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In metallurgy, an alloy is a mixture of two different metals that has different properties than either of those metals taken separately.
Ideas spread around not just through human word-of-mouth.
The easiest way to get Americans, in particular, onboard programming is by frightening the bejesus out of them.
Scientists at MIT are hoping to map the 86 billion connected neurons in your brain, and have developed a browser game for you to help them accomplish this.
Later this year, transportation officials plan to set aside one “singles” car on its trains for a fixed amount of time each week…and yes, they’re doing it to help busy people find mates.
Let the numbers do the talking. 2.5 million children die of malnutrition every year. Meanwhile, we produce 27% more food per person today than we did 50 years ago when […]
A small village in Spain reports that incidences of uncollected dog waste have dropped by 70 percent ever since offenders began receiving deliveries of their dogs’ leftovers.
Elisabeth Badinter’s important and arousing polemic, The Conflict: How Overzealous Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women, is now out in paperback in the U.S. Prospective mothers (as well as those […]
Verizon says it doesn’t want to replace copper-wire lines damaged during last year’s Superstorm Sandy, and AT&T hopes to turn off its entire landline network by 2020.
What the average person in the Westernized world considers to be a big problem is rarely aligned with reality.
Liberty-minded Americans wonder when and if their countrymen will say, “enough is enough.”
The Russian intelligence service has put in an order for typewriters and ribbons in hopes of avoiding Edward Snowden-type digital leaks. Writer Marc Herman notes that for the rest of us, this approach won’t make much difference.
When the Vatican recently cleared both Pope John XXIII and Pope John Paul II for sainthood—a hyper-holy two-fer—critics all along the political spectrum grumbled over the honoring of one man […]
It’s not just for the disabled: Recent design school graduate Gabriele Meldaikyte spent a year studying situations in which able-bodied people may find themselves with only one hand to spare.
Expedition 36 Crew Member, astronaut Karen Nyberg, demonstrates how she washes her hair in space onboard the International Space Station.
In a video produced with the ACLU, director Oliver Stone explores the legacy of unchecked government surveillance programs, from Nixon to the current NSA spying program.
Do Buddhism’s many facets as a movement mean that no criticism can ever be applied to it?
How humble is “His Holiness” The Dalai Lama really?
Does the sinister wordplay surrounding Buddhism in The West obscure the truth?
Yes, there is no religious peace.
Does Buddhist history reflect its peaceful image?
Introducing Buddhism, Blasphemy, and Blackmail
We have old genes that are well adapted to living in some previous environment that are constantly encountering new environments.
Stress at critical periods of development can be bad for the developing brain.
As long as the stress is transient, and then taken away, that seems to be a feature that leads to better stress responses later on.
Family size is a much larger determinate of personality than the order of one’s birth.
Brushing your teeth with the wrong hand can increase things that might matter to you much more, like sticking with an exercise program.
The foul distinction belongs to ancient cousins of ours: cyanobacteria.