As we get older, our brain is more of a lean machine that is optimized to do things well. The tradeoff is that we are “not nearly as good at learning something new.”
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New research suggests that gut bacteria may very well play a role in the development of rheumatoid arthritis and also underscores the importance of gut bacteria (which outnumber human cells ten-to-one) in keeping our bodies healthy.
Francis Fukuyama famously wrote in a 1992 book that we’d reached “The End of History.” He meant that the major ideological conflict of the 20th century, between Communism and democracy, […]
“There’s no such thing as a stupid question.” We’d now like to present eleven more, courtesy of the same esteemed panel of “logic-dodging” jokesters over at Reddit that came up with the original list.
Megan Smith talks about the role technologies like mobile and the Internet play in giving a voice to billions of people who up until this point had none.
There are potentially a lot more discoveries to be made within our oceans, with as little as 5% of it explored so far.
I would not want to look forward to a culture where science lost and religious faith became the dominating force for truth. I would not want to live in a culture where faith lost and science, with all of its reductionism and its materialism became the sole source of truth.
What’s the evidence for the idea that God exists or doesn’t exist?
The so-called ‘Valley of Death’ is where a lot of research projects die.
William Butler Yates wrote, “There is no singing school, but studying monuments of its own magnificence.”
The best argument for teaching poetry is to put a three-year-old or a four-year-old and read Dr. Seuss, or Robert Louis Stevenson, and to feel how the child and you are engaging in something that’s really basic to the animal, which is passing on in these rhythmic ways, something that came from somewhere.
We use our own body to make poetry. There is no fiddle, there is no paint, it’s the air that comes out of your body shaped in ways that have evolved and that are controlled by our brain.
Cloud filmmaking is the exciting collaboration of artists and citizens and people who just want to make something together.
I feel women really need to be running their own companies so they can set new ground rules for how you can be a mother, a good mother and also participate in society.
The Web is about collaboration. The web is about empathy. The web is about multitasking. These are all qualities that women are very good at.
We need to push decision making authority as far down the organization as possible. Then people can try new things.
Present clear, crisp evidence that people can believe about whether an idea is working.
Get straight to the criticism, but express it very positively: “Wouldn’t it be even better if we did X, wouldn’t it be even better if we did Y?”
“Eclipse watchers” have been dying to catch a glimpse of this image, captured in clear skies in central Africa, which depicts the Sun’s total eclipse on November 3.
Over the short haul, they all work. Even four grapefruits and a prune a day will do the job for a week or two. The real issue is stabilizing your weight. That means forever.
For the first time ever we have seen an equal balance of men and women on a NASA program. You could say that this new development is one big leap for women.
If you know only one work of modern art, it’s probably The Scream. More people know that “Mona Lisa” of modern angst than know the name of the artist that […]
As Neil deGrasse Tyson explains in “Dark Universe,” the Hayden Planetarium’s new space show at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, humans understand only 5% of the known universe. […]
Designed by a team of University of Pennsylvania students, the Titan Arm just received a $45,000 award from the James Dyson Foundation.
University of Cincinnati researchers have designed technology that channels sunlight to dark interior rooms through grids of tiny adjustable cells. The energy can also be stored to power electrical systems.
We can make a choice to say “I love this technology, this extension of my soul, of my being and I don’t need to be on all the time.”
Charlie Harry Francis, owner of UK-based Lick Me I’m Delicious, has created many unusual frozen treats, but this is the first that uses synthesized jellyfish proteins to produce a unique glow. Unfortunately, the stuff’s not cheap.
We haven’t fundamentally made work something different than it is, but we’ve really got people to rethink how they’re doing the work itself.
The English town of Milton Keynes plans to replace its current public transportation system with 100 electric pods that customers can call and pay for using a smartphone.
How can a more realistic outlook on the 1950s shed light on the times we are living through today?