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I think that we’re just at the very, very beginning of watching the implications of being ubiquitously connected to everybody on the planet and what you can do with that.
I think that it’s great to inspire new generations of thinkers; it’s terrible to create new authority.
Nicholas Negroponte famously called the Media Lab a place full of answers looking for questions.
One of the beautiful things about the Internet is that everybody has a voice. And one of the terrible things about the Internet is that everybody has a voice.
We’re bopping around like little birds on a wire looking at anything that pops up.
Maybe we’re not going to demonize the poor or the guy who lost his house as much as we might have 15 years ago.
Thankfully, several women’s organizations have started a campaign to have advertisers pull their dollars from Facebook until it gets over its misogyny and rape love. There’s a link to some […]
A luxury apartment building is now under construction in Taiwan, and its design was inspired by the double helix of the DNA molecule.
Daniel Dennett has posted a fantastic set of “seven tools for thinking” in an article in the Guardian that has gone so viral that if you haven’t seen it yet, […]
Athletes, workout enthusiasts, and everyone who has suffered from the embarrassing armpit “situation”, rejoice. Bioengineers at University of California, Davis have developed a new fabric that works like human skin, […]
A true pacifist doesn’t even think there should be police forces. I can’t agree with that.
I think religious people can really help to bring the end of war about very rapidly if they embrace the tenants of their faith.
Does Obama have the right to kill Americans with drones?
Anxiety is the most prevalent emotion in most organizations in the United States today.
Two University of California-Davis graduate students have created a textile that uses microfluidic technology to direct liquid completely away from itself, which could result in extra-sweaty equipment.
I get fed by the human spirit by seeing the kind of art that is created there and the kinds of innovation.
Chris Anderson’s community is aimed at demonetizing a number of industries.
As humans we think linearly, but the world is changing exponentially.
To kids and adults who fear injections, Buzzy looks like a plastic toy. However, when applied to the skin, its vibrating motor and ice pack block the pain of the needle.
With the launch of the mobile platform UberAds, advertisers will be able to use a potential customer’s publicly-available data — including their GPS location — to deliver extremely specific promotions.
That’s the most optimistic date presented by the US military, assuming current research continues. Earlier this month, an Air Force experimental aircraft hit a top speed of Mach 5.1.
We now understand that humans are 90% microbial but only 10% human.
I assert that if you are depressed after learning and being exposed to the cosmic perspective, you started your day with an unjustifiably large ego.
We may soon find out: NASA just gave Systems & Materials Research Corporation a six-month, $125,000 grant to develop a working prototype of a food synthesizer.
A study of participant data from the citizen science project GLOBE at Night shows that on average, people’s observations of artificial night sky brightness were surprisingly accurate compared with satellites.
Robert Kaplan argues that leaders want to promote people who are authentic, and not afraid to take risks.
So what young conservative blogger/essayist would you recommend to challenge those who believe they’re smarter than every conservative in the world? Well, SAM GOLDMAN. Sam’s not the only one by […]
You can’t allow people freedom and then change your mind when the things don’t go your way.
This animation shows the GOES-13 visible imagery during the daylight hours of the 20th.