Now that Facebook and other sites are incorporating more photo features, writer Molly McHugh takes note of how images are starting to replace — rather than complement — text as a means of communication.
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Traditionally, cultural waves around food would take a much longer time to spread, generate hype and spawn imitators and fade out- but not at the breakneck pace that we are witnessing in 2013.
Amazon.com may have been down in North America for as long as 45 minutes this week.
Your greatest danger is that you’re going to be replaceable by the time you’re in your late 30s.
We hear the admonishments all the time; smoking ___ cigarettes a day will take ___ years off your life, drinking ___ glasses of alcohol a day will take […]
A new song captures the feelings of the anti-surveillance movement.
A new agreement targeting Dutch content publishers involves linking an e-book’s digital watermark to the purchaser’s account. That way, if a copy of the e-book ends up on a pirating site, the publishers will know who to come after.
The country became the first in the world to officially recognize the use of the virtual currency for legal and tax purposes.
Meet e-David (Drawing Apparatus for Vivid Image Display), a robot who is programmed to copy works of art.
41 images were stitched together to create this sped-up movie that shows Phobos, the larger of the two Martian moons, passing Deimos, the smaller one.
This is to counterpose the picture which is developed in physics from Galileo and Newton and Descartes down to the present quantum cosmologists.
Thinking that leadership as binary is a very big mistake.
Let’s suppose you are running the perfect state, the perfect government. You would want to go on a little world tour before you got down to business to see the […]
With the world economy fighting its way off the ropes, is China capable of supporting global commerce by developing an economic juggernaut like Apple or Ikea?
On Tuesday evening, the television news network Al Jazeera America will enter the homes of nearly half of this country’s 100 million cable subscribers.
Doomsday predictions about a world with too many mouths to feed, once predicted to reach 11 billion by 2050, are being drastically reevaluated.
The Finnish system spends about one-quarter less money per pupil than the American system, yet student achievement remains high.
While this summer has yielded mostly positive economic news, the engines of recovery in Europe, Japan, and China, may inevitably lose steam.
Twenty years ago, I predicted that when the exponential and predictable progress of processing power, storage, and bandwidth—what I called the three digital accelerators—reached the levels we would have by […]
On June 19, the world’s first automatic magazine newsstand reached the Swedish consumers. Meganews Magazines is up and running in Stockholm, hoping to change the modern media landscape. The newsstand kiosk […]
Earlier this month, Lu Ann Ballew, a judge in Tennessee, decided that seven-month-old Messiah Deshawn Martin must lose his first name. Her reasoning is inspiring condemnation from across the religious […]
Seventy-five years ago, The Museum of Modern Art staged their first exhibition devoted to the work of a single photographer—Walker Evans: American Photographer. That show brought together many of Walker […]
Within the first 30 seconds after cardiac arrest, there is a widespread, transient surge of highly synchronized brain activity that had features associated with a highly aroused brain.
Known as prospective memory, scientific research has shed new light on two separate brain processes that prompt the brain to tell you to remember certain things.
While the raw computational power of the brain declines with age, new studies have found that intelligence increases with maturity.
An American firm has created the world’s first brain implant that delivers treatment while recording brain activity as a way of anticipating future health changes.
So we live in a time when we look for wisdom from mega-entrepreneurs. I admit that they’re usually really smart and fascinating–not to say full of contradictions. Peter Thiel, for […]
Individuals are drawn to either good or bad behavior depending on how they recall their past actions.
If you can’t make it in The Land of the Free, you’re defective—that’s the default assumption, the core belief that allows Americans who aren’t hurting, who aren’t unhappy with their lot, to cling to quaint mid-twentieth-century Walt Disney notions about the inherent wonderfulness of American life.