I first met the Dalai Lama in 2000 at his headquarters in Dharamshala, in the northern part of India. And I had absolutely no interest in the Dalai Lama. I […]
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Survey data from a new report indicates that 48 percent of unmarried women between ages 15-44 live with a significant other, a 13 percent jump from 1995. Such couples are also staying together longer before either marrying or breaking up.
We imagine our view of the world like a painting from the Realism movement – rife with detail and comprehensible – but the contents of our conscious mind are more […]
Throughout my career I’ve been surprised. Perhaps the most amazing surprise to me was actually one that I ultimately proposed but it defied everything I’d thought before. And that is […]
Writer David Meyer hones in on what this crypto-currency experiment — regardless of whether it succeeds or fails — could mean for the future. According to him, “The genie is out of the bottle.”
You cannot prevent weapons by preventing technologies. We just have to use them carefully, particularly the power of genetics.
So constitutional journalists such as Linda Greenhouse have attacked the federalism argument that libertarian constitutional scholars such as Randy Barnett want to use to strike down the DOMA. The result, […]
If you’re losing your sense of humor, if you’re not able to laugh at things, then what are you doing? It’s an indicator that maybe information that you’re consuming has […]
It is believed that the first war-related photographs were taken in 1847 by an anonymous photographer during the Mexican–American War, of which we “Remember the Alamo” and little else. But […]
Humans have this almost paralyzing fear of death. One thing that keeps it from being paralyzing is this belief in what’s called symbolic immortality. It’s this sense that our symbolic […]
So we have no idea what happens after we die, and I’ve taken that lack of our knowledge as an opportunity to write fiction about it. I have a book […]
The rapid transformation in public opinion on legalizing marijuana mirrors changes in support for gay marriage in a number of interesting, yet also contradictory ways.
Helmet cams are great when they’re not going through the smoke and haze typically associated with burning buildings. Sensors built into this helmet warn its wearer of objects through vibrations.
The Universe is in a runaway mode, but here is the catch: we don’t know how long that runaway mode is going to last.
Among several companies that have announced plans to bring 3D scanning to the masses is Toronto-based Matterform, which is offering a portable device for less than the cost of some tablets.
Social psychology has demonstrated that the more people think you don’t have free will, the worse they behave.
When you are trying to decide on what kind of doctor that you need for a particular problem first you have to think what kind of problem you have. So […]
Greg Dash made his lo-fi digital fisheye camera by hand, omitting the viewscreen so that users can experience the surprise and discovery of film photography.
1. Living on the Edge: 2,000 Black Holes At the center of the Milky Way galaxy there is a supermassive black hole that everything else has formed around. But it’s […]
While I was writing a column on Victoria’s Secret and their “Bright Young Things” marketing campaign, I learned in the same set of articles about a new worry among adolescent […]
Inspired by the unique structure of the Blue Morpho’s iridescent wings, a Vancouver-based company has created an anti-counterfeiting technology that leaps several steps ahead of holography.
Created by engineering students, the Society Harnessing Equipment (SHE) will literally “shock” an assailant and send a text message alert to authorities or family.
The discovery, announced by NASA on Wednesday, is encouraging but still needs to be corroborated. That’s the job of scientists who are conducting experiments deep beneath the Earth’s surface.
How, our grandchildren will ask, did we come to marriage equality in the United States? And we’ll answer, like Hemingway’s Mike Campbell: “Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.” We can grasp […]
In Coming Apart I talk a lot about the American Project and what I had in mind by that is the idea that human beings could be left alone to live their […]
What big data means is we are able to learn things about ourselves at the population level, at a huge scale, that we never could in the past.
The field of 3D printing is advancing rapidly due to a convergence of technologies, or what might be called “a perfect storm.”
The environmentally friendly process, which involves a sugar found in most plants, has the potential to turn hydrogen into one of the most important biofuels in the world.
We can’t toss aside our responsibilities but we can take steps – even small ones – to better manage stress.
Ray Kurzweil is the author of the recent book How to Create a Mind. The first question we have for him is “why create a mind?”