A million-year natural process takes minutes in the lab.
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“Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.” – Jean Genet
I want to think about garbage today. Driving home from the store, I made an informal census of the garbage by the side of the road and in the green […]
Lee Smolin: As long as people of faith respect the facts and the deductions of science we should be respectful of their faith and their search for a faith.
Vikas Pota: I care a lot about education because I’m the product of education.
Chinese state television released this video of the Chang’e-3 space probe landing on the Moon, the first soft-landing in three decades.
The idea of uploading your brain to the Internet has been proposed by the likes of Stephen Hawking and Ray Kurzweil. According to Michael Graziano, the question is not if, but when, and what then?
“A right is not what someone gives you; it’s what no one can take from you.”- Ramsey Clark (born on this date in 1927)
The future of sex is here, or at least it could be, technically speaking.
Fewer than 14% of American silent films still exist today in complete form according to “The Survival of American Silent Feature Films: 1912-1929,” a recent Library of Congress report by […]
Do you know the science of global warming? Fortunately, Michael Ranney at the University of California, Berkeley, put together a video that explains the science in less than one minute.
Ray Jayawardhana: Being a scientist has given me a chance to see the world.
The astrophotographer Juan Carlos Casado has estimated there are 50 meteors visible in this composite image of the Geminids meteor shower.
Unless you have agreement on facts it’s very hard to agree on remedies for a problem.
Distrust is not a personality trait, nor a cultural trait. It is learned through experience, and can therefore be unlearned through experience.
The human face is the most precise signal system we have for our emotions. We can read seven different emotions and determine whether they’re being falsified or whether they are genuine expressions.
Learn about a method for making targeted commitments that succeeded virtually every time.
Google’s recent purchase of the defense contractor Boston Dynamics has raised eyebrows, and also brought the inevitable – if overblown – comparisons between Google and Skynet.
“Writers who used to show off their erudition no longer sing in the bare ruined choir of the media.”- William Safire (born on this date in 1929)
A victory for common sense, a setback for sex and drugs and rock ‘n roll
Over its history the Earth has seen an incredible diversity of life – maybe as many as fifty million species.
This drone, which weighs just 20 grams, can avoid obstacles without human guidance.
The lunar landing represents a significant milestone for China’s space program. China sent its first astronaut to space in 2003.
Taking everyday sensors and the data they generate online will advance the progression of the Internet of Things, where in the future virtually everything will have a digital footprint.
Today marks the first major legal setback for the NSA wiretapping program.
Nobody knows when the next galactic supernova might occur, but thanks to the development of massive neutrino detectors, we would have an “unprecedented peek at the action.”
Guest post by Kevin Flora(Cross post from kevinflora.com) “Why did the chicken cross the road?” If you say “to get to the other side,” you could use a workshop in […]
Unfortunately, family vacations can often be an intense time of stress when the ostensible purpose is to relax and recharge.
Jesus and Buddha both embraced the philosophy of love your enemy. Columbia University professor Robert Thurman takes us through the history of vengeance and explains how to minimize contention between you and your enemies.
If you disregard the original intentions of Bach and the intentions of the church authorities who commissioned his music, you are missing the most subversive element of Bach—his independence of spirit, his humanism.