After the CMB, before the first stars, there was nothing to see. Or was there? “[I]f there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we […]
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Using only his thoughts, a quadriplegic man has successfully tested a robotic arm.
LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman has analyzed inherent contentions between workers and their bosses. His conclusion is that both sides operate under dishonest guises. An honest assessment of work roles could go a long way toward improving the professional relationship.
Words of wisdom from Kurt Vonnegut: “The telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.”
Called ZipCap, the private loan company enables small businesses to treat loyal customers as collateral — an asset which traditional lenders have never considered viable.
Nassim Taleb’s theories on unpredictable events can inform the MLB Draft’s selection process.
It’s safe to say most of us hate going to the dentist. But you know what’s worse than going to the dentist? Having no teeth.
Information Theory explicitly ignores meaning. Its focus on messages makes it uninformative about their effects. And limits the usefulness of its way of quantifying information.
Psychedelics like psilocybin and LSD are being researched again after a 40-year hiatus, and the results are promising, from both a scientific and spiritual perspective.
As the machines in our lives struggle to understand simple speech, is there a chance they could ever understand our emotions? Researchers Reza Asadi and Harriet Fell think so.
“Daddy, why do all the players have dark skin?” When my eldest daughter posed this question one football Saturday six years ago, she had no concept of race in mind […]
Sure, they wiped out the dinosaurs, but do they really pose a risk to humans? “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind […]
Words of wisdom from American poet Walt Whitman: “I think of few heroic actions, which cannot be traced to the artistical impulse. He who does great deeds, does them from his innate sensitiveness to moral beauty.”
It’s possible to grow hamburger in a laboratory. Scientists have done it. It’s actual meat. The problem is the process for creating meat is currently prohibitively expensive, although that may not be the case for long.
People like rewards. Researchers found people are more likely to participate in programs as well as change their behavior if there’s a little money coming their way.
How do corporations that have perpetuated dysfunctional, despicable, and illegal cultures turn those around? Is it even possible?
More than 20 years ago, the sitcom Seinfeld went “meta” and joked that it was “a show about nothing.” But 20 years before George Costanza’s epiphany, artist Richard Tuttle was staging shows about nothing featuring works such as Wire Piece (detail shown above) — a piece of florist wire nailed at either end to a wall marked with a penciled line. But, as Jerry concludes, there’s “something” in that “nothing.” A new retrospective of Tuttle’s art at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia, Both/And: Richard Tuttle Print and Cloth, dives into the depths, and widths, of this difficultly philosophical, yet compellingly simple artist who takes the everyday nothings of line, paper, and cloth to create extraordinary statements about the need to be mindful of the artful world all around us.
Image credit: © 2015 MotorTrend Magazine, via http://www.motortrend.com/roadtests/suvs/1110_mopar_underground_jeep_and_ram_run_wild_at_moab/photo_06.html. How gravity teaches us that the mountains we see extend far underground. “Journalists often ask me when I go to the field, […]
The late-night host’s departure from television is yet another reminder that our media consumption is changing.
Robots have already bested humans in chess and Jeopardy; now, developers are trying to create the next poker master.
A UK hospital hopes the device will help patients manage their medication and track their symptoms.
“In the depth of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger — something better, pushing right back.”
Common assumptions about the dangers of radiation are excessive. Journalism plays a huge role in creating and feeding these fears.
We don’t need to eat meat, and yet we still do. Researchers sought to find out how people defended their meat-eating habits.
Researchers believe that mothers and fathers complement each other when aiding in their child’s speech development.
Researchers found banning smartphones from the classroom helped raise the worst students’ test scores and bring up the class average.
Singularity University’s Peter Diamandis discusses one way in which virtual reality — a burgeoning exponential technology — will disrupt unexpected sectors of culture and society.
A series of mysterious white features lurk at the bottom of one of its most massive craters. Here’s what they could be, and how we’ll find out! “One of the […]
King coal has been dethroned for decades. Yet he still determines how Brits vote.
Dance classes are low in physical activity, study says, but there’s more to the story.