Two European carpooling sites recently gained the favor of venture capitalists, who point to years of declining car ownership independent of the current economic recession.
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Daniel Kahneman makes an important point, one rarely addressed so directly in academic circles – that the ego-clashes we tend to excuse among high-achievers are dangerously counterproductive when it comes to advancing human knowledge. He proposes adversarial collaboration as one alternative.
At Sunday’s elections, Venezuelans will use one of the most sophisticated and highest-ranked electronic voting systems in the Western Hemisphere. However, suspicions abound.
Facing slow growth in other countries, a variety of airlines and other aviation-related businesses are taking advantage of expanding African economies.
Focusing on what the materials have to teach us is a staple of design thinking, and a powerful mindset for anyone seeking to create anything with structural integrity.
This article was originally published on AlterNet. What kind of world would we have if a majority of the human race was atheist? To hear religious apologists tell it, the […]
After a certain level of income, money is not very effective in creating happiness. British economist Adair Turner argues that economic growth is not priority-number one.
Like many others, I watched a man shoot himself on “Live TV”, days after it went live. I watched Fox News anchor Shepard Smith react too late to an incident […]
How is it possible that even in a time when encyclopedic knowledge is available at our fingertips, we still get the facts wrong and often get them wrong in egregious fashion?
The field of neuroeconomics hoped to begin explaining human behavior in ways that could have predicted the financial crash of 2007, but such theories have not been forthcoming.
Despite the seductive fusion of evolutionary principles with modern neuroscience, our search for an ultimate explanation of human behavior is not likely to find solutions any time soon.
This past Friday I headed down to the Baltimore Book Festival, an annual three-day street fair full of readings, panels, small press exhibitions, and overstuffed bookshelves on city lawns. It […]
The broad philosophical differences between cultures, divided broadly into East and West categories, inform our responses to major life events, including our response to death.
By manipulating the communication abilities of a parasitic virus, geneticists have taken the first steps toward creating a biological Internet where natural processes can be augmented.
A team of medical researchers have created the first fully biodegradable electronic implants. The technology has already been used to help heal wounds before being absorbed by the body.
A collaboration between doctors and engineers at Virginia Tech has resulted in a new way to treat cancer. A needle just 40 microns thick can deliver chemotherapy and nanodrugs.
Despite the conventional wisdom that higher-ups suffer more pressure because they have more responsibility, new research concludes that its more stressful being on the bottom.
Nutritionists say kale—a vegetable in the Brassica family along with broccoli, cauliflower and cabbage—is full of vitamins and antioxidants that help to prevent cancer.
Soraya Chemaly’s Huffington Post blog thankfully speaks out against 12-yer-old slut memes and Facebook misogyny. This hatefulness in online social life is one reason why it troubles me to read […]
A second Mona Lisa? One made even earlier than the one hanging in the Louvre? It sounds almost too good to be true, and probably is. A Swiss-based organization calling […]
This past July, I had the privilege of being one of the keynote speakers at the Secular Student Alliance’s annual convention in Columbus, Ohio. I’ve been promising video, but until […]
Julia Galef explains how a “simple and easy mental habit” can help you overcome your biases.
What hasn’t been said about Louis C.K.? The New York Times called him a “comedic Quentin Tarantino.” Writing for the Los Angeles Book Review Adam Wilson said he was “television’s […]
The Brooklyn Book Festival took place last weekend, and I still can’t stop thinking about Mary Higgins Clark. She’s a GILF, a grandmother I’d like to “Friend,” and leave inside […]
While there are workers that play solitaire as a distraction from work, some businesses find that employees who are allowed to play certain games at work end up performing better.
Fed up with the banking system, one small business owner decided to start his own bank that pays out interest in his store’s goods.
Uniqlo, a Japanese basics retailer, is looking to expand beyond its 800 stores in Japan and take over a share of the American clothing market.
One reporter took to using a variety of time-saving apps that found her rides and hired personal assistants, but she found something greater at stake than the cost.
Dr. Joachim Kohn has devoted his life to research and now it’s paying off. He’s creating new ways to regrow body parts for veterans injured in war.
I’m surprised to still be writing about blasphemy laws, but it seems the idea just won’t die. At the United Nations this week, the elected leaders of newly democratic Egypt […]