Psychological Science in the Public Interest evaluated ten techniques for improving learning, ranging from mnemonics to highlighting and came to some surprising conclusions.
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Rather than admiring from afar the protesters in India, and congratulating the national leaders who have begun to address sexual violence in the U.S. military, we need to confront the broader problem of misogyny in American legal culture.
If any painting could be labeled “not safe for work,” it’s Gustave Courbet’s 1866 L’Origine du monde (in English, The Origin of the World; and, once again, NSFW). Banned even […]
On February 15th, the people of planet Earth will receive a wake-up call from our Solar System. Asteroid 2012 DA14, discovered just 1 year ago, will narrowly miss hitting the […]
Imagine that the president of the United States could legally order the preemptive killing of any American citizen he deemed a potential threat to the country. A Justice Department white […]
There is a lot of fear, uncertainty and doubt in today’s world. North Korea might hit us with nukes. The stock market might crash at any moment. The U.S. government […]
Ludwig van Beethoven is credited with saying, “Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.” And while some may argue the point, there’s certainly been a good bit […]
We are very good at generating data. We are just learning how to utilize it, but the mobile health revolution is one of the most promising applications we have seen in this field.
Scientists at Stanford University have created a tiny probe that emits light when inserted into a living cell without damaging or disrupting the cell or its functions.
Let Valentine’s Day be a time to reflect on our love affair with technology. Are school leaders in this relationship because they believe in the power of technology to enhance […]
Later this month, a filmmaker will screen a movie for which sensors on selected audience members will determine which scenes will appear on screen.
A Microsoft-funded project is bringing wi-fi to remote areas of Kenya using solar power and the bandwidth being freed up as TV goes from analog to digital. The country could find itself “in the global vanguard of white-space roll-out.”
Scientists at King’s College London have developed a method that delivers vaccines through the skin using a dissolvable microneedle array.
The Intangible: Earn Trust. Be Relatable. Be Influential. Be Creative. Level Status. Resolve Conflict. Leverage Talent. Build Strong Teams. The Tangible: “Yes, And…”Outside of an awfully good oxymoron, and with […]
Developed by a Spanish team, it combines conventional GPS with additional sensors. The increased accuracy makes it ideal for driverless cars of the future.
Some good news for once: The European Science Agency reports that the hole is now smaller than it’s been at any time in the last decade.
One mining company speculates it’s in the low nine figures; astronomers think that’s a stretch. There’s no way to be sure, of course, but its Friday fly-by has both groups thinking about future close encounters.
According to recent FDA data compiled by a Pew Charitable Trusts project, the amount appears to be growing while the government “dithers with voluntary approaches to regulation.”
For the first time, and only until February 25, the public is invited to submit and vote on names for the objects currently known as P4 and P5.
There’s a moment in Keith Richards’ recent memoir when he pauses his tale of addiction and debauchery to reflect that, once a certain number of stories about his excesses had been told […]
The most common stars in our galaxy were too small to be seen until recently. A new study suggests that there’s a good chance that they support Earth-like planets.
Like many Americans of a certain age, for me, Andy Kaufman (shown above) was first, and in some ways forever, Latka Gravas, the lovable garage mechanic with the endearing misuse […]
American Express and Twitter have announced a partnership that allows cardholders to make purchases using special hashtags in their tweets.
Why does the Purple Line in this alternate-universe railway map terminate in Quincy, Illinois?
Our attitude toward the pathologizing may be more destructive than the pathologizing itself.—James Hillman, Re-Visioning Psychology Trauma affects all of us. Types of trauma—physical, emotional, violent, intrusive, social, or the […]
The company has announced a deal with Gilbarco Veeder-Root, which operates pay-at-the-pump software at convenience stores across the US.
Developers have created software that helps users — specifically, crowdsourced workers — locate and mark challenges for those with limited mobility, and generates a report to send to the appropriate local agency.
The New York Times reports that an MIT statistics professor has found that flying on a commercial jet has never been safer. Not that it was ever that much […]
So anyone who’s ever really thought about love knows that our techno-liberated world is pretty weak on talking about love and death. We’re either too vulgar or too vague. It’s not […]
Kevin Dutton walks through the characteristics of psychopathy, and how these behaviors play out in relationships.