using Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to sell copies?
At the Black Hat security conference later this month, two Spanish engineers plan to demonstrate a $25 gadget that can take over a car’s electronics.
A theoretical physicist has published a paper arguing the universe may be static, but the mass of everything is growing exponentially.
It’s interesting but apt that the prostitute, the stripper, and the porn actor—the real professionals!—are sometimes embraced and emulated as role models in this sexual rat race of ours. You’d […]
College is a risky investment, but you may be able to get a lot more out of living as a college graduate than if you didn’t have a college degree.
The mantra of the whole investment industry is simply not true.
Most people listen to win the interaction, not to hear the content.
While you might be less dumb than your ancestors, you are nonetheless guilty of backwards thinking all the time.