In the last month, two people that I’ve critiqued in this column have replied and created fruitful dialogues. J. Brown, a teacher whom I respect for his intellectual fortitude, just […]
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The microbial pendulum is swinging back in the direction of embracing germs, and harvesting ancient wisdom into the mass personalization of microbial harmony.
Imaging technology has advanced to the point where a brain scan can detect a lie with up to 90 percent accuracy. That’s not good enough for the courtroom…yet.
Is DNA sampling just a 21st century version of fingerprinting, or a violation of our rights?
All too often we get plans which have this common assumption that the future’s going to be just like today.
We live in one unified world.
You can learn powerful habits of mind from the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes.
Which sayings are true, and which ones just sound nice?
Solving puzzles can give you a sense of satisfaction that you don’t get in everyday life.
It’s your puzzle. Do it any way you like.
Every now and then we hear about people who are doing extraordinary things. It could be a world leader saving millions of lives, a businessperson revolutionizing an industry, or even […]
More employers and employees are looking into using their own personal devices for work instead of a company computer. Writer Brian Proffitt looks at the benefits and challenges for both groups.
We have not used the net to promote the kind of peer-to-peer economy that challenged feudalism in the 1100s and 1200s.
“Early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.” Really?
We are testing what it is like to lose privacy now because if the species survives, we’ll develop a capability to not be embarrassed anymore.
Now that Russian scientists claim to have retrieved a vial of blood from a thawing wooly mammoth carcass from the permafrost of Siberia, the scientific community has been buzzing with speculation […]
Unlike the hard sciences, macroeconomics has no airtight laws (with the possible exception of the law of supply and demand).
“Lucien Freud said if you’re painting humans you have the best subject matter in the world. It’s so true. That’s the concept of [my] work. Everything has humanity in it,” […]
Researchers have launched a project that will figure out how to get the sensors we carry (or will carry) on our bodies to talk to each other, creating “cooperative interpersonal networks” that relay a wide range of data.
Scott Barry Kaufman (@sbkaufman) is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychology at NYU, co-founder of The Creativity Post, Scientific American blogger, and a friend. He is also the author of Ungifted: Intelligence […]
While many colleges offer open online courses, Georgia Tech is the first to offer a full-credit graduate program. What’s more, the degree will cost about a quarter of those offered at traditional, onsite schools.
Optimistic reports of the recovering American economy, 70 percent of which relies on domestic consumption, overestimate the extent to which consumer spending is on the rebound.
most accurate cosmological simulation of the evolution of the large-scale structure of the universe yet
This is not a moral appeal. This is not a political appeal. This is a linguistic appeal.
Big Idea: Economic and Institutional Flexibility
Which sayings are true, and which ones just sound nice?
More than 120,000 sites are operating in the .su domain space assigned to the former Soviet Union, and a significant number of them are up to no good. Getting rid of the suffix would be “a messy operation.”
Inspired by Zip Car and similar projects in Europe, Carrot is the first car-share enterprise in Mexico. From just three cars, the program has grown to 40 vehicles and has signed up 8,500 members.
Do PFC Bradley Manning’s actions constitute ‘aiding the enemy’?
On the 24th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre, creative protests are popping up around the Web as well as on the ground in mainland China.