So Republicans are starting to compare the signature lies of President Clinton and President Obama. Here they are: “I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.” “No […]
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The last above-ground map of the ancient water system was completed a century ago. Now, a group of scientists is using 21st-century technology to provide the first-ever map containing both underground and surface data.
Compassion is an important concept, and even more important practice to integrate into one’s life. Like all ideas, layers underlie the meaning. One of the most fascinating is what Tibetan […]
To celebrate 10 years of images from the European Space Agency’s Mars Express orbiter, the German Aerospace Center has compiled a video that gives sweeping digital views of the planet’s landscape.
There are many ways to transmit big ideas – through videos, through the written word, or as the title of this blog attests, through pictures that are worth more than 1,000 words.
Two new studies agree that Kepler-78b is about the same size and composition as Earth, but because it orbits its star at one-tenth the distance of our orbit, it’s way too hot to support life.
Our primal fear can make modern humans oversensitive, and cause us to react to dangers that don’t exist and push us to make illogical and irrational decisions.
When one hears the word “oligarch,” one might think of the Russian billionaires who control the production of petroleum, natural gas and metal, and as a result, wield a disproportionate amount of power in Putin’s Russia.
In 2012, demand exceeded supply by 300 million cases, a number Morgan Stanley analysts say is “the deepest shortfall in over 40 years of records.”
Baseball fans are “the most digitally-wired on the planet.” And that is paying off very well for Major League Baseball.
If new research from Spain can be further developed into a viable model, it could mean great things for tobacco growers worried about the future of their business.
An expert is someone whose purpose in life is to tell you why something won’t work. So goes the old adage, but the entrepreneur and philanthropist Naveen Jain isn’t buying it.
Nobody knows for sure what is inside two floating barges, owing to some extraordinary secrecy measures that have been taken.
THERE IS something I must tell you about China: It is rather morally creative in the usage of its women. There isn’t a hotel, massage parlor, ktv, or conference hall in town […]
In the midst of all that devastation, there were two technologies that literally shone: microgrids and cogeneration.
Tech-savvy, hard-working people, says Tyler Cowen in his book Average is Over, have a lot to gain in the new economy. The rest of us? Not so much.
Currently being tested in Iowa and Florida, Starchase fires the bullets from the grill of a pursuing police car, which then stick to the fleeing vehicle and deliver coordinates to a computer or smartphone.
Have you ever noticed how long people look at a painting in a museum or gallery? Surveys have clocked view times anywhere between 10 and 17 seconds. The Louvre estimated […]
Next month, the first of nine episodes of “Sheriff Callie’s Wild West” will air exclusively on the Watch Disney Junior app and a related Web site. It’s a blatant attempt to grab the growing audience of tablet-using kids ages 2-7.
Fifty-two percent of Americans believe the death penalty is applied fairly in the United States — a smaller figure than the 60% who favor the death penalty.
For two years, researchers tracked over a million Facebook adults who were married or “in a relationship.” Among many findings, they learned that the more mutual friends a couple had, the more likely it was that they’d break up.
The company has begun a three-month trial of Wikipedia Zero in Kenya. It works exclusively via SMS and is designed to reach the millions of people who have mobile phones but no Internet access.
Oil is not properly priced from anyone’s standpoint. Coal is not an acceptable answer. Where does that leave us?
We are searching for the medium that allows people to both learn and teach.
Vancouver is now home to a machine that accepts and dispenses only cash and Bitcoin account data. The goal, say its owners, is to make the virtual currency easier to buy and sell.
The video below, released to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Mars Express, is a stunning flyover of the planet, showcasing grabens, dendritic valleys, lava flows and the highest known mountain in the Solar System.
So the new X-Men film trailer is out. It’s being Tweeted, Facebooked; it’s probably rising through the ranks of YouTube, Vimeo and so on. It’s easy content for sites, a blessing of […]
Gloria Feldt: I have my religious beliefs too and they tell me that using birth control is a good thing and that birth control is basic healthcare that should be part of any insurance plan.
How long must creative people wait for the Web’s new wealth to find a path to their doors?
Whether we are looking at climate change, whether we are looking at AIDS, whether we are looking at war and conflict, the stem of it comes into making sure that people are educated.