The amounts of copper readily found in the water we drink, food we eat, and vitamins we take, likely play a key role in the development of Alzheimer’s disease.
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“It’s as if someone were out there making up pointless jobs just for the sake of keeping us all working.”
A genetic test to be marketed directly to consumers will test an individual’s genetic make up to determine how he or she will react to prescription drugs.
The ethics of “first contact” was the subject of a panel discussion at last week’s Starship Congress, where attendees hashed out the logistics and consequences of becoming an interstellar civilization.
When we think of “hacking” the human body, most of us probably think of something along the lines of Tim Ferriss and his concept of the 4-Hour Body — little […]
A new paper in the Journal of Neuroscience claims that the relatively simple optical illusion pictured here can reflect brain alpha waves.
The success of Paris’ program has helped to make it an EV mecca, and similar programs are now being planned for other locations, including Indianapolis. However, it’s unclear whether they will increase EV popularity overall.
If you’ve been reading this blog for any amount of time you’ll probably be familiar with the name Sokal from the Sokal affair, the scandal in 1996 in which physicist […]
That would make it about ten times older than the oldest accepted examples of cartography
How the perfect American Confucianism ought to be constructed BEIJING – There ruminates a discussion, from east to west, as to how the perfect American Confucianismought to be constructed. Should […]
American and European researchers are currently testing a procedure that uses generic fertility drugs and simpler equipment and could end up costing less than US$300.
You can’t pick your fans. If you could, nobody would pick Adolf Hitler. The frustrated painter turned Führer and genocidist enjoyed any art that embodied in some form for him […]
South Korean researchers unveiled the aptly-named — and extremely expensive — Armadillo-T prototype earlier this week. When folded, it takes up only one-third of a 5-meter parking space.
In The Power of Myth, a book-length interview conducted by Bill Moyers with Joseph Campbell, the mythologist said ‘It’s the Christ on the cross that’s lovable.’ He was responding to […]
Guest post by Todd Hurst Crossposted at: http://www.tmhurst.net/the-building-tension-of-education/ I had the opportunity to be part of a statewide STEM meeting recently in which one of the presenters discussed a school project […]
Two Chalmers University of Technology students designed a nearly-all-steel chair with alternating seat positions that give users better leverage when navigating down unpaved roads and around other obstacles.
University of Washington researchers hope to create a battery-free Internet of Things by developing communication devices that transmit data with the help of existing ambient electromagnetic energy.
One spritz of Sprayable Energy onto the skin delivers the caffeine equivalent of a quarter-cup’s worth of coffee. Developers Ben Yu and Deven Soni say they want to pitch it to people who are trying to regulate their intake.
Now a few years into Peter Thiel’s experiment, 60 fellows have received $100,000 grants to skip college for two years. We’re now starting to see some of the results come in.
Images from NOAA’s decommissioned GOES-12 satellite that provided “eye in the sky” monitoring of weather events since 2003 have been assembled in the video below.
Here are some of the my reflections, based on more than three decades of teaching, on how to think about the place of liberal education in America. That place, for […]
Creative Destruction. When you first hear this term, it seems somewhat counterintuitive or oxymoronic. On a second go round; you might wonder why we need to create destruction or why […]
One article talks about the declining rates of procreation. Another contemplates job mobility. When I pull the fragments together into one tableau I’m left with the question: How it attachment […]
First launched in 2009, the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) spacecraft has been asleep in polar orbit for two years. Next month, it’ll be turned back on to help locate potentially dangerous near-Earth objects.
Has the age of zero-sum competition come to an end? Can we learn to recognize collaborative learning as our primary task from cradle to grave? In this G+ hangout for […]
More of them are appearing on some Kentucky streets as residents look for gas-friendlier alternatives. Also, most states already have laws allowing them to share certain roads with regular traffic. Writer Eric Jaffe asks: Why golf carts and not electric cars?
Ultimately we’re never going to get people used to the rate of exponential change. Humans will always be somewhat resistant to it.
Sea anemones, which provide shelter for the clownfish and other fish species, are dealing with the same ecological threats as coral reefs as water temperatures continue to rise.
My research shows that for each additional job in a high-tech company in a local community, you create about five additional jobs outside high-tech in that community.