Movie ratings in the United States today boil down to a few simple elements—sex bombs, f-bombs, and real (fake) bombs. Too much sex or nudity, too much profanity, or too […]
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Five score and seventeen years ago, the United States was a boxy, silver-coloured dog with a chunky tail of dark gold. That bizarre image, embedded in the familiar outline of […]
Is the frequency of extreme weather events a sign that global warming is gaining pace and exceeding predictions?
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein: Religious belief is now something that scientists are looking at and trying to explain and I don’t think it’s an accident that the most prominent atheist writers come from the domain of evolutionary psychology.
Sadly, the only thing that you can consistently say about someone who holds a high school diploma, especially one issued in the last few years, is that they come from a family stable enough to get them to school most days for 12 years.
Everybody built very big missiles all through the end of the marketplace at once and they kind of canceled each other out.
Companies need to test their most interesting people now, to get them ready to take over soon. The markets demand this, and ignoring the markets is always foolhardy.
“I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don’t need.” – Auguste Rodin
Have you heard about the Echinacea that was actually ground-up Parthenium hysterophorus, an invasive exotic weed in Asia and Africa which doesn’t do much for a cold but causes […]
Perhaps more surprising than the fact that San Francisco-based DJ Cheb i Sabbah passed away last Thursday is that he survived nearly two years longer than his initial one-month assessment […]
Software testing can only simulate user behavior and demand in this kind of large-scale technology deployment; it can’t really pattern what will happen.
Real lovers of real markets must deal with their ills. It’s time we all were market realists.
Women have at least 50 percent of buying power in households and I think it’s natural and essential that businesses have women on their boards.
Overcoming a limited belief requires ignoring that little voice in your head that says, “I can’t”, “I’m not good enough”, “only so and so people can do that” – one could spend a lifetime coming up with excuses.
It’s difficult to wrap your head around the scale of destruction that was caused by Super-Typhoon Haiyan, one of the most intense tropical cyclones in history. Satellite images released by NASA and other agencies provide some perspective.
As we get older, our brain is more of a lean machine that is optimized to do things well. The tradeoff is that we are “not nearly as good at learning something new.”
New research suggests that gut bacteria may very well play a role in the development of rheumatoid arthritis and also underscores the importance of gut bacteria (which outnumber human cells ten-to-one) in keeping our bodies healthy.
Francis Fukuyama famously wrote in a 1992 book that we’d reached “The End of History.” He meant that the major ideological conflict of the 20th century, between Communism and democracy, […]
“There’s no such thing as a stupid question.” We’d now like to present eleven more, courtesy of the same esteemed panel of “logic-dodging” jokesters over at Reddit that came up with the original list.
Megan Smith talks about the role technologies like mobile and the Internet play in giving a voice to billions of people who up until this point had none.
There are potentially a lot more discoveries to be made within our oceans, with as little as 5% of it explored so far.
I would not want to look forward to a culture where science lost and religious faith became the dominating force for truth. I would not want to live in a culture where faith lost and science, with all of its reductionism and its materialism became the sole source of truth.
What’s the evidence for the idea that God exists or doesn’t exist?
The so-called ‘Valley of Death’ is where a lot of research projects die.
William Butler Yates wrote, “There is no singing school, but studying monuments of its own magnificence.”
The best argument for teaching poetry is to put a three-year-old or a four-year-old and read Dr. Seuss, or Robert Louis Stevenson, and to feel how the child and you are engaging in something that’s really basic to the animal, which is passing on in these rhythmic ways, something that came from somewhere.
We use our own body to make poetry. There is no fiddle, there is no paint, it’s the air that comes out of your body shaped in ways that have evolved and that are controlled by our brain.
Cloud filmmaking is the exciting collaboration of artists and citizens and people who just want to make something together.
I feel women really need to be running their own companies so they can set new ground rules for how you can be a mother, a good mother and also participate in society.
The Web is about collaboration. The web is about empathy. The web is about multitasking. These are all qualities that women are very good at.