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We don’t think or exist in empty space; we need nourishment from the earth, literally, to live and create.
Astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson is giving the late Carl Sagan a fitting tribute by hosting a new 13-part docu-series called “Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey” on FOX.
The aptly-named Pee Analyzer sends results to an RFID card that’s given to the patron at the start of his evening in exchange for his car keys.
Finnish company Uniqul will soon release a system that allows participants to pay for their purchases simply by looking into a camera. Facial recognition software connects them to their bank account.
Detroit, once America’s fifth-largest city, has filed for bankruptcy. At its hight in 1950, the city was home to more than 1.5 million. Today, it has shrunk to 700,000 residents.
A baby was born soon that is half Hot Chick and half Inbred German. Hooray!
“Demand has to shift from external demand to internal demand, one way or another, if the economy is to continue growing,” said Christian Murck, president of the American Chamber of Commerce in China.
My points are modest in what they are trying to prove, or they would be if many people weren’t entirely immodest in what they refuse to discuss.
Using social media to participate in faraway religious gatherings is now officially grounds for the granting of “indulgences”, or time off a purgatory sentence given for confessed or forgiven sins.
The Norwegian prison system believes that taking revenge on prisoners for their crimes, by taking away their rights, is counterproductive to the more important goal of rehabilitation.
You know those nature documentaries, the ones where hungry polar bears risk their lives attacking dangerous walruses, or starving lions put their lives on the line attacking fierce horned cape […]
Fast food giant McDonald’s is on track to sell its 300 billionth hamburger soon, but the company’s global dominance has contrasted sharply with its recent attempt to justify paying low wages.
We are in need of tools to help us truly examine our own attitudes.
Here is the view from Saturn. Earth is the brighter of the two spots in the image.
There is a growing realization that weather modification projects are not only possible, but could also be an affordable solution to climate change.
“I’ll never look like the women with beautiful bodies in the glossy magazines.” Right. You won’t. Because they don’t. This wonderful photo compilation by a model generously and compassionately reveals […]
Statistics don’t tell the whole story. Be wary of anyone who claims that they do.
“Artists don’t have families,” the mysterious Warner Dax tells confused painter Daniel at their first meeting in the new film The Time Being. Dax (played by film and theater legend […]
A new artificial intelligence has proven more effective than human engineers at regulating Internet traffic, say researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
A new study challenges the notion that sex addiction is a legitimate mental disease by showing that the brains of diagnosed individuals do not respond abnormally to images of sexual content.
Colorado State University psychology professor Ann Cleary believes a feature of our memory sometimes causes us to believe we are familiar with places or situations we have never visited or experienced.
Neuroscience provides a chemical explanation for why some people are extroverted — seeking constant company, novelty, and thrills — and why others prefer solitude, routine, and serious talk.
The influence of women in a man’s life, from mother to wife to daughter, is likely to make him more generous, according to surveys of the male population and controlled laboratory studies.
Ideas from modern philosophy hold up better to scrutiny than does Buddhism.
To Orthodox Jews, eruvin are a crucial component to their faith. To everybody else, it is as if they didn’t even exist
A medical researcher at Imperial College London has created a smart knife which can tell doctors within three seconds if a group of tissue is cancerous or not, making biopsies possible during operations.
Recent studies have validated the essentially one-sided story that popular vitamin supplements are associated with high incidents of cancer, heart disease and death.
A pair of French researchers have discovered a virus of record-breaking size and mysterious genetic make up. Only seven percent of its genetic code matches that in existing databases.
A new review of 21 hunter-gather societies indicates that competition for territory may drive conflict, and that when territory is not up for grabs, widespread aggression generally does not occur.