As technology and media continue to evolve at an exponential rate, marketers and consumers alike have started to adopt new practices and behaviors to ensure that they keep pace.
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Maybe it’s truer and more useful to marvel at how we very nearly destroyed ourselves after discovering an unstable new energy source, then figured our way out of it.
The success of an employee working from home depends on the person, on the job and on the training the organization provides to do that role remotely.
The emergence of freewill in the human species is a result of evolution, not a brute fact.
So what can you do if you tend to give a lot in a friendship and don’t always get what you need in return?
All the self-analyzing and, in turn, self-promotions, that we interact with through digital and social technologies has actually created a caring economy based on shared values.
Studies show that students flourish best when under constantly under a moderate amount of stress.
Conflict avoidance, reconciliation and cooperative problem solving could also have been altogether “biological” and positively selected for.
GMO-free, fresh, out-of-your-own garden produce is (almost) everyone’s dream. For urban dwellers and gardening novices, however, it usually comes true only on farmers’ markets days. UrbnEarth’s founder Phil Weiner is […]
The widely-read science news site, Popular Science, recently decided to remove comment sections almost completely – save for a minority of articles. Online content director, Susan Labarre, explains: “Comments can […]
While personalized health systems offer some promise, there is reason to worry about their larger social effects.
Other drugs could potentially be integrated into the ring, such as contraceptives or antiviral drugs to prevent other sexually transmitted infections.
There’s been a lot of criticism lately of badly written science, following the publication of Michael Billig’s Learn to Write Badly: How to Succeed in the Social Sciences in which […]
Despite recent medical developments, our understanding of the brain is still quite incomplete.
Researchers in Illinois have created the world’s first prosthetic controlled entirely by the user’s mind.
Children not only need to nap, but should be encouraged to nap.
Since 2011, the London agency has employed a team of “super-recognizers” who have an exceptional memory for faces. Despite their success, legal experts say their use could raise questions about what’s considered allowable testimony in court.
Released today (Sept. 27) after an all-night session, the summary document of the UN panel’s forthcoming report declares that the proof of climate change is “unequivocal” and that human activity is “extremely likely” to be at fault.
A few months ago I posted a piece on the alarming resurgence in the use of lie detectors in the UK and the US. A new documentary looks at the use […]
New research suggests that playing a musical instrument could help slow or even prevent the age-related decline of certain mental functions, such as the ability to process data more efficiently without being affected by occasional errors.
The same model used to bring farm-fresh produce to urban dwellers is being applied to art, with members purchasing shares and receiving works from local artists.
Analysis of the first scoop of topsoil picked up by NASA’s Curiosity rover reveals a composition that includes two percent water. It could mean one less worry for future human visitors.
One of the most profound experiences I’ve had in the past decade in New York City was witnessing former Mayor Rudy Giuliani accept the first annual Children’s Foundation Hero Award […]
The bookies can change their odds whenever they want, completely at their own discretion.
While the primary purpose of Stir’s Kinetic Desk is to encourage workers to stand regularly, extra built-in features let them track their sitting and standing times and may eventually connect to wearable sensors.
The tragic event compelled nonprofit tech company Ushahidi to create a rough draft of a tool that eventually can be used by even the simplest cell phones. They’ve posted the code online in hopes that others will help finish it.
Picking up on the urban farming trend, a Pennsylvania couple has launched a startup that allows the curious-but-clueless to rent two egg-laying hens and equipment for a single season.
Guest posted by Todd Hurst. Crossposted here. Around December of last year I was approached about doing some consulting work in tech leadership with a local school district. I was […]
THIS JUST IN: “A large percentage of American college students who post professor evaluations at Ratemyprofessors.com consider courses to be high-quality when the professor is attractive and the course is easy.”
The device employs the same technology NASA uses to locate Cassini’s position in deep space. With it, searchers can find people buried under as much as 30 feet of crushed material.