“China has allowed the Yuan to appreciate in value against the dollar and Euro and other major currencies,” Daniel Altman says, “and now there are very few analysts who would say that it’s artificially depressed.”
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These cars are infamously quiet at low speeds, which could cause problems for pedestrians. Singing and whistling sounds aren’t allowed, though: It has to mimic the sound of a car.
The “soft skills” associated with improv are actually the “hard skills” because there’s not an equation to be a great leader.
Next week, artist Adam Harvey will exhibit a line of clothing that he says will protect its wearer from invasive surveillance technology.
Every year since 1967, the world’s technology companies gather at the International Consumer Electronics Show to exhibit the latest flashy products they’ve been working on. For the tech nuts who […]
New research with children in Germany confirms similar research in other countries: Extracurricular music study — more so than similar study in other subjects — improves verbal memory.
The idea of forgery resonates more than ever today in a culture in which “the open exchange of ideas has been rebranded as piracy.”
You may have heard that the video blogger “Thunderf00t”* recently published a video titled “Why ‘Feminism’ is poisoning Atheism“, which he’s been sending to the heads of atheist and skeptical […]
Cameras attached to the underside of the International Space Station will deliver video with a resolution of 1 meter (3.3 feet), which is sharp enough to see buildings, trees, and groups of people.
One of the hits at this week’s Consumer Electronics Show, the device is a flexible high-resolution tablet that feels, and in some ways acts, like a piece of paper.
BIG THINKER Steven Mazie does well to criticize the complacency of Stephen Asma. Asma, citing obvious facts of evolutionary psychology, observes that our natural powers of knowing and loving are limited. […]
Artist Ai Weiwei sees his ongoing battles with the Chinese government as a matter of personal responsibility to “look your enemy in the face and tell them what you’re fighting for.”
Despite being the most successful Kickstarter project to date, rollout of the smartwatch was beset by development delays. The first units should begin shipping later this month.
The amount of solar energy being produced by solar panels is doubling every 2 years.
As a possible solution to the problem of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, researchers in Germany have created a prototype of a garment with sensors integrated into the fabric.
Imagine if nude women in fashion magazines, action movies, and music videos, suddenly screamed out against political corruption, debilitating income inequality, or oppression by religious leaders. Femen, a group of […]
Flower Power is a sensor that, when inserted into a plant’s pot, monitors its health and sends information, including alerts, to a smartphone or tablet.
No doubt everyone has seen the two-part Piers Morgan interview of conspiracy-weaver, gun “enthusiast” and upcoming thespian, Alex Jones. The interview is truly bizarre: firstly, for making so many people […]
Jean-Jacques Rousseau might say that Congress has become more and more unpopular as Americans have begun to appreciate its basic illegitimacy as a law-making institution.
Announced this Monday, the possible planet is just one of 461 new candidates, out of a total of over 2,700, located by NASA’s Kepler space telescope since its 2009 launch.
Researchers say two trees commonly found in India produce seeds whose oils can be converted to a biodiesel that’s on par with versions made from biomass or food crops.
Researchers report that the easily-created material could help clean up contaminated nuclear sites, cut hydraulic fracturing costs, and reinvigorate mining of rare-earth metals in the US.
I just finished reading Rework by Jason Fried and David Heinemeir Hansson. Although it has a business slant, there are many great links to school leadership. Here are but a […]
A symbolic state of emergency was recently declared to draw attention to a population that’s about seven times the size it should be. Towns are offering a variety of incentives to hunters to help reduce numbers.
When we think of technology’s early adopters, we tend to think of the young hipsters in tech hubs like New York or San Francisco, testing out all the cool new apps, gadgets […]
A centerpiece of Mastermind is that the brain operates using two contrasting systems, which Konnikova terms System Holmes and System Watson.
It wasn’t your imagination: The average high temperature in the contiguous US, 55.3 degrees Fahrenheit, beat the previous record, set in 1998, by a whole degree.
Your boss is like a mirror, reflecting back at you “your own uncontrolled states of mind.”
“A painter, a composer, and a poet went on a road trip,” begins one print advertisement for the MoMA’s new exhibition Inventing Abstraction: 1910-1925. Although it sounds like the start […]