This month’s buzz award was won by Google’s secretive Project Glass, a concept in development by Google X Lab that promises to replace our smartphones with augmented reality glasses. It’s […]
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This week, the first orders of the $25 Raspberry Pi computer began shipping. Its designers expect a plethora of new technology as a result—and a new generation of programmers.
From Richard Branson, who began his storied career as a magazine editor, to the Columbian Journalism School, which boasts 40 start ups launched by former students, the two fields are closely related.
As we approach Earth Day, I’ve had some interesting thoughts about the science vs. religion, materialism vs. spirituality debate. Being a spiritual teacher myself, I generally tend to feel more […]
A study conducted between 1959 and 1964 involving 350 children found that around 4th grade our tendency to daydream and wonder declines sharply. In other words, Picasso was right: “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.”
Online education only seems to know two markets these days. Whether you look at companies who offer solutions for individual or lifelong learners, but also in the K-12 space and […]
Dreams of a better Internet have evaporated, says Alexis Madrigal. How did we become contented with the same basic apps, all modified to fit ever-smaller niche groups?
What’s the Latest Development? By combining advances in the fields of electromagnetism and computing, researchers at UT Dallas have created a cellphone that can see through walls, aiding humans in all sorts […]
A new high-tech pen set to be tested in the nation’s second-largest school district encourages more collaborative learning by engaging students directly with teachers’ notes.
A couple of weeks ago there was a bit of an online hoo-ha in my adopted homeland. Singapore’s social media was ablaze (well not quite ablaze but there was definitely […]
Across Silicon Valley, companies like Google and Facebook are waking up and realizing that the future of the Internet is no longer taking place on the desktop or laptop – […]
In a post last May, entitled The First Trillionaires Will Make Their Fortunes in Space, we speculated about how the future explorers of space will be chasing unimaginable riches: As Peter Diamandis […]
Things have been going pretty good for AQAP of late. The group appears to be gaining recruits both from inside Yemen and abroad and it is taking and holding more […]
You don’t need to rely on our “top heavy, doctor and hospital-centric” system to take control of your own health. Dr. Mark Hyman says self-care is the key to being a healthy person today.
The still life, or, as the French would say, “nature morte,” died sometime around the middle of the 20th century, despite modern art’s attempts to resuscitate the genre into Cubism […]
A couple weeks back, I wrote a post for the Economisttrying to get my head around the circumstances in which tax deductions and credits, and tax cuts generally, do and […]
The Space Studies Institute has drawn up a working list of the obstacles we must overcome if we are ever to live permanently in space. The effects of partial gravity are high on the list.
Everyone’s favorite astrophysicist, Neil deGrasse Tyson, has put forward a bold new vision for American space exploration, defending budget increases as a solution to a struggling economy.
After approving the flight readiness review at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, NASA is moving forward with plans to launch the first private rendez-vous with the ISS.
Facing deep budget cuts in 2013, the space agency is casting a wider net when it comes to getting new ideas. So if you have a novel thought on getting to Mars cheaply, speak up.
One of the world’s five most powerful supercomputers has modeled the structure of the known Universe, giving scientists fresh data on mysteries like the distribution of dark matter.
[Warning: Long post ahead] Yesterday I took the ACT college entrance exam for the first time. At age 44. It all started with Ira Socol’s blog post, which argued that […]
The brain is a complex and demanding machine. Given the amount of resources required to run the average brain, it’s no surprise that it takes a few shortcuts when it […]
Bistra Milovansky chases inspiration for a living. The Bulgarian immigrant and self-described “holistic lawyer” can often be found doing business from a hammock in Costa Rica, working on her laptop […]
The WikiLeaks founder has released a half-hour interview with Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, a well-known Middle East figure who has not given an interview to the West in six years.
What is the Big Idea? Samir N. Kapadia’s career in Washington D. C. seemed routine in comparison to the exciting jobs his friends had in India, a surging nation in […]
Van Jones told The New York Times that Glenn Beck pushed him out of a job and his advocacy organization pushed Beck out of one. “Now we’re both irrelevant!” he […]
As I’ve argued on climate change, localizing the issue is one way to overcome the polarization that has paralyzed national-level action. And this strategy holds not just for climate, but […]
Two exclusively online media sources have won Pulitzer Prizes for journalistic reporting, effectively ending the divide between old and new media. We are all one, but is that a good thing?
So the final issue in my class in PUBLIC POLICY this semester is HIGHER EDUCATION. Here are some controversial propositions generated from papers I’ve just read from the class. I’m […]