Sickweather uses social media posts that mention sickness to create a geographical “illness map” so that users can navigate their way around potential “storm activity.”
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Last week I received an email asking me to appear on a radio show called ‘The Yoga of Money.’ After listing their street cred with high-end instructors who’ve guested on […]
Sasha Abramsky argues that poverty today is a symptom of profound levels of inequality.
In his Mentor Workshop Jonathon Keats looks at how to ask naïve questions, how to invert perceptions, how to combine incompatible systems, how to remix metaphors and finally how to pursue paradox.
This week Nielsen unveiled a new ratings system that will measure Twitter activity and conversation around TV shows. Skeptics say tweets may not fully represent the extent of audiences’ involvement.
“We were a little appalled” said lead researcher Dr. Nicole E. Ruedy after the team concluded that unethical behavior can trigger “positive affect, which we term a ‘cheater’s high.'”
Partnerships are always challenging, but that challenge also offers room to create something that you could never have created all alone.
Announced Monday (Oct. 7), the Alliance for Affordable Internet aims to make basic broadband available for less than five percent of monthly income worldwide. In developing countries, the cost can be up to six times as much.
While a writer like Chekhov makes us contemplative and skeptical, a mainstream work of fiction does little to enhance our theory of mind skills, such as our ability to understand complex characters.
What about Earth Science? What about Math? What about all of the social sciences? And indeed, what about technology?
A Swedish inventor has created a watch with a display that counts down to the year, month, day, hour and second that you are going to die.
Gavin Menzies reboots the debate on whether Chinese explorers had detailed knowledge of the Western Hemisphere long before Columbus set sail.
The Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences awarded the 84-year-old Higgs, along with Francois Englert, 80, of Belgium, a Nobel Prize in physics for their work in the discovery of the Higgs boson, the subatomic particle that helps explain the very structure of the universe.
In today’s net-enabled knowledge economy, simply being a data dispenser or an information source for clients is no longer enough. Because the internet is so readily available and easy to […]
Last week Sciencepublished a “sting operation” that runs the risk of tarnishing the entire phenomenon of open access publishing, however the paper is only representative of a tiny and very […]
Is any artist linked inseparably with an article of clothing as René Magritte and the bowler hat? Whether raining down from the sky or with faces obscured by apples, Magritte’s […]
A small but growing group of atheists is working with an NGO that is introducing multidenominational education in a country where over 90 percent of schools are Catholic.
For the first time, scientists were able to get “inside” Einstein’s brain, using a new technique that allowed them to detail Einstein’s corpus callosum, “the brain’s largest bundle of fibers that connects the two cerebral hemispheres and facilitates interhemispheric communication.”
I think it would be really good if nonscientists learned enough so they could come out and make these arguments for the scientists.
Some rituals might be more effective than others in creating the right mindset for creativity, but there is “no one way to get things done.
When people use plastic to pay for food, they make more impulse-based purchases, like ice cream, donuts and chips, compared to those who pay with cash, as I wrote here […]
The northern Spanish city of 180,000 has used an $11 million European Union grant to install technology that has transformed it into a “smart city” model for other municipalities.
A journalistic investigation reveals that Russia’s FSB security service plans to monitor all online and telephonic communication for all athletes and spectators during the 2014 Winter Olympics. One expert says it will be like “Prism on steroids.”
In 1837, the Royal Danish Society sponsored an essay contest, asking participants to tackle the following question: Are the source and foundation of morals to be looked for in an […]
A secondary school in Hangzhou is one of several throughout China that have implemented rules designed to keep teens’ focus on the books and off each other. They have been met with outrage from social media users.
How can the ethics of compromise and confrontation, as practiced in Washington, be improved?
If you’re a cartography nerd, you’re probably also a bit of an election geek. Because nothing beats election night on TV. Exit polls, voting patterns and the results of previous […]
Hopefully you don’t feel like time is slipping away. It is how you use your finite time that counts!
Scientists can be harsh film critics, as evidenced by Neil deGrasse Tyson’s recent evisceration of the film Gravity on Twitter.
So here’s some savvy conservative commentary on Saturday Night Live’s hilarious fake promo for the new season of the HBO hit Girls. Introducing a needed note of realism into the show is the new […]