“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
-Albert Camus
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In more creative mobile tech news: Kinsa consists of the thermometer — which attaches to the headphone jack — and an app that tells a user the local “health weather” as well as their temperature.
One hundred years ago, your doctor was responsible for your health. Now, thanks to technology, we’re at the point where we can all be the CEO of our own health.
In Three War Stories, David Mamet explores redemption and forgiveness in the context of conflict. In The Redwing, excerpted here, a 19th Century Secret Service naval officer recounts his own transformations during the course of his service and imprisonment.
According to some experts, trans fats won’t be that difficult to replace.
Music is not always the compliant hand servant, the maid servant of text. It can operate according to its own rules and it can function quite differently.
Does Ban Ki-moon see China as the next superpower? The General Secretary of the United Nations sent his warm greetings to Beijing Forum 2013, a governmental prestige project – thereby […]
“People as old as 90 who actively acquire new interests that involve learning retain their ability to learn. But if we stop taxing the nucleus basalis, it begins to dry up.”
UCLA scientists have created an imaging system that can display particles as tiny as 100 nanometers via a smartphone’s camera. Such a system could be useful for detecting certain viruses, such as HIV.
A new study demonstrates how a group can complement and “average out” one’s unattractive idiosyncrasies.
Researchers used zinc oxide nanorods to create a solar cell, then played music to determine the sound waves’ effect on performance. Pop and rock music bumped up efficiency levels by 40 percent.
With help from NASA’s Kepler space telescope, astronomers have calculated that of all the stars in our galaxy that resemble our sun, one in five hosts an Earth-sized planet at a distance that allows for liquid water at the surface.
Engineer Alex Hornstein is the creator of Tiny Pipes, a system that’s turned out to be a bargain for residents of one off-the-grid Philippine island.
One company intends to shake things up by making images of our world’s surface available to all.
As the bears begin their northward migration, researchers have added a snapshot option to their live feeds and developed a smartphone app. The hope is that visitors — both online and in person — will capture and share images.
Toronto is tasked with navigating the Scylla and Charybdis of finding a leader who respects the value of a taxpayer dollar, but who also doesn’t smoke crack. It should not be so difficult.
In the twentieth century like-mindedness was an asset. But today the challenges that face society cannot be solved by one kind of intelligence.
It’s beginning to seem pretty clear that CRC is, at least in part, a bacterial disease.
Ecological footprint measurements, as currently constructed and presented, are so misleading as to preclude their use in any serious science or policy context.
Comes a time when you realize, you’re basically a straight-up Luddite, or at best the loyal opposition to the social media age, and you might as well embrace that and […]
In addition to its humor, quality drawing, and thoughtfulness, the thing that separated the strip and its maker was the refusal to license and merchandize the work.
“Our dominance is assured, at least for a while, by the excruciating nested complexity of the biological components-within-components-within-components of the human brain.”
By entering instructions on its touchscreen, the 2014 Nissan Altima will send texts and Facebook updates while you’re driving, so you don’t have to.
Lee Smolin: I used to think that my job as a physicist was this kind of mystical transcendent undertaking to transcend the daily reality and experience of the world and discover this timeless representation of the world where the truth really was.
Francis Collins: we need to be prepared at any moment to defend the choices we’ve made as having had the best chance of benefiting real people out there who are counting on the NIH to use their money wisely.
Kepler-78b, which is slightly larger than Earth, is the most similar in size to the Earth of any exoplanet yet directly discovered. However, the similarities end there.
I believe imagination was a God-given tool says, Rainn Wilson in the XPRIZE Insights video below. Wilson sees arts education, therefore, as an empowering tool, which “helps define a person for who they are in their integral self.”
As Adobe recovers from a security breach involving information from 38 million active users, a security researcher has identified the most common passwords employed. At the top of the list: “123456.”
I came to the full realization that there is no formula for life. And a perfect job, a house, a business or a spouse is an illusion of our mind trying to bring order to a life that has none.
Members and supporters of the hacktivist group are participating in Million Mask March protests around the world today (Nov. 5) to “defend humanity” from unjust corporations and governments.