The Magellanic Stream, which extends almost halfway around the Milky Way, is only detectable at radio wavelengths, and made visible in the wonderful composite image above.
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Scientists at Duke University stimulated sensory neurons in a way that eventually allowed six rats to locate light signals that are invisible to the (unmodified) naked eye.
Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 was not a giant comet, but if you did the math – which astronomers did at the time – you would know just what a catastrophic impact it would have.
Don’t worry that you haven’t read every last thing because A) nobody else has and B) most of it you don’t need anyway.
I try and learn also from other people’s mistakes by just watching and talking to them.
The use of digital tools might be narrowing people but I think it also has something to do with an overly global and overly sort of flattened form of sharing on the internet where people don’t have a chance to build up local bubbles.
For some of its car models, Audi has provided a free augmented reality app that allows an owner to get information about a certain component simply by pointing a mobile device at it.
How culpable is the U.S.? Should aid be cut off?
Thought experiment: can we communicate across species in a way that might facilitate a greater deeper relationship between us? Experimental philosopher Jonathon Keats gave it a shot.
Taking the fireflies-in-a-jar concept to an entirely new level, a team of undergraduates has made it to the finals of a scientific competition with their BioBulb project. The secret ingredient: Genetically-engineered E. coli.
Currently undergoing trials in rural parts of Kenya is PEEK, an app that turns a phone into a portable optician’s device capable of capturing, storing, and e-mailing eye images.
Thanks in part to a successful crowdfunding campaign, backers of the DrinkSavvy line — glasses, cups, straws and stirrers that react to the presence of common “date-rape” drugs — will start receiving the product next month.
Google has always been alert to the danger of advertising and even accepting advertising at all because it might corrupt or lead the people running the search engine to want to corrupt the results in favor of advertisers.
What Larry Page and Sergey Brin have in common is a real intellectual curiosity. They want to understand how the world works.
A hawk is somebody who wants to keep all the data and a dove is somebody who says no, we need to anonymize it.
When I joined Google I really believed that they would be out of business within a year just because a lot of startups failed, most startups fail. And so for me it was about getting that experience.
As we take seats at that table we have different perspectives.
Unfortunately the way that a lot of people do it is they take the most interesting job that happens to be randomly offered to them over the phone every several years.
I’m really not fit to be an employee of any other enterprise and that’s how I ended up as an entrepreneur.
Here’s what two excellent sociologists have concluded about marriage today: Thanks to falling working-class wages, the outsourcing of American manufacturing, the thinning of company benefits, and the rise of part-time […]
I made every possible first-year mistake that a first-year manager can make.
A paper titled “Welcome to My Brain” has been published in the journal Qualitative Inquiryby Sage which is so unintelligible that it is baffling beyond belief. Unfortunately, the paper is […]
If there is no drama in a meeting it has no purpose for being.
I’m not sure we can harness desire into identity in a way that doesn’t do some violence to it.
If I’m looking to find out what is the case with the war and whether the war is legitimate, I’m probably not going to be fully satisfied with the New York Times or theWashington Post or Fox News or CNN.
Is there something left of the human that can’t be dehumanized and what is this power to humanize or to dehumanize?
Cameras are part of war-waging and they’re also part of the way in which a general population assesses what is happening.
Americans should be aware that sugars subtly creep into their diets through fruit juices, caffeinated beverages, sweetened breakfast foods, and especially sodas. They can, and do, add up.
A new report shows worrisome incompetence among Air Force nuclear missile launch officers.