A new image editing method will have graphic designers cheering and weeping in equal measure. The new technique lets you take a two-dimensional image, and with as little as three […]
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Growing up, I fell in love with Science Fiction watching reruns of Star Trek, the version now known to fans as “The Original Series.” The storylines and (then state of […]
Last week, game developer Rovio launched Angry Birds Playground, an educational curriculum based on the Finnish national model and targeted towards kindergartners.
Have you seen the Chipotle Grill animated video “The Scarecrow”? More than four million people have, since it was first published last week. It’s a cry against unsustainable industrial […]
Citing the increase in abortions of female fetuses, students Sonya Davey, Samir Devalaraja and Neil Davey propose that companies with patents for genital-blurring ultrasound software file them in India, where sex determination is officially illegal.
We will be able to enhance the natural sensory capabilities that humans have, and I think this is where technology and the brain have a very fertile meeting ground.
Vienna’s use of “gender mainstreaming” — which takes the different experiences of men and women into account when making public policy decisions — has helped to make the city more livable and accessible for everyone.
The “highly unusual” ruling from a Seville judge reflects the times, as the divorcing couple cited various economic issues that prevented them from living separately.
Inspirational leaders understand and can scale the distinction between doing something and, as capitalists, making money versus doing something in order to make money.
What religions want to do is remind us of how kind we want to be.
Being only 12, Agrawal’s version of an iRobot is not designed to do household chores but rather, deliver potato chips.
Manil Suri gives a full-throated defense of math as a field that is “about ideas above anything else.”
Thanks to the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission’s Wide Angle Camera (WAC), a high resolution virtual Moon rotation movie has now been composed.
The last disruptive innovation in the building industry happened in 1883 when Warren Johnson invented the thermostat, helping to launch the entire building control industry. This was 30 years after […]
Guest post by Kevin Flora It’s not every day that a student comes to you asking for advice, wanting to bounce an idea around, or just has a random question. […]
When things change dramatically we resist it at first and then we adapt and then we love the change.
The following letter was sent by Larry Summers to President Obama, in which he withdrew his name for consideration to be Chairman of the Federal Reserve.
If there’s something you really want to believe, that’s what you should question the most.
My Facebook feed is nothing but homemaking and my Twitter feed is nothing but “Have you heard about this story on Tech Crunch?”
Consciousness is essentially the company president that has to arbitrate all the different mechanisms.
The city of Utrecht will embark on a study involving a small group of mentally ill addicts and a variant of marijuana that’s said to have anti-anxiety and anti-psychotic properties.
Clean spaces may be too conventional for the release of creative ideas.
Pre-birth nutrition contributes to the “programming” of health, well being, brain development and mental performance and that certain nutrients are important to this process.
The power and agility of our brain was by no means necessary to hunt and kill animals, so why did the thinking organ become such an overachiever?
The public gains made by AI, such as beating chess champions and winning Jeopardy tournaments, have ironically also demonstrated its limits.
The Information Age has made humans more managers of knowledge than vessels for it.
You never intended to eat the whole bag of chips, or smoke the entire pack of cigarettes; to keep participating in the mindless WhatsApp fight with your friend, or continue […]
It’s a good season for subterfuge. While the rest of the world is watching Syria – or, more precisely, the omnishambles following Obama’s “red line” in the Syrian sand – […]
The average American changes their career about four times.
The very idea that we can out-behave the competition, that we can be excellent and excel in our behavior, that behavior is the source of advantage is a brand new idea.