As budget cuts hit NASA, the space agency will seek out international partners for a new manned mission that will take humans further into space than ever before.
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It was a good Valentine’s Day for advocates of same-sex marriage. A week ago, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a district court’s ruling that California’s Proposition 8 forbidding […]
Breathing air pollution is worse for your heart than your lungs, say scientists. A new study reveals that even one day’s exposure to chemicals in the air increases heart attack rates.
It’s February 15th, and while some readers may have woken up this morning in a haze of romantic bliss, others will have spent the day asking their pets where it […]
Everyone in politics pays lip service to data. “Our opponents say X but the facts are plainly Y, which they would admit if they were not (pick one) deceived or […]
What’s the Big Idea? What Wikipedia is not, according to Wikipedia: a paper encylopedia, a dictionary, a publisher of original thought. A soapbox. A means of self promotion. A link […]
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, actively dislike basketball, or subscribe to Time Warner Cable in New York City, you have probably heard that a phenomenon called Linsanity has […]
Iran’s nuclear development may sound dangerous, but so are the U.S. imposed trade sanctions against Iran.
Every Wednesday, Dr. Michio Kaku answers reader questions about physics and futuristic science. If you have a question for Dr. Kaku, just post it in the comments section below and […]
Casablanca, kissing, the giddy exchange of bodily fluids, the pressing of the flesh—It’s all so 20th century. Today there doesn’t need to be sex in your sex anymore. The “virtual,” […]
Scientists have agreed on boosting power levels at the Large Hadron Collider by 14 percent. 2012 should settle once and for all the question of the Higgs boson’s existence.
Beneath the Greenland’s icepack, there are untold riches in the form of exploitable energy. The country also provides a pathway to the Arctic which is sought by China, among others.
Energy efficiency means cheaper energy. Cheaper energy means having more money to spend on energy. See the problem? What we really must accept is slower economic growth.
Just as Francis Fukuyama once predicted the End of History, are we now facing a sort of technological end of history? Has truly radical innovation been forever replaced by incremental […]
Their paths were similar, but the outcomes were far from the same
Modern art takes itself much too seriously. Even the Pop artists often took the fun out of whatever they touched—a reverse Midas touch rendering even comedy gold into dross. Andy […]
Editors’ Note: It’s too late to heed Mark Card’s advice (below) for Valentine’s 2012. But you’ve got a whole year to save up for two bottles of Tokaji Eszencia for Valentine’s 2013 […]
Harvard Business School professor Robert Kaplan says if you want to get promoted “you need to work starting day one on developing a successor.”
The obvious solution to the distraction and shallow thinking that accompanies too much Internet is switching off. But that’s not a realistic option nowadays. Here’s how to plug in better.
To commemorate Valentine’s Day Google altered its logo today by embedding an animated video of a cute love story. Most of the video depicts a guy and a girl romance, […]
There is no shortage of effort in the United States today to infuse school leadership teams with the knowledge, skills and abilities to create improvements in schools. But one example […]
Xi Jinping, China’s presidential hopeful, pays a visit to the White House.
By the end of this year, there will be more mobile-connected devices than humans, said Cisco in its Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Update. There will be 10 million devices by 2016.
Francis Fukuyama argues the intensity of conflict during the Warring States period in China created incentives for people to abandon kinship-based relationships in favor of new, merit-based institutions. This led to the formation of the State as we recognize it.
The abundance of choice offered by online dating acts as an extension of capitalistic culture. We now approach relationships like a buffet table, hungry to satiate only our own desires.
It used to be that if you went to an elite school you didn’t have access to the best minds unless you were physically in their presence. That is not […]
At the 2012 World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos last week, a record 2,600 global leaders discussed a frenetic mix of economic and social issues facing the global community. […]
Western organizations have big, big plans for the penises of millions of African men. They are to be clipped, and in short order. In Tanzania alone there is a plan […]
This seems to be the year that the truth finally comes out about a lot of the myths in which the general public has had an enduring attachment. I don’t […]
Like climate change or poverty, political polarization in the United States may itself be a “wicked” problem, not something we are going to solve or end over the next decade, […]