In order to combat traffic jams and choking pollution, China will attempt to decrease the amount of cars in its major cities by imposing stricter limits on automobile purchases.
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Obstacles are beginning to emerge in China’s massive urbanization plan, which will see 250 million farmers migrate from rural settings to urban population centers over the next decade.
There is no circumstance that people could possibly contrive for ourselves which would constitute “having it all”.
A little bit of game theory suggests how Edward Snowden’s odyssey might end.
Every company has both information and knowledge. What’s the difference? Knowledge is something that’s actionable and that generates value for the receiver. Information, on the other hand, is not actionable. […]
Here is a brilliant column by 11-year old Olympia Nelson on provocative selfie shots on social media. It’s valuable to hear this world described from the vantage point of someone […]
Murder, they wrote. The suspect? Media mogul, sports agent, and rapper Jay-Z. The victim? Performance art. The accomplices? Performance artists!? When Jay-Z decided to shoot the video for his song […]
Japanese scientists have found that listening to sad music may actually evoke positive emotions, even though the experience of sadness itself is widely considered to be negative emotion.
Making the leap from renting to buying isn’t always what it seems. Homeowners spend less time on leisure activities with friends and report that they derived some pain from homeownership.
Opposition to the ideas of others is too often framed in terms of cynicism, resulting in the objector being labeled as steadfastly against action, progress, change, and other forms taken to be universally good.
New research completed at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has identified a specific gene that may help manage our skill level for organizing things logically.
More important than the effect power has on its beholder is the person’s intentions, outlook and values. That power corrupts tells us more about the person who held it than about an indelible nature of power.
The history lesson in Zimmerman’s acquittal in the murder of Trayvon Martin
Researchers at Harvard Business School have found that small mobile devices which close your posture off to the world also close your attention, weakening you ability to engage the world around you.
A new study published in the journal Environmental Research Letters found that air pollution, caused by fine particles capable of penetrating deep into the lungs, is responsible for 2.1 million deaths annually.
Reincarnation is bunk.
Even using unqualified life expectancy figures, the US is falling behind other nations, but we should not be blinded by our attempt to increase longevity without a concern for quality of life.
All that it takes to cope with the death of a loved one is the philosophical habit of turning easily understood ideas into the more difficult practice of how you perceive the world day by day.
A study of 159 men and women enrolled in cognitive behavioral therapy has found that those patients who believed in God were more likely to receive the benefits of the therapy.
I think you have a very different perspective on the future when you consider the exponential growth of information technology.
My prediction is, in a few decades, we will come to accept entities that are not biological as conscious.
We will have abundance in terms of knowledge and equality and we won’t have the bottom billion anymore, but what I call the rising billion.
And as someone who has a really terrible driving record I can’t wait for autonomous cars to come out.
Religious Americans are better neighbors and better citizens in a way.
In metallurgy, an alloy is a mixture of two different metals that has different properties than either of those metals taken separately.
Ideas spread around not just through human word-of-mouth.
The easiest way to get Americans, in particular, onboard programming is by frightening the bejesus out of them.
Scientists at MIT are hoping to map the 86 billion connected neurons in your brain, and have developed a browser game for you to help them accomplish this.
Later this year, transportation officials plan to set aside one “singles” car on its trains for a fixed amount of time each week…and yes, they’re doing it to help busy people find mates.
Let the numbers do the talking. 2.5 million children die of malnutrition every year. Meanwhile, we produce 27% more food per person today than we did 50 years ago when […]