The iPhone is essentially an extension of the human mind, and that’s totally natural.
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The end of the world has been coming for quite some time. As Reza Aslan points out in Zealot, Jesus Christ was not the only End Times preacher with stock […]
The project is a collaboration between the city’s public transportation authority, a bookstore and an online education provider. Riders can pick up a book at one stop and drop it off at another.
In an attempt to dial down sex trade street traffic, the city erected an outdoor compound on an industrial site. It consists of drive-in “sex boxes” with special precautions built in to protect prostitutes from predatory clients.
As comedian Martin Mull (allegedly) once said, “Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.” Sound’s non-verbal qualities help it elude any attempts to pin it down definitively through the […]
A new study suggests that the necessary ingredients for life existed on Mars first, back when it was far more hospitable than it is now, and arrived here via a meteorite.
University of Nevada-Reno engineers have created a composite of nickel titanium — the material that gives eyeglass frames their flexibility — that can reinforce and stabilize bridges better than traditional steel and concrete.
President Obama gave a stirring speech today in Washington, D.C. He reflected on those who marched 50 years ago today. He praised the “brilliance” of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. […]
Stop using ‘literally’ figuratively!
The University of Newcastle plans to build a plant that will test a method of converting carbon emissions to inert “bricks” that could eventually be used in construction.
Can one read the brain and make inferences about what is actually being experienced by an individual?
The world tends to reward specialists.
First discovered in 2004, the as-yet-unnamed element will eventually occupy a spot in the periodic table between two other elements that got their official names just last year.
I think we have a distorted vision of Dr. King because need him to be useful to us in ways that ameliorate our situation but also mollify our consciences.
Discovered in the constellation of Capricornus with the help of the Very Large Telescope (VLT), HIP 102152’s characteristics confirm longstanding scientific speculation about how stars like ours age.
“The Internet was a way to connect computers, and now it can be a way to connect brains.”
Yesterday, the journal Psychological Science published a paper by Uri Simonsohn online (it’s behind a paywall but you can access a free earlier version here). The paper calls on researchers […]
Last week I spoke with Elana Schor of Greenwire about the Obama White House and Organizing for America’s strategy to pre-empt efforts by conservatives to undermine support for the proposed […]
According to government estimates, over half a million young people between the ages of 12 and 18 have problems with Internet addiction. The program will address the severe lack of treatment available from public and private institutions.
Some financial companies look at potential borrowers’ social media footprint — including their friends and, eventually, their friends’ credit scores — to determine whether they qualify.
Within the field of artificial intelligence, a new Japanese initiative promises to further blur the line between human and machine. A group of AI researchers at Japan’s National Institute of Informatics just […]
A California school district says that safety is the reason why it hired tracking company Geo Listening to monitor students’ posts.
The government spends $4 billion a year, pays for 10 billion servings of soda for poor people every year.
Why are prisoners so religious?
Should companies have secrets? Sometimes they should, but I think companies too much believe that secrets are their secret sauce.
Weapons-grade chemicals such as sarin are “possibly some of the most dangerous things that humans have ever made, after the atom bomb.”
As people search for ways to make their passwords more secure, the makers of a free tool announce that their code can now crack passwords of as many as 55 characters in length in a radically short period of time.
If a doctor looked at you or me thoroughly enough, with all the diagnostic tools now at her disposal, she could almost certainly find something wrong. A spot here, […]
Nordic Choice CEO Petter Stordalen laid down the new law after becoming involved with UNICEF’s campaign against child trafficking and exploitation.
What would it look like to fly through the distant universe? The video below is a 3-D model of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF), one of the most distant fields of galaxies ever imaged.