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.
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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.
People will not gloat about success. They will gloat about failure. It’s just the fact of life.
You have to love the process of starting from scratch.
When you’re young you really don’t have the concept of failure.
Guess what else is as unique as your fingerprint and can be scanned using a special infrared camera? Scientists in India have created an algorithm that can analyze such scans to over 97 percent accuracy.
When Reinhold Niebuhr wrote The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness in 1944, he was discussing democracy, which was coming under attack during world war two. He did […]
Listen to a recording of students’ excoriating an NSA recruiter.
Scientists say their new storage method — which consists of encoding data on self-assembled nanostructures in fused quartz using a very fast laser — could preserve immense amounts of data long after human civilization has ended.
TouchKeys is a sensor-based system that enables a pianist to slide and wiggle their fingers just like a guitarist to produce the same types of sound effects. Unlike other systems, this one preserves the original keyboard design.
The regenerative abilities of flatworms allow them to regrow their memories.
It might look similar to a material, developed by an engineer at North Carolina State University, that received high praise from attendees at a recent conference.
Designed at Chicago’s Toyota Technological Institute, it can help a car figure out its location even when it’s under a bridge or going through a tunnel…a useful skill in the coming driverless age.
Why open access makes no sense (with a satirical slant).