1. Extreme Weather is the New Normal Happy Spring! That means it’s time to expect winter storms. That’s the new normal, according to National Weather Service Director Louis Uccellini. “We have observed […]
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“Having strong opinions is part of the joy of being alive, and loving people in spite of those strong opinions is one of the other joys of being alive.”
Solar power could very well be responsible for over a third of our energy supply by the year 2060.
Ilya Naishuller, a 29-year old Russian director and front man for the Moscow punk band Biting Elbows, won the Internet this week. His band’s latest stunning music video, Motherf*cker, which […]
NASA has announced that its most recent Mars rover, Curiosity, recently found evidence of substantial water stores present on the planet’s surface billions of years ago.
Dr. Jay Parkinson, a resident of New York City, recently began an online practice that now offers 24/7 medical services to 500 customers from 30 companies, saving time and money.
Unable to run controlled experiments on a distant star the way terrestrial scientists work with lab mice, astronomers have begun attempting to recreate stellar conditions on Earth.
Today Drunk Tank Pink: And Other Unexpected Forces that Shape How We Think, Feel and Behavegoes on sale. The author is NYU Assistant Professor of Marketing Adam Alter. I came […]
The strange birth of America’s two ‘radio nations’
The $250,000 seven-meter truck was unveiled in Cape Town last week, and is designed to reach the 6 in 10 sub-Saharan Africans who live in rural areas without easy access to medical treatment.
A new study that examined 30 years’ worth of data on cliff swallows shows that “vehicular selection” contributed to a drastic drop in the number of birds killed by cars during the period.
“Society 2.0” — the label writer Richard Hollingham gives to future space colonies — will probably be a lot messier and more complicated than what’s been modeled via the “Star Trek” franchise.
Is there any meaningful correlation between guns and violence? A survey of scientific studies reveals some surprising — not to mention controversial — insights.
Why did you start a business? To pursue your passion? To make money? That’s all fine, but your passion will go unrealized and you’ll never get rich if you’re unable […]
Just a few weeks ago, it seemed like Google Glass was the new “It” technology – a technology so cool that it was suddenly socially acceptable to show up with these […]
On the morning of March 18, 1990, two thieves dressed as Boston police walked into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and 81 minutes later walked out with an estimated $500 […]
The isotope has been used to power spacecraft for decades, but the US had been getting its supply from Russia since 1988. That agreement ended in 2010, and now some scientists say the stockpile is “alarmingly low.”
One architect advocates for combining a surplus of dead trees with new technologies to create buildings of up to 30 stories that will shelter future city residents.
“Whining” is an insult that gets tossed around frequently and casually today, mostly between women. I rarely hear it leveled by men against women, women against men, or by men […]
iFixit CEO and co-founder Kyle Wiens says that as technology grows more advanced, the ability of individual owners to modify the items they’ve bought becomes more difficult, and existing copyright laws don’t make it any easier.
There’s a popular myth in the American yoga community that Indian vegetarianism began as a spiritual response to humanity’s place in the cosmos. The concept of ahimsa, or non-violence, is […]
My career as a reporter spanned a remarkable time in local TV news, of both incredible journalistic creativity and commitment, and a profit-driven abandonment of journalism’s civic responsibility to […]
The Health eHeart Study will use apps, sensors, and similar devices to collect real-time information on subjects. Those interested can also sign up on the study’s Web site without a doctor visit, a first for such a major study.
An advisory manual drawn up by NATO is the first to attempt to bring the realm of cyberattacks into line with international law and treaties.
Cody Wilson and his company, Defense Distributed, can now sell and distribute firearms, but he says he’s going to wait for an add-on that will let him offer a broader range of products.
There has been a lot of tragically depressing news regarding academic copyright recently. Aaron Swartz committed suicide after being hounded for downloading academic papers and now Indian students are being denied access […]
More than 75 percent of signers to an online petition live outside the US, and a number of those live in countries with active Internet censorship. They say Google Reader is their only pathway to uncensored material.
The ban is the result of a lawsuit filed by publishers who say textbook portions were illegally copied. Last week, a letter signed by over 300 academics asked them to drop the case.
As of Monday, a new law went into effect that gave people in certain types of live-in relationships the same rights that legally married couples can claim in the event of a breakup.
Our displays of techno-freedom are turning more and more of us into dependents: Apart from specific job categories, technological advances in products and services, along with greater outsourcing opportunities and […]