Guest post by Kevin Flora. What does it mean to “recruit” anyway? Multiple definitions exist for the word “recruit,” but educational institutions tend to pigeon-hole themselves into a single definition […]
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Literally: An eight-foot sculpture outside the building records complaints, which are then played over speakers installed in the offices of the citizens’ affairs bureau. Useful suggestions are stored, while the rest become mood music.
A new study states that men who work in female-dominated professions perform 25 percent more chores than those who work in male-dominated professions.
One of the many paradoxes of time is that it doesn’t flow by smoothly. Although we agree that time is objective—we don’t set our clocks arbitrarily after all—it feels as […]
In response to a 2010 TED talk by gaming researcher Jane McGonigal, an organization has emerged that will develop in-game plug-ins giving players ways they can assist with real-world disaster relief.
The word entrepreneur is tossed around a lot today, but it’s meaning changes depending on the context. The concept was first introduced in 1723 by French economist Richard Cantillon but […]
This week the International Astronomical Union, long responsible for giving planets sexy names like “HD 189733b,” surprised many by opening the process to the general public. Not surprisingly, there are some rules involved. (Sit down, Trekkies.)
A smartphone uses up a lot more energy than most people think. Multiply that by a billion or more, and include all the other objects that use the Internet. A new paper asks: Where is all that energy coming from?
Originally posted at www.toddnorton.me Guest post by Todd Norton A small victory on the second day of school this year still has me smiling. It was something very simple, a […]
Once you get past all of the screaming teenagers in this video, you will actually hear some inspiring words from Ashton Kutcher. That’s right.
There are over 200 channel choices in the average home. That’s an age of choice. That’s pretty exciting.
Embrace change. Embrace what that future is. Don’t fear it because that’s your biggest upside.
The key fundamental aspect of being a good business leader is that you want to initiate.
This South African case raises many questions. An HIV-positive Aids counsellor, who was convicted of attempted murder for having unprotected sex with his unsuspecting girlfriend, has lost his appeal... (SAPA) […]
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.
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.